Category: Movies
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Ida (2014)
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Read more: Ida (2014)I thought that I had already watched the two best movies of the year in Birdman and Boyhood, but after watching this beautiful and haunting film, I’m not so sure. Ida was set in the drab and joyless country of Poland, around 1962, at the height of the Cold War. Ida was a young woman…
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Big Hero 6
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Read more: Big Hero 6You know, for kids!
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Jingle All The Way 2
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Read more: Jingle All The Way 2WHAT?
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The Muppets Christmas Carol (1992)
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Read more: The Muppets Christmas Carol (1992)Anyone who has been reading Ruthless Reviews faithfully knows that I have already reviewed a half-dozen versions of this Christmas classic. The Muppets animation hybrid is the most underwhelming of the lot of remakes of the Dickens novel that I have reviewed. The Muppets Christmas Carol (1992) takes a slightly different approach to the Carol,…
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Left Behind (Nicolas Cage Version)
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Read more: Left Behind (Nicolas Cage Version)The show Doctor Who, in many ways commits all of the same narrative sins as the Bible. In both cases, a long running, byzantine plot structure is…
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Mockingjay Part One (The Hunger Games)
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Read more: Mockingjay Part One (The Hunger Games)Katniss Everdeen sits in a bomb shelter for two hours. That’s the sort of accident that you get when you decide to make a movie solely out of the first part of a third book in a trilogy.
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Fury (2014)
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Read more: Fury (2014)If Fury has a point, it is that war changes everyone who encounters it. Nine times out of ten, it changes those people into extra chunky corpse salsa…
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Sexy Beast
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Read more: Sexy Beast“I am just going to have to turn this opportunity down.” “No, you’re just gonna have to turn this opportunity yes!” sociopath (noun) A person who is completely unable or unwilling to behave in a way that is acceptable to society. Don Logan The movie begins innocuously enough, with retired gangster and safe cracker Gal…
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Le Deuxieme Souffle
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Read more: Le Deuxieme SouffleA Second Wind within a theme of fatalism.
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Interstellar
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Read more: InterstellarNolan’s film, along with it’s attendant monologues and over-hammering of themes, reminds me of the science fiction of Orson Scott Card, at least from the era before Card degenerated completely into a homophobic Mormon crank. There may not be subtlety, but there is beauty and imagination at work.