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Review of Dheepan (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 09 Jun 2016

Audiard vividly captures the horrors of not just war, but it's even more destructive aftermath. It will leave you positively shell-shocked…

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Review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 04 Jun 2016

In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, you can take the fab four out of the sewers and into the light of New York City, but too…

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Review of Me Before You (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 03 Jun 2016

Me Before You is a feast for the eyes, whether our doomed lovers are vacationing in Mauritius or trading banalities in Will's castle quarters…

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Review of Tale of Tales (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 03 Jun 2016

Before falling apart in its final reel, Matteo Garrone's imaginative Tale of Tales proves a visually arresting, narratively captivating rendering…

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Review of Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 27 May 2016

A headache inducing ménage of Lewis Carroll's beloved characters tossed into a cacophonous tempest of family squabbles and lessons learned…

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Review of Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 21 May 2016

Seems the committee of five who wrote the script couldn't make lightning strike twice even though they cleverly flip the gender so girls can…

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Review of The Lobster (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 20 May 2016

It's a murky soup of commentary and ideas about modern love and loneliness presented in the most unsettling and imaginative way…

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Review of Love & Friendship (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 20 May 2016

Its multitude of pleasures rest in dialogue rich in wit and mellifluous in structure…

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Review of The Nice Guys (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 20 May 2016

Black strips the Lethal Weapon formula down to its undies and redresses it with moxie and snark…

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Review of Money Monster (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 14 May 2016

George Clooney! Julia Roberts! The pedigree behind the set-in-real-time thriller Money Monster is reason enough to see the movie…

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Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 06 May 2016

Cap has not just saved the world, he's saved a comic book universe from complacency by boldly raising the ante on all who dare follow this…

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Review of The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 01 May 2016

Brown takes a conventional hit-the-high-note approach in telling the story of an unlikely pairing between Ramanujan (Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire)…

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Review of Keanu (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 29 Apr 2016

There's a lot of busyness and action, but what we really crave is a little more time for paws…

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Review of Papa Hemingway in Cuba (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 29 Apr 2016

It turns one of America's larger-than-life icons into a sniveling, paranoid old man, who -- in Sparks' incapable hands -- lacks an ounce of gravitas…

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Review of The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 23 Apr 2016

It is both a sequel and a prequel to 2012's Snow White and the Huntsman, but alas, Snow White wasn't even invited to her own party…

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Review of Sing Street (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 23 Apr 2016

Carney casts a nostalgic glow that never turns into overt sentimentality and hits all the right notes…

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Review of Older Than Ireland (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 22 Apr 2016

The tears -- yours, not theirs -- come in the final moments when talk turns to the deaths of their spouses, close friends and some of their children…

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Review of Green Room (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 22 Apr 2016

Welcome to the spooky, ultra-violent world of writer-director Jeremy Saulnier, as he gets his John Carpenter on by sending his plucky group…

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Review of Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 16 Apr 2016

The first half of the movie is especially fun when each character who enters sparks a deluge of one-liners, battle-of-the-sexes banter or pop-culture…

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Review of The Jungle Book (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 15 Apr 2016

Jon Iron Man Favreau proves emphatically there's no bungle in his Jungle -- just laughs, tears and overwhelming warmth for the talkative critters…

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