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Review of Chimes at Midnight (1965)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 18 Sep 2018

One of Welles's greatest late-stage accomplishments-a very nearly magnificent amalgam of plot points, characters, and dialogue from not…

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Review of Clear and Present Danger (1994)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 16 Sep 2018

Both cutting in its indictment of how power corrupts even the best intentions and bravely optimistic in asserting that, not only can one…

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Review of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 16 Sep 2018

While much of it is good, it often feels overly derivative of other action movie franchises, which is probably why it failed to reignite the series…

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Review of The Hunt for Red October (1990)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 16 Sep 2018

The kind of action thriller that is rarely made today-one that emphasizes intellect and logic, intuition and political maneuvering over…

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Review of Patriot Games (1992)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 16 Sep 2018

Manages the action with verve and efficiency while also giving the film a more nuanced emotional sensibility, emphasizing Ryan as a father…

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Review of The Little Stranger (2018)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 16 Sep 2018

Like many great Gothic tales, The Little Stranger plays with our expectations of a ghost story…

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Review of The Meg (2018)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 28 Aug 2018

Director Jon Turtletaub gives it all such a rote sheen of familiar polish that you might find yourself wishing that The Meg were a truly…

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Review of BlacKkKlansman (2018)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 26 Aug 2018

Funny, but often mordantly so in a way that forces you to confront how racism itself is fundamentally absurd even as it stands at the core…

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Review of Jabberwocky (1977)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 26 Aug 2018

Not a particularly good film, even though it is an often clever and exceedingly efficient in its absurdist experimentation mixing fantasy…

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Review of Bowling for Columbine (2002)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 26 Aug 2018

Hits us with hard truths and thought-provoking inquiry while also making us laugh…

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Review of The Devil Is a Woman (1935)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 04 Aug 2018

Seems designed to simultaneously emphasize and lampoon Dietrich's smoldering screen persona…

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Review of Dishonored (1931)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 04 Aug 2018

Von Sternberg turns what could have been little more than a typical espionage potboiler into another one of his luxuriant visual essays on…

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Review of The King (2021)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 04 Aug 2018

A state-of-the-union assessment by way of an Elvis Presley documentary…

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Review of Morocco (1930)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 04 Aug 2018

Cooper and Dietrich have a unique romantic chemistry, although it is memorable mainly for its oddness, rather than any heat it generates…

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Review of The King (2017)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 04 Aug 2018

A state-of-the-union assessment by way of an Elvis Presley documentary…

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Review of The King (2018)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 04 Aug 2018

A state-of-the-union assessment by way of an Elvis Presley documentary…

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Review of Blonde Venus (1932)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 04 Aug 2018

Its framing of conventional melodramatic narrative beats with excessive visual style doesn't always work, making it feel at times like a…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 04 Aug 2018

A great, unapologetic nose-dive into old-school, free-fall, red-meat action that plays as a stark reminder of why physical presence and…

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Review of Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 18 Jul 2018

You won't mistake Ant-Man and the Wasp for anything particularly deep or even all that ambitious, but it is certainly a fun diversion…

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Review of Jack Reacher (2012)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 18 Jul 2018

A highly enjoyable throwback to gritty '70s crime thrillers that were made without wires, CGI, or hyperkinetic editing and instead relied…

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