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Review of V/H/S/2 (2013)

By Drew Taylor (218) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Jul 2013

V/H/S 2 is a whole lot of fun. We can imagine fans of midnight movies shrieking with delight at some of the sections…

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Review of Killing Season (2013)

By Gabe Toro (98) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Jul 2013

Director Mark Steven Johnson can’t seem to balance a tone here, which is a pity because for the most part he stands back and lets the two…

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Review of Grown Ups 2 (2013)

By Gabe Toro (98) for The Playlist (3,871) on 10 Jul 2013

Basically, it’s a film made for brainless grunts who like to hang out all day making sub-literate jokes about boobs and gays while watching…

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Review of Pawn Shop Chronicles (2013)

By Gabe Toro (98) for The Playlist (3,871) on 10 Jul 2013

It’s all very first draft, with a layer of supernatural permeating the events that suggests added attempts to connect three wildly disparate…

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Review of Pacific Rim (2013)

By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Jul 2013

If your basic movie needs demand a little bit more -- logical premises; interesting, marginally original characters; dialogue that doesn’t…

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Review of Boy (2012)

By Cory Everett (35) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Jul 2013

The momentum from the opening dissipates early and without a real engine pushing the movie foward, it begins to drag...the film is 87 minutes…

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Review of Boy (2010)

By Cory Everett (35) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Jul 2013

The momentum from the opening dissipates early and without a real engine pushing the movie foward, it begins to drag...the film is 87 minutes…

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Review of The Truth About Emanuel (2013)

By Cory Everett (35) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Jul 2013

There are shades of “Lars & the Real Girl” here, but where that film skewed towards dark comedy (which helped temper its outlandish premise),…

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Review of Detachment (2011)

By Cory Everett (35) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Jul 2013

A bizarre, well intentioned mess, at the very least, Detachment is never dull...even as the film is bad, it's compulsively watchable…

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Review of Afternoon Delight (2013)

By Cory Everett (35) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Jul 2013

Afternoon Delight succeeds mainly because although the premise is broad, writer/director Jill Soloway is determined to keep it real…

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Review of Boy (2014)

By Cory Everett (35) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Jul 2013

The momentum from the opening dissipates early and without a real engine pushing the movie foward, it begins to drag...the film is 87 minutes…

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Review of Bachelorette (2012)

By Cory Everett (35) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Jul 2013

With so many elements already in place there may still be a great comedy in there somewhere…

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Review of Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012)

By Cory Everett (35) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Jul 2013

The film may help Downton Abbey fanatics looking to kill a little time in that era but holds little cinematic appeal for the rest of us…

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Review of Boy (2011)

By Cory Everett (35) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Jul 2013

The momentum from the opening dissipates early and without a real engine pushing the movie foward, it begins to drag...the film is 87 minutes…

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Review of Boy (2012)

By Cory Everett (35) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Jul 2013

The momentum from the opening dissipates early and without a real engine pushing the movie foward, it begins to drag...the film is 87 minutes…

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Review of 360 (2012)

By Cory Everett (35) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Jul 2013

If the film had not been afraid to go a little darker (like its sexually frank opening), dig a little deeper, and develop its characters beyond…

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Review of Twixt (2011)

By Cory Everett (35) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Jul 2013

While those looking for a few midnight movie scares will find themselves very disappointed, the film is funny, sometimes intentionally, sometimes not…

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Review of Nobody Walks (2012)

By Cory Everett (35) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Jul 2013

Full of humor and humanity, Nobody Walks is an emotionally complex, acutely observed and sensual film…

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Review of The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 08 Jul 2013

While Felix von Groeningen's film, which centers around a couple whose child is diagnosed with cancer, could easily have strayed into maudlin…

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Review of The Hunt (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 08 Jul 2013

For anyone with even a halfway developed sense of justice The Hunt may prove stressful, frustrating, even enraging, but it’s also an unbelievably…

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