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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
I regret is that I'd seen the 2009 original and was familiar with the story because it took the punch out of the major plot points/twists.
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Ant-Man
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Ant-Man isn't so much watching, as living through Weekend At Bernie's. Peyton Reed and co. come and parade the soulless and lifeless corpse of an Edgar Wright film.
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Delivery Man
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Delivery Man is a surprisingly heartfelt approach to a very funny premise; despite taking several unnecessary narrative detours along the way.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
It's adolescent life, without the gloss but the resonant joy of freeze-framed fist pumps.
5/5
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The Descendants
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
The Descendants is a devastating and rewarding emotional journey.
4.5/5
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Sinister
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Sinister is a subtle, poetic inquisition into the hypnotic power of horrific images ... oh and it's frightening entertainment at its best.
5/5
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The Deep Blue Sea
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
The Deep Blue Sea looked good and featured a fantastic leading performance from Weisz but the men fail the film, like their characters fail Hester (Weisz). Maybe that's the point.
2/5
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End of Watch
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
End of Watch is elevated on the shoulders of its leads and their harsh reality; until the filmmakers drop it on its head and reduce it to a frustrating 'Hollywood' cop film.
3/5
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Titanic
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
The clunky dialogue, historical inaccuracy and overdose of Billy Zane in the opening stanza of the film is all but forgotten in one of the most emotionally affective, thrilling closing stanzas ever committed to celluloid.
3.5/5
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These Final Hours
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
These Final Hours renders an abject apocalypse; and yet the last glimpses of humanity are dazzling.
4.5/5
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Big Hero 6
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Big Hero 6 has style, humour and a big, squishy heart.
4/5
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Lasseter's Bones
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Lassester's Bones is as much about the illumination of the myth surrounding the man as it is about man's desire to complete the incomplete and fulfil the unfulfilled. It's poetic, personal filmmaking.
4/5
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Fun Size
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Fun Size is the Nickelodeon equivalent of a Hallmark card for Halloween. Even the target audience will be asking their parents when it's polite to dispose of it after the holiday.
0.5/5
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Mommy
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Mommy is unbridled brilliance, Dolan is one of the world's most exciting filmmakers.
5/5
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Get the Gringo
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Get the Gringo is a superficial attempt to get Gibson back to his badass best.
2.5/5
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The Little Death
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
The Little Death is a cautionary tale to selfishness and sexual conservatism; told with a desire to be cringe-worthy. It's clever, but it knows it.
3/5
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Pacific Rim
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
PACIFIC RIM speaks the disaster language of the original Godzilla, yearns to be in the same league as Star Wars; but unfortunately its style over substance ethos delivers Transformers results.
2/5
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Rock of Ages
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Rock of Ages is what happens when Glee travels back in time with Guitar Hero and does a serious Scarface sized bowl of cocaine and starts a hair band. Cruise's performance is the only thing I enjoyed.
1/5
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The Heart Machine
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
One part Vertigo, one part Catfish - The Heart Machine is a great tale of modern paranoia as a result of severing personal connection.
3.5/5
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Begin Again
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Begin Again is a delight, not only because of its infectious musical vitality but because it follows the unexpected forks in the road.
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Dark Shadows
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Dark Shadows has some sporadic moments of fun but on the whole it's an inferior recycled mash-up of Burton's style and Depp's quirky characters from their eight collaborations.
2/5
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Finding Nemo
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Not worth the trip to the cinema but is worth every cent as a home entertainment blu ray purchase.
4/5
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The Campaign
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
The Campaign has my vote. Two mainstream comedy titans have managed to make an accessible yet biting satire of the ridiculous state of American politics.
3.5/5
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Fury
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Ayer's and his ensemble in Fury cast men in World War Two, the last 'good' war, in a ghastly light.
3.5/5
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Gravity
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Not since Ridley Scott (Alien and Blade Runner) has a filmmaker done more for the Sci-Fi genre. Gravity is undeniable. See it on the biggest screen possible, you will feel the epic profundity of being lost in space.
5/5
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Rampart
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Rampart is a hypnotic, subjective, immersive experience into the deepest depths of a character that you love to hate. It's powerfully ambiguous filmmaking; and you need to see it.
5/5
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All Is Lost
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
All is Lost is outstanding and so the collaboration between Redford and writer/director J.C Chandor.
4/5
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Rush
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Rush will find your inner petrol head as you're faced with the reality that there's a knife's edge between death and glory.
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Frank
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Frank isn't so much a film but a place where weird characters gather; and it's worth a visit.
3.5/5
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Ted
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
If you love Family Guy and worship at the alter of McFarlane you will absolutely adore Ted. It's ridiculous, inappropriate, hilarious, nostalgic, geek heroin.
4/5
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No Country for Old Men
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Cormac McCarthy's amazing novel was blessed with a usually impossible faithful adaption that translated the power of the words and weaved them into cinema.
5/5
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Captain America: The Winter Soldier sees the talent (rookies or veterans) assembled firing on all cylinders, significantly upping the stake for the next phase of the MCU and showing why we still need "a little old fashioned."
4/5
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St. Vincent
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
St. Vincent is heartfelt and loveably crass. While you expect Murray to be magic, it's really his interplay with apprentice Lieberher that scores.
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Bully
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Bully's unobtrusive and poetic style, subtly but surgically uncovers the prison-like social hierarchical structure cultivated in US schools ... It's an affective, powerful, honest voice that demands to be heard.
5/5
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The Double
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
A surreal exercise in cinematic narrative alienation, peppered with comedic interruption.
2/5
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Coriolanus
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Ralph Fiennes plays Coriolanus in all his spitting, spouting, grandiose glory.
3.5/5
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Nightcrawler
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Nightcrawler is artful and frighteningly plausible.
4/5
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The Amazing Spider-Man
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
The "Amazing" Spider-Man doesn't earn its moniker. The fresh directorial approach, darker origins and youthful flavour is suffocated by the obligation of laying all too familiar foundations to the Spidey-verse.
3/5
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Son of a Gun
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Son of a Gun is Grand Theft Auto Western Australia in the best and worst possible ways.
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Melancholia
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
A lot of people will hate Melancholia for all the reasons it's not like other sci-fi films or traditional dramatic films - and others such as myself will love it for its difference.
4/5
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ParaNorman
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
ParaNorman is style, substance, [delicious] brains and a huge [cold dead] heart.
4.5/5
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The Great Gatsby
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
The Great Gatsby is Baz Luhrman's visual tribute album to the novel; and it's only in his filmmaking comfort zones that any of the essence of the text elevates beyond karaoke.
2/5
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Lee Daniels' The Butler
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
The Butler burned like phosphorus early but fizzled towards a heavy handed conclusion and 'message' that lands with the finesse of a sledge hammer.
3/5
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
I'm extremely pleased to say that there may be hope for our friendly, neighbourhood spandex wearing New Yorker.
4/5
5
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Café de Flore
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Caf De Flore is a tragic, beautiful tale of love remixed through time; where the chords resonate true in every remixed incarnation.
4.5/5
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Riddick
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Riddick brings the character back to what people enjoyed about Pitch Black; Twohy's Diesel idolatry aside there's entertaining sci-fi action thrills to be had, once.
2.5/5
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Now You See Me
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Now You See Me puts the fun back in being fooled.
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A Dangerous Method
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Fassbender provides a solid tortured performance alongside stand-out support from Mortensen; unfortunately the film hinges on the Sabina character that in Knightly's hands lacked the necessary punch to elevate this film.
3/5
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The Lady
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
The Lady doesn't do justice to the amazing life and democratic crusade of Aung San Suu Kyi despite excellent performances by David Thewlis and Michelle Yeoh.
2.5/5
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Elysium
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
ELYSIUM doesn't have the striking originality and defiance of DISTRICT 9 but its prescient social commentary fused with spectacular sci-fi action makes for essential viewing.
3.5/5
5
3.5
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The Water Diviner
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
The Water Diviner is one father's crusade for peace as he wades through the devastation of war. Mr. Crowe has done an accomplished job of revisiting Gallipoli, with an open heart.
3.5/5
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Zero Dark Thirty
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Spectacular performances, brilliant direction and tight scripting are all weaved into visual prose and potent source material to make Zero Dark Thirty not only great, but important.
5/5
5
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Dom Hemingway
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Law absolutely relishes the opportunity to strip away any semblance of his former 'sex symbol' status to embody this ape of a man. His chest beating, hard drinking, fourth wall breaking, libidinous freak needs to make up for lost time.
3/5
5
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Felony
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Felony isn't interest in asteroidal impact, its focus is the butterfly wings that flap and whip up a hurricane; Edgerton, Courtney, George, Wilkinson and Roberts are the collateral damage.
3.5/5
5
3.5
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Tusk
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Tusk is the monster stitched out of a horrific premise and Kevin Smith's brand of downright silliness.
3.5/5
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The Man With the Iron Fists
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
The Man with the Iron Fists is fun as hell and it knows what it is. RZA's Blaxploitation, Kung Fu Remix debut sounds and looks stellar.
3/5
5
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Oz the Great and Powerful
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Just like Dorothy's technicolour journey before, this trip through Oz is once again smeared by this ill deserving charlatan.
1/5
5
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2
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X-Men: First Class
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Vaughan, Singer and their team bring together a new X-Men holy trinity (McAvoy, Fassbender and Lawrence) and turn the tide on a franchise that had delivered two point blank shots to fans heads with The Last Stand and Origins.
3.5/5
5
3.5
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7
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Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
If PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF gave a studio hope enough to jumpstart this franchise then PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS ensures that it 'sleeps with the fishes.'
2/5
5
2
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4
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Savages
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Savages is Platoon's dystopic future realised. Everything's bigger and brighter but the sadistic sociopathy of this war remains hellish.
4/5
5
4
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8
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The Other Woman
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
The Other Woman is frustratingly indecisive.
2/5
5
2
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4
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2
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Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters has the hypnotic allure of a candy-coated house but in reality, it's a diabetic coma.
1.5/5
5
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Stretch
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Stretch feels like the dots joined from what was left on Carnaghan's drawing board.
3/5
5
3
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6
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Chopper
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
It's an all too frequent occurrence to see the phrase 'instant classic' bandied about; Chopper was appropriately adorned with that title.
5/5
5
5
5
true
10
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Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?: An Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? is Michel Gondry's intellectual spirit quest.
3.5/5
5
3.5
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7
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Kill Your Darlings
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Kill Your Darlings weaved the mythical origins of the beat generation into a fiercely engaging drama about finding yourself amidst crises of identity, sexuality and art.
4/5
5
4
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8
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Predestination
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Predestination defiantly confounds and tantalises.
4.5/5
5
4.5
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9
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Magic Mike
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Magic Mike features great performances from Tatum and McConaughey; it's well guided by the assured directorial eye of Soderbergh but the slavishly conventional resolution made me keep the larger bills in my pocket.
3.5/5
5
3.5
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Red State
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Phenomenal
5/5
5
5
5
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10
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Her
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Jonze's Her is a work of sweeping, poetic genius.
5/5
5
5
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10
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Iron Man 3
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Iron Man 3 is the Marvel film-verse breaking new ground, and it's easily the best of the trilogy.
4.5/5
5
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We're The Millers
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
We're the Millers is way funnier and entertaining than it should be.
3/5
5
3
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6
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Muppets Most Wanted
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Muppets Most Wanted is essentially the 'B-Side' to The Muppets. It almost ensures that the Muppets are left to gather dust on a shelf awaiting the desperation of a true fan filmmaker to resurrect them once again.
2/5
5
2
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4
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Lost River
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Lost River is absolutely not going to be for everybody but that's precisely why it's worth your time. Gosling's first outing is hopefully not going to be his last.
3.5/5
5
3.5
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7
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
"Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" is giving Branagh a chance to get in Dr. Frankenstein's shoe once again; Cozad and Koepp ignore the library of source material and assist in creating a monster from elements of other successful spy characters.
1.5/5
5
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3
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Nebraska
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Nebraska is undeniable; agonisingly hilarious, unyielding in its paternal love and devastatingly authentic to the ache of life closer to its end than the beginning.
5/5
5
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10
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War Horse
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
War Horse is a fine film, helmed by a fine filmmaker all too aware of how to pull the audience's strings.
3.5/5
5
3.5
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Calvary
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Calvary will shake you up; it's as audacious as it is beautiful.
5/5
5
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10
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Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
I can't actually be sure that anything happened.
1/5
5
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2
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Taken 2
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
After seeing Taken 2, you'll feel as if your time and money has been kidnapped, drugged and forced into the sex trade.
1/5
5
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2
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Lincoln
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Lincoln is a performance masterclass. Spielberg humanises the icon and admires Lincoln the man - in the face of the challenges that defined him. It's a special effort in the capable hands of a legend.
4.5/5
5
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Hugo
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
It's an ode to cinema; it's everything that modern cinematic audiences take for granted. This film is Scorsese's gift to an audience that isn't old enough to have ever heard his name.
5/5
5
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10
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Seven Psychopaths
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
...the moment to moment of the unparalleled craziness that experimental narrative, character dexterity and into the depths of McDonagh's necessary second album psychosis.
4/5
5
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Upstream Color
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Upstream Color's mystery paralysed me.
4/5
5
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Safety Not Guaranteed
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
It's a warm, fuzzy indie and a covert sci fi triumph.
4/5
5
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King of Devil's Island
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
King of Devil's Island is poetic story of friendship and adolescence in the bleak, cold and brutal 1915 Bastoy. It's a snow covered, potent mixture of Sleepers, Shawshank Redemption and Lord of the Flies.
4/5
5
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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
HK:DOAS is a beautifully artistic, yet unflinching revenge film; distorted by unnecessary 3D and 45 minutes of additional runtime.
2.5/5
5
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Buck
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Real life trumps 'reel life' in this fantastic, sweet, personal, human story about this true eccentric character.
4/5
5
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Blackhat
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Blackhat feels like the vehicle that Mann wanted to explore the hacking world but the casting and the script's counterintuitive motivations it mutated away from his intent. It's a shame.
2/5
5
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4
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Human Capital
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
It would be easy to right of Human Capital, as 'first world problems: the movie', but when the ripples in the ponds of the rich crash life tsunamis on those in lower social brackets it's riveting.
3.5/5
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The Wolverine
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Moving away from the iconically U.S landscape and toward the brutal, loneliness of the character shreds away the stain of Wolverine Origins & The Last Stand and gives our favourite adamantium skeleton-ed mutant the film that he and we deserve.
4/5
5
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Lone Survivor
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Lone Survivor is writer/director Peter Berg's best to date...
3.5/5
5
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Olympus Has Fallen
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Olympus Has Fallen is the stupid, dark fantasy of backward white trash America that needs another domestic threat to trigger war.
1/5
5
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2
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The Sapphires
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
There's a sense of vibrancy and hope burgeoning throughout as the quartet yearn to escape the shackles of their oppressive past at the hands of a racist White Australia. The Sapphires is a triumph.
3.5/5
5
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Wolf Creek 2
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
WOLF CREEK 2 is just the crazy ride one hopes for in this ever affective horror genre but it's the pervasive satire that you absorb in this vulnerable state that leaves an indelible mark.
5/5
5
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10
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Flight
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
As each new chapter of Flight unfolds, you expect it to take a turn toward the generic and schmaltz. Thankfully Zemeckis, Gatins and Washington don't let up this liberating free-fall to rock-bottom.
4/5
5
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John Wick
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Keanu Reeves met John Wick at the perfect moment of his career.
4/5
5
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8
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2
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Life of Pi
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Life of Pi is a beautiful allegory about living with faith in the face on unfathomable tests.
4/5
5
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8
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2
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Moonrise Kingdom
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
Moonrise Kingdom is enchanting and warm like fond memories of your first love; but with a self-awareness that sees the hilarity in the eccentrics that abound.
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Midnight in Paris
2UE That Movie Show
Blake Howard
I continue to be utterly taken with Midnight in Paris.
5/5
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