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Review of Your Sister's Sister (2011)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 01 Jun 2013

Don't be surprised if you find yourself nodding off mid-movie, bored silly by a trio of good actors stuck in a dull scenario about a young…

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Review of Friends with Kids (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 01 Jun 2013

As she did with her first script, the gender-bending 'Kissing Jessica Stein,' Westfeldt goes for something radical and winds up pulling her…

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Review of Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

Its bittersweet conclusion hits you square in the gut…

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Review of ParaNorman (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

The only thing animated about it is the animation, which is so spectacular that you begrudge the script for not being equally inspired…

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Review of The Watch (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

Rote, crass and worst of all, totally laugh-free, it inspires you to exact your own brand of vigilante justice…

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Review of Conviction (2010)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

Conviction' seldom fails to win on appeal…

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Review of The Bourne Legacy (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

No one wanted this. Not even lapsed Christians sought to be Bourne again…

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Review of Avatar (2009)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

Cameron's $300 million baby is nothing but a 5- and 10-cent snore…

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Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

A movie so dark, dank and devoid of coherence that you'd swear it exists only to pillage gullible buckos of their bucks…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

It's just a lot of smoke - literally and figuratively - that evaporates into thin air without meaning or context…

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Review of The Campaign (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

It is meticulously bipartisan in its ridicule, from the right's embrace of God and guns, to the left's disingenuous stance against fat cats…

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Review of The Avengers (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

Joss Whedon empties everything at his reported $225 million disposal to assault the eyes, ears and intelligence with one of the stupidest comic…

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Review of The King's Speech (2010)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

Tom Hooper delves beneath the pomp and circumstance to root out the essence of his characters, while also making them immensely relatable…

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Review of Hanna (2011)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

It's like an amusement park ride operating in the middle of a rave in which The Chemical Brothers provide a no-one-gets-out-alive thrust of…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

It's a fight to the death, as good and evil whip out their wands and cross swords amid the ruins of what used to be the Hogwarts School of…

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Review of Margin Call (2011)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

A Wall Street version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' in which the weak are whisked aside and the alpha dogs stick around long enough to fill their…

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Review of Gomorrah (2008)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

Matteo Garrone doesn't so much reinvent the gangster genre as much as he reimagines it, taking all the usual trimmings and turning them inside out…

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Review of The Hunger Games (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

Lawrence makes Katniss a heroine every bit as strong, fearless and compelling as the patron saint of badass females, Lisbeth Salander…

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Review of The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

The final installment in Christopher Nolan's pitch-black trilogy manages to be both relevant and topical while slavishly adhering to the stodgy…

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Review of Won't Back Down (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

A do-gooder movie so stupid and unoriginal it had to steal its title from a Tom Petty song…

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