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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Movie Reviews: Gangster Squad, Broken City, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Zero Dark Thirty and More

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Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone. Want to add your own review? Share your thoughts in the comments! For reviews from Mark Glass, a Clayton resident and member of the St. Louis Film Critics Association, please see his Local Voices section on Patch. - - - - -  Broken City Mark Glass, Patch blogger: This urban political/crime drama is surprisingly well-scripted, with more than its fair share of twists and turns. Mark Wahlberg plays a hardnosed New York cop, who is stripped of his badge early in the film over a controversy about his shooting an alleged rapist. Although the mayor (Russell Crowe) understands and approves of what he did, public outrage over what may have been excessive force compels The Brass …

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Movie Reviews: The Impossible, Gangster Squad, Zero Dark Thirty, Promised Land

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Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone. Want to add your own review? Share your thoughts in the comments! For reviews from Mark Glass, a Clayton resident and member of the St. Louis Film Critics Association, please see his Local Voices section on Patch. Gangster Squad Austin Chronicle: "Despite the unrelenting action and the terrific cast, Gangster Squad comes up more scattered than successful." Austin Chronicle. Full Review A.O. Scott of The New York Times: "His (Fleischer) first feature, "Zombieland," was a half-witty genre parody. This one might be described as genre zombie-ism: the hysterical, brainless animation of dead clichés reduced to purposeless, compulsive killing. Too self-serious to succeed as …

Monday, December 17, 2012

Movie Reviews: The Hobbit, Playing for Keeps, Hyde Park and Killing Them Softly

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Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey  "Charming, spectacular, technically audacious… in short, everything you expect from a Peter Jackson movie. A feeling of familiarity does take hold in places, but this is an epically entertaining first course." From Matthew Leyland of Total Film. Full Review.   "As epic, grandiose, and emotionally appealing as the previous pictures, The Hobbit doesn't stray far from the mold, but it's a thrilling ride that's one of the most enjoyable, exciting and engaging tentpoles of the year." From Rodrigo Perez of The Playlist. Full Review.   "I'm holding the filmmaker responsible for getting us all back again - to feelings of excitement and delight…

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