Out in Theaters: HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2
Robinson, newcomer Adam Scott and even Corddry give it their all - and do manage to cull some immature laughs with their frequent, obviously improvised riffing - but it's just…
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Out in Theaters: MCFARLAND USA
That isn't to say that it doesn't actually work though. In fact, McFarland USA can be downright rousing, with Antônio Pinto's soaring eagle score (complimented by Terry Stacey's flag-brandishing cinematography) borderline…
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Out in Theaters: WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS
The ensuing comedy peters between the deadpan and the slapstick, with comic zingers often slipping under the radar matched by physical comedy - like Nick and Deacon taking to the…
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Out in Theaters: FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
At the screening I attended, they distributed Fifty Shades fashioned blindfolds before the showing. You wouldn't be worse off wearing it during the film.
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Out in Theaters: KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE
There are a few notable sequences that feature spotty CGI work (Eggsy's mid-air, knife-tipped shoe stab makes him look like a plastic action figure) but in the center of Kingsman…
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Out in Theaters: LEVIATHAN
This begs the question: is Zvyagintsev's film a condemnation of his country? According to his own statements, no. "I am deeply convinced that, whatever society each and every one of…
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Out in Theaters: JUPITER ASCENDING
What is truly visionary in terms of set production, lavish costumery and creature design results in something totally and tonally defunct in the story department. As Eddie Redmayne greedily dismantles…
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Sundance Review: RESULTS
Andrew Bujalski earned an earnest little following out of Austin, Texas from his efforts in building up the mumblecore scene but his star has never shined brighter than it did two festival seasons ago with the debut of his offbeat docu-comedy Computer Chess. Expanding on that last project – which used a blend of professionals...
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Sundance Review: MISTRESS AMERICA
Noah Baumbach again arrives in auspicious fashion, delivering a fast-talking farcical bumblebee of a film whose honey is sweet and sting is bruising. It’s as much a diatribe about the fickle nature of youth as it is a pure slapstick comedy, featuring a humdinger of a hipster prophet in the form of a footloose Greta...
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Sundance Review: LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT
Director Rodrigo García claimed two themes interested him most in his articulation of Jesus’ untold 40 day fast in the desert. The first: the primordial idea of how a boy becomes a man, a step that Garcia contents happens “with or without his father’s help of permission.” The second theme surrounds the notion of creationism,...