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Review of Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero (2016)

By Christopher Kompanek (18) for Washington Post (9,851) on 11 May 2016

Teetering precariously between satire and base humor, “Jimmy Vestvood” squanders opportunities for both…

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Review of Velvet Goldmine (1998)

By Richard Harrington (181) for Washington Post (9,851) on 10 May 2016

The film is a visually beautiful but clumsily plotted mishmash of Citizen Kane, Eddie and the Cruisers and England's last overblown movie musical,…

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Review of The Commitments (1991)

By Hal Hinson (447) for Washington Post (9,851) on 10 May 2016

Alan Parker's sexy, hilarious, exuberantly energetic new film, The Commitments, has so much rhythmic juice that it's nearly impossible to stay…

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Review of The Postman (1997)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 09 May 2016

Director-star Kevin Costner falls head over heels in love with himself in this nihilistic, post-apocalyptic clunker about a loner who becomes…

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Review of Outrage (2009)

By Dan Zak (21) for Washington Post (9,851) on 06 May 2016

A crisp, efficient, sometimes petty but often infuriating documentary about alleged gay politicians who actively campaign and vote against gay rights…

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Review of Envy (2004)

By Sara Gebhardt (15) for Washington Post (9,851) on 05 May 2016

With all the dog dung in Envy, it's almost too easy to generalize that it stinks. But it does, unfortunately, despite the big-name actors in its cast…

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Review of Francofonia (2015)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 04 May 2016

The director Alexander Sokurov is a visual virtuoso…

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Review of The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 04 May 2016

The Man Who Knew Infinity tells a great story. It’s just that it’s a little too by-the-book to make anything other than a so-so movie…

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Review of The Family Fang (2016)

By Stephanie Merry (410) for Washington Post (9,851) on 04 May 2016

Bateman does an effective job directing the movie, which is based on a novel by Kevin Wilson (with a script by playwright David Lindsay-Abaire),…

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Review of Mothers and Daughters (2016)

By Stephanie Merry (410) for Washington Post (9,851) on 04 May 2016

Somehow channeling the tone of both a Lifetime movie and an after-school special, Mothers and Daughters shambles into theaters oozing schlock…

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Review of Phantom of the Theatre (2016)

By Mark Jenkins (515) for Washington Post (9,851) on 04 May 2016

The movie is carried by sweeping widescreen images, dynamic camera movements, impressive special effects and a color scheme that contrasts…

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Review of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

By Stephen Hunter (927) for Washington Post (9,851) on 04 May 2016

Surely the dullest of Hollywood's many comic-book-derived summer movies, Silver Surfer is drearier than corn dying in the Iowa sun, slower…

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Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 03 May 2016

Crisply photographed, thoughtfully acted and often refreshingly amusing, “Civil War” injects doses of much-needed fun into a genre of filmmaking…

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Review of The Extra Man (2010)

By Sean O\\\\\\\'Connell (11) for Washington Post (9,851) on 03 May 2016

Swifter comedic timing and a clearer narrative thread might have helped center this peculiar adaptation of Jonathan Ames's 1998 novel of the…

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Review of The Rocker (2008)

By Stephen Hunter (927) for Washington Post (9,851) on 01 May 2016

The movie is so tepid and inoffensive: It reminded me of a '70s Disney live-action product, with clean-scrubbed hippies like Johnny Whitaker…

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Review of Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992)

By Desson Thomson (1,673) for Washington Post (9,851) on 01 May 2016

This is fun and there are few kids who won't have a good time of it. But it's no Honey, I Shrunk…

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Review of Scary Movie (2000)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 01 May 2016

The only thing that's truly scary about the movie is the escalating vulgarity of the latest in a string of skanky comedies by filmmakers determined…

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Review of Tootsie (1982)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 29 Apr 2016

As hilarious as it is touching and tasteful at the same time, Tootsie will offend no one and uplift anyone who watches it…

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Review of The Meddler (2016)

By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 28 Apr 2016

What seems cringe-worthy at first in The Meddler winds up as a warm, forgiving embrace -- of the movie's characters and audience, as well…

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Review of Sin Nombre (2009)

By Dan Zak (21) for Washington Post (9,851) on 28 Apr 2016

An elegant, heartbreaking fable, equal parts Shakespearean tragedy, neo-Western and mob movie but without the pretension of those genres…

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