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Review of Top Five (2014)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 11 Dec 2014

The film feels freshly minted because the man who made it has such a lively mind and fearless style…

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Review of Zero Motivation (2014)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 11 Dec 2014

Here’s a nice surprise, a zestful, slightly autobiographical debut feature from Israel, written and directed by a woman, Talya Lavie, that…

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Review of Inherent Vice (2014)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 11 Dec 2014

A P.T…

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Review of An Education (2009)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 05 Dec 2014

This tale of an English schoolgirl's hard-won wisdom is thrilling --for the radiance of Carey Mulligan's Jenny, who's wonderfully smart and…

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Review of Maria Full of Grace (2004)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 04 Dec 2014

What we come to care most about in writer-director Joshua Marston's film is how his heroine achieves the state promised by his title, Maria…

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Review of Wild (2014)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 04 Dec 2014

This screen adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s autobiographical best-seller is burdened, out of fidelity to the book, with life lessons and unneeded…

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Review of Venus (2006)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 02 Dec 2014

Since the movie is about desire -- not so much for sex as for the vitality and surprise that sex can provide -- it is also about power…

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Review of Interview with the Assassin (2002)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 02 Dec 2014

Do not read too much into Burger's mockumentary, then; it's just having a lark, poking fun at conspiracy theorists, taking the piss out of…

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Review of Valkyrie (2008)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 29 Nov 2014

Once the plotters plunge into action, though, Valkyrie becomes both an exciting thriller and a useful history lesson…

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Review of Bolt (2008)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 28 Nov 2014

Taken on its own terms, Bolt the movie certainly makes the cut…

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Review of The Imitation Game (2014)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 26 Nov 2014

It’s a marvelous story about science and humanity, plus a great performance by Benedict Cumberbatch, plus first-rate filmmaking and cinematography,…

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Review of Penguins of Madagascar (2014)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 26 Nov 2014

The story line, a sequence of very loosely connected events, sustains a state of almost pure brainlessness with its indifference to dramatic…

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Review of The Imitation Game (1980)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 26 Nov 2014

It’s a marvelous story about science and humanity, plus a great performance by Benedict Cumberbatch, plus first-rate filmmaking and cinematography,…

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Review of The Babadook (2014)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 26 Nov 2014

As a director, working with actors, she may have drawn on her own experience acting in features and TV; whatever her method, she has come up…

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Review of Downfall (2004)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 25 Nov 2014

From the very first seconds a viewer believes totally in Downfall…

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

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 20 Nov 2014

As smart as this film is about image-making in the age of all-pervasive media, the theme threatens to wear thin until Katniss comes to a new…

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Review of National Gallery (2014)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 20 Nov 2014

National Gallery isn’t just about a museum full of famous pictures…

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Review of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 20 Nov 2014

Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night. (What a terrific title…

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Review of The Homesman (2014)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 13 Nov 2014

Never mind the awfulness of the three madwomen being relentlessly mad, or the silliness of their journey’s logistics; not for a moment do…

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Review of Rosewater (2014)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 13 Nov 2014

The movie has a couple of problems. The lesser one arises from its opaqueness about the involvement of Mr…

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