Category: Reviews
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Aloha (2015)
Aloha is an incoherent mess that shows a distressing decline in quality from earlier Crowe films.
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Tomorrowland (2015)
Tomorrowland features good performances and offers the promise of movie spectacle and awe, but doesn’t deliver on that promise in the end.
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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
With thrilling action and great visual flair, Mad Max: Fury Road is a welcome return to this world by George Miller and the movie to beat this summer.
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Exodus: Gods And Kings (2014)
Exodus: Gods and Kings has a few visuals that are impressive, but it’s a generic sword and sandals epic that wastes most of its impressive cast.
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Ex Machina (2015)
Ex Machina is great, slow-building tech thriller with a chilling conclusion to the story and features three up and coming actors.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Age of Ultron brings more action and character and story, but it’s all weighed down a bit too much by having to service so many characters.
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While We’re Young (2015)
Noah Baumbach is a director who tends to run hot or cold for me. I have not seen all of his filmography, having missed out on his mid-2000s works The Squid and the Whale and Margot at the Wedding. Kicking and Screaming, considered to be a 90s classic, did nothing…
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
I’m not quite sure why, but I didn’t realize that Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion was a satire until nearly the end of the film. Perhaps it was just that I had no real knowledge of it heading into viewing it other than the basic plot, that it was…
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Son of a Gun (2014)
There have been quite a few good-to-great gritty Aussie crime dramas that have come out the last few years. Following in the line of The Square (2008), Animal Kingdom (2010), and The Rover (2014), Son of a Gun is a well-told tale of crime from a first time director, Julius…
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