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Review of Lola Versus (2012)

By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 26 Apr 2012

Although the performances are fun and individual moments are memorable, Wein ends up sticking too close the playbook to approach the…

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Review of The Giant Mechanical Man (2012)

By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 26 Apr 2012

It's a film that's plagued with problematic writing and irritatingly convenient coincidences, but it has at its center a fundamentally…

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Review of Searching for Sugar Man (2012)

By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 26 Apr 2012

He just plays his songs and counts his blessings, and it is a pleasure to spend the 90 minutes of this warm, kind film with him…

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Review of Hysteria (2011)

By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 26 Apr 2012

Gyllenhall's performance is rich, earthy fun--she's both fervid and utterly charming, somehow managing to play the character's contemporary…

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Review of Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012)

By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 23 Apr 2012

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding' is filled with pretty people, gorgeous costumes, swoony writing, and frisky playing…

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Review of Chicken with Plums (2011)

By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 19 Apr 2012

Chicken with Plums' sneaks up on you; you're so busy marveling at the exuberant style that you may not notice how swoony and enchanting…

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Review of Darling Companion (2012)

By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 19 Apr 2012

That's a fine cast, and the film is handsomely photographed in Colorado and Utah. It's all so nice. Too nice. Deathly nice…

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Review of Lockout (2012)

By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 12 Apr 2012

This is one astonishingly insipid film, a crude, unimaginative piece of ugly claptrap, consisting entirely of spare parts assembled with a…

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Review of Damsels in Distress (2012)

By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 05 Apr 2012

It's good to have Stillman back. His return is not earth-shattering, sure. But if 'Damsels in Distress' is a piffle, it is at least a charming one…

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Review of 21 Jump Street (2012)

By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 14 Mar 2012

This is a picture that's far better than it probably had to be…

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Review of Your Sister's Sister (2011)

By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 27 Jan 2012

Your Sister's Sister' is an uncommonly smart and complicated romantic comedy, one that gets the laugh but doesn't look away from the fallout…

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Review of For a Good Time, Call... (2012)

By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 26 Jan 2012

It's tough to complain too much about as giddy and good-natured a sex comedy as this one…

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Review of Red Hook Summer (2012)

By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 26 Jan 2012

Red Hook Summer' is something of a contradiction. Or, in other words, it's a new Spike Lee Joint…

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Review of Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap (2012)

By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 25 Jan 2012

The film never accumulates into a cohesive documentary whole--it's like watching 106 minutes of 'Yo! MTV Raps' segments, back to back to back…

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Review of Pariah (2011)

By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 28 Dec 2011

There is something to be said for movies that show us a scene or subculture we haven't seen before; it's startling to see a story we're so…

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Review of War Horse (2011)

By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 23 Dec 2011

I guess you could call Steven Spielberg's 'War Horse' old fashioned, but I wouldn't deploy it as a compliment…

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Review of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 16 Dec 2011

He's found a style that works, and he indulges it. The results are occasionally uninspired, but good-natured fun all the same…

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Review of Young Adult (2011)

By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 09 Dec 2011

Young Adult' sounds utterly trite and predictable, but the laughs stick in your throat…

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Review of The Muppets (2011)

By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 23 Nov 2011

What is most remarkable about 'The Muppets' is that, from the sweetly nostalgic opening sequence forward, they absolutely nail it…

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Review of London Boulevard (2010)

By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 11 Nov 2011

It doesn't really hang together, not really. But when a picture is this sleek and pleasurable, why complain…

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