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Review of Get Him to the Greek (2010)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Sep 2015

Hill, dialing back on the pissy vulgarity of his supporting roles in Knocked Up and Funny People, makes the perfect foil, as passive and impressionable…

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Review of About a Boy (2002)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 26 Sep 2015

Few scenarios are more cliched than the curmudgeonly father-figure who takes in the precocious imp -- irritation in the first two acts, love…

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Review of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Sep 2015

Black's sadistic streak remains as uncomfortable as it ever was, and his direction is very much in the house style of producer Joel Silver…

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Review of Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Sep 2015

The problem is, Hotel Transylvania 2 focuses so intently on parental neuroses—Dracula needs Mavis to remain his little girl and needs his…

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Review of Rock School (2005)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 23 Sep 2015

The kids are great, but when they graduate from Rock School, will the valedictorian be the next Jimmy Page, or the technically proficient lead…

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Review of Stonewall (2015)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Sep 2015

Though it delivers disaster-movie specialist Roland Emmerich’s usual mix of pop iconography, cornball Americana, and conspiracy theory, and…

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Review of Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (2015)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Sep 2015

Ultimately, what makes Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead valuable is the sense it provides of how savage and uncompromising the National Lampoon…

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Review of 99 Homes (2015)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Sep 2015

While its righteous rage is bracing, fans of the filmmaker Bahrani used to be will mourn the subtlety and careful character development of…

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Review of The White Countess (2005)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 21 Sep 2015

As with so many Merchant-Ivory films, The White Countess glides along on restrained, skillful performances and tapestry-rich cinematography,…

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Review of The Pool (2007)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 19 Sep 2015

It's a funny, sweet-natured humanist character piece…

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Review of Office (2015)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Sep 2015

Office is one of the most original and imaginative musicals of the last decade, in spite of Lo Dayu’s largely unremarkable, temp-track-like score…

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Review of Office (2015)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 Sep 2015

Office is one of the most original and imaginative musicals of the last decade, in spite of Lo Dayu’s largely unremarkable, temp-track-like score…

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Review of Captive (2015)

By Benjamin Mercer (70) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 Sep 2015

The leads acquit themselves relatively well here, hinting at the interesting character study that could have been, but by the end the only…

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Review of Black Book (2006)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Sep 2015

In the end, Black Book may be one of the most fun movies ever made about how people basically suck…

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Review of Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Sep 2015

It's hard to film icons like Young as anything BUT icons, but Demme's film gets past the legend, zooming in on Young's aged, heroic face and…

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Review of Black Mass (2015)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Sep 2015

Without an emotional core, a stronger sociological angle, or many visceral thrills, Black Mass more or less limits itself to procedural status…

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Review of Pawn Sacrifice (2015)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Sep 2015

While this movie version of Fischer does indeed suffer from mental health issues that make it difficult for him to form functional human relationships,…

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Review of Stolen (2010)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Sep 2015

Stolen is mildly engaging, inasmuch as it poses a riddle and makes the audience wait for the answer, in the classic mystery mode…

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Review of First Kid (1996)

By John Krewson (24) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Sep 2015

Of course, these movies are supposed to be big, but First Contact is the kind of porky, clumsy thing that would be ignored if it didn't come…

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Review of The Guys (2002)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 Sep 2015

In spite of some affecting moments, the film never quite works. It's too theatrical, perhaps unavoidably…

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