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Review of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is much of the same: lots of standing around and talking without much in the way of flair or excitement…

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Review of 12 Years a Slave (2013)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

12 Years a Slave is more of an important film than a great one…

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Review of Best of Enemies (2015)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Anyone interested in political debate and the state of modern television will find Best of Enemies most engrossing…

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Review of The Bling Ring (2013)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

In the United States of Narcissism, you're nothing if you can't see yourself on a screen…

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Review of Bullet to the Head (2012)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Bullet to the Head is an adrenaline-fueled, rip-roaring good time that asks little of audiences while still managing to fill their most basic…

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Review of Birdman (2015)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

The refusal of the camera to cut from scene to scene despite the film taking place over days of rehearsal and performances lends the proceedings…

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Review of Keanu (2016)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

[An] excellent cast papers over some of the film's obvious deficiencies…

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Review of Martian (2015)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Director Ridley Scott and screenwriter Drew Goddard have managed to turn a series of math equations into exciting filmed entertainment…

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Review of Love & Friendship (2016)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Wry and witty, Love & Friendship is one of the funniest films of the year, a costume comedy for the ages…

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Review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Wildly overstuffed and oddly slapdash, filled with characters and sequences that serve little purpose other than to set up a 'cinematic universe…

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Review of Hail, Caesar! (2016)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Instant-classic Coen comedy comments upon, and celebrates, the studio system…

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Review of American Hustle (2013)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

American Hustle is about life as a performance, the ways in which we perceive ourselves and wish to be perceived by others…

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Review of Jack Reacher (2012)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

This hard-charging action flick, based on the bestselling series of novels by Lee Child, is a throwback to the tough-nosed crime dramas of…

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Review of Ex Machina (2015)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Alex Garland's Ex Machina uses a compelling, well-contained story to examine society's growing anxieties, something he's made a habit of doing…

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Review of Nightcrawler (2014)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

What's fascinating about this movie is the way in which writer/director Dan Gilroy treats Bloom…

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Review of The Transporter Refueled (2015)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

The Transporter: Refueled contains the single most redundant moment I've ever seen committed to film…

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Review of Identity Thief (2013)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Though occasionally funny and filled with amusing bit-performances Identity Thief's deeply unlikable co-protagonist stops this would-be buddy…

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Review of John Wick (2014)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

John Wick is the platonic ideal of a disposable action movie…

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Review of The Trip to Italy (2014)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Given the excellence of Coogan and Brydon's back and forth, the generally lame nature of The Trip to Italy is all the more disappointing…

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Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

You've probably never seen The Scottish Play done quite like this…

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