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Review of Detour (2013)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Mar 2013

Dickerson passes on the occasion for existential drama and goes for the race-against-the-clock urgency of an ordinary guy trying to crawl out…

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Review of The Host (2013)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Mar 2013

The Host is a step up from the endless metaphorical lectures and gaping plot holes of Niccol’s last film, In Time, but its muffled emotions,…

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Review of Home of the Brave (2006)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 26 Mar 2013

Whatever its model, the film is assembled from much poorer material, leftover parts of Lifetime movies and well-meaning indie films seen only…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)

By Genevieve Koski (68) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Mar 2013

While Eclipse’s action highs are higher, its expositional lows are lower, particularly during the numerous scenes featuring Lautner…

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Review of Cassandra's Dream (2007)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 23 Mar 2013

Like so many late-period Allens, it leaves behind the feeling that he's made this movie before, but better…

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Review of Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Mar 2013

When the material gets really bad, as it does in the dismal Did You Hear About The Morgans…

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Review of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Mar 2013

Even when caught in a rut, Anderson's obsessive vision still yields many exhilarating surprises…

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Review of Silver Circle (2013)

By Sam Adams (514) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Mar 2013

Like a Rand Paul rally rendered in the style of Grand Theft Auto, Silver Circle engineers the perfect marriage of sub-par animation and sloppy…

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Review of Eden (2013)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Mar 2013

For as studiously as Griffiths avoids cheap exploitation, the film has an overall structure that isn’t as far removed from a Roger Corman…

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Review of Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Mar 2013

Nearly everything that happens in Olympus Has Fallen is ludicrous, yet because the fate of the president and the nation hangs in the balance,…

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Review of The Croods (2013)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Mar 2013

The film itself doesn’t practice what it preaches: From the typically blocky DreamWorks CGI to the emphasis on bruising slapstick over verbal…

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Review of The In-Laws (1979)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 19 Mar 2013

Perhaps the oddest thing about The In-Laws is that it's aimed at an audience old enough to remember not only the original, but also how much…

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Review of Babies (2010)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 19 Mar 2013

If anything, blame the kids: They’re all adorable, roly-poly delights, but the first year of life has its natural limitations…

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Review of Toy Story 3 (2010)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Mar 2013

The film never lets banter, visual gags, or the usual manic kid-flick running about interfere with its more delicately handled thoughts on…

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Review of Rookie of the Year (1993)

By Marah Eakin (3) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Mar 2013

Rookie isn’t a bad movie. It’s also not good…

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Review of I Am Legend (2007)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Mar 2013

While I Am Legend is reasonably absorbing, it can be difficult to focus on the film that actually made it to the screen, instead of the many…

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Review of The Constant Gardener (2005)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Mar 2013

Fiennes is the perfect John Le Carré hero: reserved and sophisticated, possessing the driest of wits, yet deceptively passionate in a way…

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Review of The Call (2013)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 Mar 2013

All that unsavory business aside, the biggest problem with the third act is how the film discards the novelty of its own premise in order to…

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Review of The Call (2013)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 Mar 2013

All that unsavory business aside, the biggest problem with the third act is how the film discards the novelty of its own premise in order to…

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Review of My Amityville Horror (2013)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Mar 2013

Walter has the case down cold and arrives at suitably ambiguous conclusions about terrors both real and suggested, but he gets there through…

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