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Review of Dark Shadows (2012)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 09 May 2012

Amusing, in fits and spurts, and sure to make tons of money, but terribly familiar and fatigued…

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Review of The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 05 May 2012

At a time when the country is engaged in fresh debates about the fragile relationship between privacy and national security, this particular…

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Review of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 04 May 2012

They're stuck with a script, by Ol Parker, that's stuffed with contrivance and cliché, and doggedly repetitive as it tracks its characters…

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Review of First Position (2011)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 04 May 2012

Beneath the jetés and bleeding feet, First Position is about toughness of mind as much as visions of beauty…

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Review of Swordfish (2001)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 03 May 2012

A kind of dirty fairy tale in which people with nasty attitudes inhabit a trash-talking, macho world of fast cars and complaisant women…

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Review of The Avengers (2012)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 02 May 2012

A slow start, a single star performance surrounded by indifferent acting and an onslaught of computer effects that range from seen-it-all-in-Transformers…

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Review of The New Year (2010)

By Steve Dollar (16) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 29 Apr 2012

A star is born in this observant and compassionate drama about a young woman trying to sort her way out of an involuntary limbo in her coastal…

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Review of Public Enemies (2009)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 29 Apr 2012

Marvelously detailed and meticulously crafted, an elegant evocation of Depression-era America and its fascination with crime…

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Review of Stealth (2005)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 28 Apr 2012

The scene where a pilot bails out in Stealth is so over-painted with CGI that it doesn't look as real as the sequence starring Shepard that…

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Review of Bernie (2012)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 25 Apr 2012

Where the movie is at its best is in the comically laconic, straight-to-the-camera remarks offered by Carthage's residents…

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Review of Headhunters (2011)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 25 Apr 2012

A transgenre thriller that glides effortlessly from crisp social commentary through off-kilter comedy to paranoid terror, it's on my short…

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Review of The Five-Year Engagement (2012)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 25 Apr 2012

Sometime around what I guessed to be the one-hour mark in The Five-Year Engagement, I checked my watch and honestly thought the battery had…

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Review of State of Play (2009)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 19 Apr 2012

There's simply too much stuff for a two-hour feature, and three writers, including Tony Gilroy, haven't figured out how to boil it down into…

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Review of Marley (2012)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 18 Apr 2012

The director, Kevin Macdonald, searches for clarity amid the contradictions of Marley's life and reaches no conclusions, but that's a tribute…

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Review of The Lucky One (2012)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 18 Apr 2012

Depending on how you feel about Zac Efron, he is either a sensitive hunk or an inexpressive hunk, but definitely a hunk…

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Review of To the Arctic 3D (2012)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 18 Apr 2012

To the Arctic 3-D is an impassioned plea for action on global warming, and the passion is intensified by the music…

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Review of Love the Hard Way (2003)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 12 Apr 2012

Although Love the Hard Way is saturated with a doomed romanticism that feels more fictitious than real, the actors lend the movie a potency…

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Review of The Lady (2011)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 11 Apr 2012

This time, though, the happy ending plays out in real life, while the screen version falls afoul of a laggardly pace, an earnest tone and a…

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Review of Monsieur Lazhar (2011)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 11 Apr 2012

What makes the film enthralling is the wisdom and grace with which it addresses the twin subjects of grief and healing, and the quiet beauty…

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Review of The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 11 Apr 2012

The initial brilliance of the premise is eventually dulled by illogic, the whole thing proves unmanageable and the filmmakers unmanage their…

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