Archive | Movie Reviews
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Movie review: Steven Soderbergh reaches great heights with first action film ‘Haywire’
If director Steven Soderbergh is to be believed, he'll be retiring from his filmmaking career after three more films, and audiences will certainly notice the loss of one of America's most diverse and ambitious cinematic minds.
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Movie review: “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
If you’re thinking of seeing the much-talked-about spy movie “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” that just opened because you like James Bond, you might want to head in the other direction and try another spy movie. Maybe the one with a certain prominent member of the Church of Scientology.
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Movie review: ‘Contraband’ smuggles few thrills into theaters
January is the worst month of the year. Everybody gets post-Christmas blues, school starts back up and there are no good movies in theaters. That means for one month, empty theaters echo with the calls for something good to be released.
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Movie review: ‘Protocol’ brings thrills, taxes suspension of disbelief
From the fuse lit dynamite to the infamous theme song, viewers feel a chill of anticipation. Maybe it is the video sequences that eventually play out later in the movie or maybe it is that the audience knows this is another JJ Abrams production, but this is just the intro of the movie.
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Movie review: War horse too sensitive for setting
There are two types of Steven Spielberg movies. There are the escapist-genre films filled with spectacle, and there are the serious dramas that the Oscars adore.
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Movie review: ‘Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ lives up to pre-release hype
About a year ago, the teaser trailer for "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" left audience members in a state of trance. Its crosscutting, jabbing images juxtaposed with a cover of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" summed up the film in less than two minutes.
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Movie review: Latest ‘Sherlock Holmes’ installment heavy on action, light on everything else
In "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows," director Guy Ritchie gives viewers another dose of comedic adventurer Sherlock Holmes. The movie features returning actors Robert Downey, Jr. (Holmes), Jude Law (Watson) and Rachel McAdams (Irene Adler).
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Movie review: ‘Ghost Protocol’ a fun, flashy thrill and best of the series
Film series usually start to show their age after about three movies. The plots get too thick, the action too flashy and the leads too wrinkly.
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Movie review: David Fincher breathes fire into ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’
While tonally speaking, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is indeed the self-proclaimed "feel bad movie of Christmas" it says it is, it certainly isn't so because of its quality.