Frozen (Buck and Lee, 2013)
Evaluating Disney films in a DVD era has become a complicated calculus.
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lawrence, 2013)
I prefer the movie to the book.
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The Armstrong Lie (Gibney, 2013)
A person--doesn’t have to be a friend of yours necessarily, just someone you know or have heard of--is diagnosed with cancer. This person decides not to undergo any type of chemotherapy treatment or ingest any available medicines—because he equates treatment to “cheating.” Would you not think this an asinine response?
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It’s Better to Jump (Angelone, 2013)
It's Better to Jump is one of those films that sounds better in a summary than it ends up being.
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Child of God (Franco, 2013)
An outsider, of “carnival folk” in a rustic, small town in the backwoods of Tennessee, Lester Ballard lives alone, fighting for his survival.
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Church Hoppers
It's hard to combine reality television with church.
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Weir, 2003) — 10 Years Later
That "B" grade looks stingy in retrospect, especially given some of the films I had rated above it: Kill Bill: Vol. 1; Thirteen; The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; Mystic River.
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Aftermath (Pasikowski, 2012)
It's not surprising, then, to find the film is about antisemitism. What was surprising to me was how fresh it managed to be even while dealing with a subject that is as old as Western civilization.
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All She Can (Wendel, 2011)
College—it’s Luz Garcia’s dream—it’s her only way of escaping the big trouble of her small town.
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Ender’s Game (Hood, 2013)
I've spent the three days between viewing and reviewing Ender's Game listlessly trying to convince myself that the film didn't suck.