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Review of Stay (2014)

By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 18 Mar 2014

A spring-autumn romance that comes with side helpings of local colour and melodramatic backstory…

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Review of Catch That Kid (2004)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 17 Mar 2014

The children are engaging yet the script and direction are not, which leaves the thing to get all bogged down in its own derivative mechanics…

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Review of Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)

By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 14 Mar 2014

This colour-drunk, sumptuous late Tang Dynasty (928 AD) drama is huge on spectacle but as devoid of delight as a Cecil B. DeMille biblical epic…

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Review of Need for Speed (2014)

By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 14 Mar 2014

Every stage of the race and chase is announced on a webcast conducted by the secret impresario of the illegal De Leon race, a billionaire car…

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Review of Enemy (2014)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 13 Mar 2014

Shot before the Canadian director made the major-studio, suburban-vigilante drama Prisoners, Enemy operates on a level of carefully calibrated…

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Review of March of the Penguins (2005)

By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 10 Mar 2014

Parents of young children should be warned: Here's a family-values film that won't be much fun for the whole family…

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Review of Conspiracy Theory (1997)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 08 Mar 2014

With a plot that thickens like congealed stew, this movie about a harmless nutbar, an attorney and a cabal can leave you lost in banality…

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Review of Creepshow (1982)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 07 Mar 2014

King's stories are nothing special, and with the exception of the final entry, nothing in the film is particulary scary…

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Review of Hostage (2005)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 06 Mar 2014

On the plus side, bloated narratives make for a busy action star, and Bruce is quite the workaholic on this outing, clearly eager to rekindle…

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Review of Son of God (2014)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 27 Feb 2014

So yes, if you’ve seen The Bible, you’ve already seen most of Son of God – but if there’s one story where spoilers just don’t apply,…

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Review of Christine (1983)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 26 Feb 2014

Adapted from the Stephen King killer car novel, this John Carpenter film is more like an assembly line vehicle than a customised job, but is…

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Review of Big Daddy (1999)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 26 Feb 2014

The film lacks the moronic consistency that graces the Sandlerian oeuvre at its most pristine…

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Review of Wild Things (1998)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 23 Feb 2014

This picture breaks through the limits and goes way beyond the pale -- it seems to enjoy irking us for the sheer hell of it…

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Review of Shorts (2009)

By Jennie Punter (195) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 20 Feb 2014

Rodriguez, is a hack in the best sense of the term, often serving as producer, director, writer, shooter and composer – all of which come…

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Review of 3 Days to Kill (2014)

By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 20 Feb 2014

3 Days to Kill is a comic variation on the Taken movies, which Besson also co-wrote and produced, starring Liam Neeson as a daughter-rescuing spy…

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Review of The Wind Rises (2013)

By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 20 Feb 2014

The work is more muted than Miyazaki’s more fantastical films, but visually complex and gorgeous, from the rustic mountain scenes to the…

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Review of Pompeii (2014)

By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 20 Feb 2014

No doubt the audiences in the Coliseum would offer a thumbs-up to the scale of the destruction, though even they might have had some quibbles…

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Review of Tim's Vermeer (2013)

By James Adams (62) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 20 Feb 2014

Johannes Vermeer is still a genius at documentary’s end but a fathomable genius, as much scientist as artist, a driven, resourceful creator…

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Review of Courage Under Fire (1996)

By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 19 Feb 2014

At the end of Courage Under Fire, you feel torn between admiration and annoyance with the filmmakers…

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Review of 2 Days in Paris (2007)

By Jennie Punter (195) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 19 Feb 2014

Although she lets her flair for creating funny, sharply written, quirky scenes consume her feature directorial debut, her use of family, friends…

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