Before Midnight Review: Saving the Best for Last
by Joel D Amos atBefore Midnight continues the romantic linguistic adventures started in 1995 with Before Sunrise. Audiences fell in love with Ethan...
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Movie Reviews
Epic Review: Fight for the Forest
by Joel D Amos atEpic arrives with the most ambitious of names for a film. That moniker is usually reserved for wide-spanning motion pictures whose scope...
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Fast and Furious 6 Review: Need for Speed
by Joel D Amos atWhat is so fantastically fun about Fast and Furious 6 is that it manages to cull what we like most about the previous five movies and put...
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The Hangover Part III Review: More Hijinx Than Hilarity
by Joel D Amos atAfter The Hangover Part II banked almost $600 million globally, it became clear that the film would earn a third and final chapter....
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Stories We Tell Review: Sarah Polley Pushes Envelope
by Joel D Amos atSarah Polley had a secret and now, thanks to her wildly powerful film Stories We Tell, the world knows it. The filmmaker has wowed...
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Frances Ha Review: Noah Baumbach in Black and White
by Joel D Amos atNoah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Fantastic Mr. Fox) co-wrote with star Greta Gerwig and directs Frances Ha in black and white and...
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The English Teacher Review: Literary License Approved
by Joel D Amos atIf Daniel Day Lewis is an actor chameleon, than surely Julianne Moore is an actress chameleon. She can be anything from a porn goddess...
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Star Trek Into Darkness Review: J.J. Abrams Ups the Ante
by Joel D Amos atSequels are always meant to raise the stakes on the original and Star Trek Into Darkness scores on that front. Yet, this particular film...
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Peeples Review: Surprising Summer Fun
by Joel D Amos atWhen it comes to comedies, we may be looking back on Peeples as the surprise hit of the summer. The film, from writer and first time...
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The Great Gatsby Review: A Boisterous Retelling Without the Humanity
by Micah J Gordon atThe Great Gatsby is a triumph in one very specific way: it looks absolutely beautiful. The 3D serves the visual style in a way that bests...
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