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Review of The Dead Girl (2006)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 19 Jun 2014

The film is mired in gloom, not just sadness, but heaviness…

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Review of The Last Sentence (2012)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 18 Jun 2014

I can't recommend it without reservation, but it's a must-see for those who have followed Mr…

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Review of Jersey Boys (2014)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 18 Jun 2014

Whatever the cause, the movie turns sour when the singers aren't singing…

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Review of Third Person (2014)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 18 Jun 2014

Cold and clever to a fault, like the main character played by Liam Neeson, the movie is based on a fundamental miscalculation—that our desire…

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Review of The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 18 Jun 2014

A new documentary about the life of this producer who put together one of the most remarkable winning streaks in Hollywood history, and followed…

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Review of Striptease (1996)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 17 Jun 2014

This time the filmmakers seem to have forgotten everything they knew, and have endeared themselves only to Ms…

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Review of Wild Wild West (1999)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 15 Jun 2014

Having seen Wild Wild West, a retro-sci-fi Western comedy that tries to get laughs from a double amputee in a steam-powered wheelchair, I must…

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Review of Into the Wild (2007)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 14 Jun 2014

From seductive start to shattering finish, the film is as stirring, entertaining and steadfastly thrilling as it is beautiful…

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Review of The Rover (2014)

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

The Rover, is anything but lively, though it's long on menace, often violent and consistently fascinating…

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Review of How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

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

Gleeful and smart, funny and serious, this sequel surpasses the endearing original with gorgeous animation — a dragon Eden, a dragon scourge,…

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Review of 22 Jump Street (2014)

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

The repetitions are meant as a sort of metajoke, and it works well enough, more often than not, though heightened levels of raunch and chaos…

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Review of The Signal (2014)

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

As I watched the minimal plot unfold at a glacial pace in claustrophobic settings, I found myself wondering where the rest of the movie was…

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Review of Armageddon (1996)

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

How does Armageddon, a movie obsessed with countdowns and countdown clocks, manage to redefine -- downward -- the standard for summer stupidity…

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Review of Armageddon (1998)

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

How does Armageddon, a movie obsessed with countdowns and countdown clocks, manage to redefine -- downward -- the standard for summer stupidity…

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Review of Armageddon (1997)

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

How does Armageddon, a movie obsessed with countdowns and countdown clocks, manage to redefine -- downward -- the standard for summer stupidity…

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Review of Bad Boys II (2003)

By Collin Levey (12) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 05 Jun 2014

Just like Bad Boys, only louder, longer and the stars get paid more…

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Review of Armageddon (1989)

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

How does Armageddon, a movie obsessed with countdowns and countdown clocks, manage to redefine -- downward -- the standard for summer stupidity…

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Review of Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

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

They might also have called it Groundhog Day 2, but that wouldn't have conveyed the film's martial frenzy, its fascinating intricacies or the…

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Review of The Fault in Our Stars (2014)

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

When the time comes for suffering, the pain of watching her is mingled with the pleasure of a performance that transcends contrivance…

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Review of Obvious Child (2014)

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

Yet the heart of the film lies in what it manages to say, without boldface or italics, about how hard it is for Donna, like so many of her…

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