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Review of Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 03 Nov 2016

It is a bruising war story from a filmmaker whose primitive storytelling insists on conveying as graphically as possible the hell of…

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Review of Inferno (2016)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 26 Oct 2016

As much as I admire the limitless chutzpah of Howard in these Brown/Langdon thrillers, this one does seem a wee bit overstuffed…

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Review of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 19 Oct 2016

It's not the best action thriller you'll see all year but I like these Cruise Reacher movies a whole lot more than the much gaudier and…

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Review of American Honey (2016)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 13 Oct 2016

It gets to you. It's too long but the final scene is a quiet stunner…

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Review of The Accountant (2016)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 12 Oct 2016

A lot of action and a little charm can go a long way…

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Review of The Girl on the Train (2016)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 05 Oct 2016

Readers of the best-selling novel may be satisfied. The rest of us may well find it tough work, at times, to get through it…

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Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 05 Oct 2016

Even if we never again see a filmmaker as great as he was in Batman and Scissorhands, we need Tim Burton to keep on working on films as…

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Review of The Birth of a Nation (2016)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 05 Oct 2016

Birth of a Nation is a cinematic juggernaut. The cumulative portrait of Turner and its rebellion is immense…

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Review of The Babadook (2014)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 04 Oct 2016

The Babadook and his escalating presence in this exacerbated single-parent family are very scary indeed, however metaphorical they may be…

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Review of Mia madre (2015)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 28 Sep 2016

I wish the ending had been more graceful and less cliched. But it is progressively more affecting as it goes along…

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Review of The Hollars (2016)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 21 Sep 2016

Rasinski is sort of a low-grade Jimmy Stewart as a comic/dramatic actor. He's also, obviously now, a director other actors are delighted to work for…

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Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 14 Sep 2016

I frankly can't imagine why anyone would want to miss this film, whether you're a Beatle lover or nostalgist or just younger newbie who…

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Review of Sully (2016)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 07 Sep 2016

Sully is a reminder about the miracle that consummate professionals can be in the world…

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Review of Don't Think Twice (2016)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 24 Aug 2016

It's the truth and commitment of this film that really got to me. It may get to you, too…

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Review of Hands of Stone (2016)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 24 Aug 2016

The film is a conventional boxing biopic with fight scenes well-directed by Venezuelan Jonathan Jakubowicz…

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Review of Hell or High Water (2016)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 17 Aug 2016

If Star Trek movies have unfortunately convinced you that Pine is no better than a good-looking plank of plywood from Home Depot, you owe…

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Review of Suicide Squad (2016)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 03 Aug 2016

I don't know about you but these are my kind of meta-humans…

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Review of Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 03 Aug 2016

The interviews tell the story better than anyone else possibly could have…

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Review of Café Society (2016)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 28 Jul 2016

Cafe Society is such a sweetly satisfying and visually beautiful tale from 80-year-old Woody Allen that I feel terrible telling you how…

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Review of Bad Moms (2016)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 28 Jul 2016

It's not a good idea to pay too close attention to Bad Moms. It's funnier if you don't…

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