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Review of Jupiter Ascending (2015)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 06 Feb 2015

Jupiter Ascending suffers from stupid. And deja vu. And a lack of discipline…

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Review of Black or White (2015)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 02 Feb 2015

Binder's script is a big-screen soap opera, which he attempts to offset with often out-of-place humor…

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Review of Spare Parts (2015)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 16 Jan 2015

It's these moments that elevate American Sniper beyond a jingoistic refrain and into a relevant reminder of the sacrifice of war, even to its…

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Review of Boyhood (2014)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 02 Jan 2015

It's a film you can't stop watching. Until it ends. And even then you wish Boyhood was only the beginning of an extraordinary work in progress…

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Review of Boyhood (1951)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 02 Jan 2015

It's a film you can't stop watching. Until it ends. And even then you wish Boyhood was only the beginning of an extraordinary work in progress…

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Review of Unbroken (2014)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 24 Dec 2014

Angelina Jolie directs her second film with a surprising amount of confidence considering the scale of this war epic…

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Review of Into the Woods (2014)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 24 Dec 2014

Marshall has always had grand visions for his musicals onscreen, and he fleshes out the stage production of Into the Woods to extraordinary…

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Review of Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 19 Dec 2014

What began as a fun and unique high-concept comedy with 2006's Night at the Museum is by this third installment bereft of life and creativity…

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Review of Wild (2014)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 19 Dec 2014

The powerful drama stars Reese Witherspoon in her strongest performance since her Oscar-winning turn as June Carter Cash in 2005's Walk the Line…

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Review of Bad Santa (2003)

By Christopher Borrelli (29) for Toledo Blade (302) on 14 Dec 2014

Bad Santa stays cheerfully acerbic right to the end, and so the film s glacial warming and glimpses of heart take on even more of an unmistakable…

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Review of Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 11 Dec 2014

Frankly, there isn't anything in Exodus we haven't seen before by DeMille and on a grander and more stirring scale…

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Review of Enchanted (2007)

By Christopher Borrelli (29) for Toledo Blade (302) on 10 Dec 2014

Amy Adams is the reason to see Enchanted, the only reason, but she is so good and committed to a role most actress would play with a knowing…

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Review of Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 26 Nov 2014

[The milm features] laugh-out-loud profane and edgy R-rated humor that isn't to everyone's taste, a cast having fun with it all, and the surprisingly…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 21 Nov 2014

Mockingjay - Part 1 is just big enough of a story that, even as a two-parter, the film feels substantial and justifiably halved…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

By Christopher Borrelli (29) for Toledo Blade (302) on 16 Nov 2014

It's the most moving and inventive live action children's film in years (and therefore, just as magical for adults, if not more)…

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Review of Birdman (2015)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 14 Nov 2014

Regardless of his connection to the role, Keaton is transformative and mesmerizing, altering in moments almost every audience preconception…

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Review of Dumb and Dumber To (2014)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 14 Nov 2014

Dumb and Dumber To is comedy by committee, and the script plays like it; gags pile up, as if each subsequent draft merely added to the joke…

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Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 14 Nov 2014

Regardless of his connection to the role, Keaton is transformative and mesmerizing, altering in moments almost every audience preconception…

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Review of Big Hero 6 (2014)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 07 Nov 2014

Big Hero 6 doesn't set new animation standards, though it's easy to get lost gawking at the lively, colorful pastiche of sci-fi futures in…

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Review of Nightcrawler (2014)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 31 Oct 2014

Nightcrawler is a scathing Network-like satire dressed as a creepy thriller…

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