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Review of Tai Chi Hero (2012)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Grid (42) on 25 Apr 2013

Like its predecessor, Tai Chi Hero is continually hampered by its thin characters and badly convoluted narrative but at least this time there…

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Review of My Awkward Sexual Adventure (2012)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Grid (42) on 25 Apr 2013

The rare sex farce that is ultimately more adult than it is adolescent…

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Review of The Company You Keep (2012)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Grid (42) on 25 Apr 2013

What with a cast that includes Robert Redford, Julie Christie, Nick Nolte, and Susan Sarandon, this might've been the most star-studded production…

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Review of Love, Marilyn (2013)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Grid (42) on 03 Apr 2013

Garbus' use of Monroe's own words are plenty wrenching at times but they don't add much to our collective understanding of either the enduring…

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Review of Evil Dead (2013)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Grid (42) on 03 Apr 2013

For all of his movie's predictability, director Fede Alvarez finds several ways to increase the creep factor, largely by playing the scares…

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Review of Stoker (2013)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Grid (42) on 01 Apr 2013

As fun as it can be to play this game of spot-the-reference, the movie's too besotted with its own cleverness and stylistic flourishes to generate…

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Review of The Host (2013)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Grid (42) on 29 Mar 2013

Director Andrew Niccol is completely unable to add any depth or elegance to Meyer's pedestrian storytelling and thin characters…

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Review of The Host (2015)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Grid (42) on 29 Mar 2013

Director Andrew Niccol is completely unable to add any depth or elegance to Meyer's pedestrian storytelling and thin characters…

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Review of G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Grid (42) on 28 Mar 2013

The glib humour gives the endeavour an air of self-parody, but not always the fun kind…

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Review of Beyond the Hills (2012)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Grid (42) on 28 Mar 2013

Such is the rigorous and high-minded nature of Romanian cinema that even a real-life exorcism story can inspire something loftier than a horror movie…

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Review of Wake in Fright (1971)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Grid (42) on 28 Mar 2013

This tale of sun-baked savagery has lost little of its audacity or ferocity while it languished unseen…

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Review of Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Grid (42) on 21 Mar 2013

Olympus Has Fallen comes off like an entirely unironic attempt to revive the '80s cycle of let's-restart-the-Vietnam-War movies and home-turf…

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Review of No (2012)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Grid (42) on 15 Mar 2013

No continually impresses for its slyness and savvy -- rarely has such an eyesore been so worth watching…

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Review of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Grid (42) on 15 Mar 2013

Though the best stretches flirt with the mix of cruel-edged comedy and abject despair that was once the forte of the Farrelly brothers, it…

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Review of Blood Pressure (2012)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Grid (42) on 15 Mar 2013

Director Sean Garrity fashions something tense, steely, and affecting out of a premise that might've yielded an erotic fantasy if the events…

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Review of Dead Man Down (2013)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Grid (42) on 08 Mar 2013

Dead Man Down's script falls prey to its own downward trajectory, its unwieldy array of cheap contrivances and half-witted switcheroos amounting…

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Review of Snitch (2013)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Grid (42) on 06 Mar 2013

Snitch's storyline has distinct echoes of Breaking Bad but it's hard to say where to place it on the proverbial TV dial due to its sometimes…

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Review of Identity Thief (2013)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Grid (42) on 06 Mar 2013

Hollywood's most skilled and fearless physical comedian since Jim Carrey in his '90s heyday, Melissa McCarthy is so dogged in her efforts to…

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Review of Tower (2012)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Grid (42) on 06 Mar 2013

A confident statement of purpose by one of Toronto's most gifted young filmmakers…

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Review of Passion (2013)

By Adam Nayman (350) for The Grid (42) on 22 Jan 2013

In the end, Passion feels like a bit of a private joke -- one where the set-up is a little bit funnier than the punchline…

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