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Thursday, September 13,2012

Instagrim: 'Celeste and Jesse Forever' is a hipster love tragedy

By Ryan Syrek
The degree to which you will enjoy Celeste and Jesse Forever solely depends on how ensorcelled you are by the luminous Rashida Jones.
Thursday, September 6,2012

Chinese art attack

‘Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry’ is a moving middle finger

By Ryan Syrek
It’s impossible not to watch Ai Weiwei, dubbed by some as the “Chinese Andy Warhol,” tell his motherland to eff right on off without thinking one thing first and foremost: That dude has got some Buddha-sized stones.
Thursday, September 6,2012

Rednecks and white lightning

‘Lawless’ does its job, but goes down rough

By Ryan Syrek
Scuff him, scrape him, buff him up; nobody is going to buy Shia LaBeouf as a country boy. He has a face built for Instagram and his posture is that of a narcissist demanding bottle service at a trendy club.
Thursday, August 30,2012

Recyclists

‘Premium Rush’ rides on clichs

By Ryan Syrek
Premium Rush is crap. It may, however, be somewhat fun crap, depending on your tolerance for scenery chewing, "look how current we are" cultural references and spandex.
Thursday, August 30,2012

Fender blender

‘Hit and Run’ tries to merge genres, then wrecks

By Ryan Syrek
Everybody needs a little help. Writer/director/actor Dax Shepard could have probably used another writer, a third director (David Palmer already co-directed) and a better group of actors for Hit and Run, a movie that is a cinematic traffic accident with multiple fatalities.
Thursday, August 23,2012

I see clay people

'ParaNorman' is a socially responsible, animated 'Sixth Sense'

By Ryan Syrek
Before Pixar flexed its artistic muscle (a muscle they could stand to exercise more frequently these days), the message in American animated films ranged from "always be true to yourself" to "always be true to yourself and also get heterosexually married."
Thursday, August 16,2012

Comedians united

‘The Campaign’ is a 90-minute middle finger to SCOTUS

By Ryan Syrek
Writers Chris Henchy and Shawn Harwell move beyond the standard skewing of attack-ad politics and candidates that are either incompetent or lecherous. Oh, sure, they have fun with the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion, but the villains are the ones shouting “pay no attention to the douchebags behind the curtain.
Thursday, August 16,2012

Bourne to be bored

'The Bourne Legacy' meekly attempts Bond-style serialization

By Dave Taylor
The film opens with Cross in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness, having to fend off a wolf attack and survive an extraordinarily hostile environment until he meets up with another agent (Oscar Isaac). Cross learns he’s not the only Outcome creation and is then forced to make his way back to civilization after a drone attacks their isolated cabin.
Thursday, August 9,2012

Forgettable

‘Total Recall’ just slightly better than amnesia

By Ryan Syrek
Total Recall is the sci-fi tale of a quasi-postapocalyptic duckface war between Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel, with Colin Ferrell as the judge. At least, that’s what this remake of an adaptation of a short story, written by a gob-stopping five separate writers, seems to be about. Any larger theme is missed among the cacophony of dubstep and techno sounds, Farrell’s unrepentant shirtlessness and Biel and Beckinsale’s leather pants.
Thursday, August 2,2012

Savage beauty and the beasts

‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ is why they make movies%u2028

By Ryan Syrek
They should hand out oxygen tanks before each screening of Beasts of the Southern Wild because writer/director Benh Zeitlin’s debut feature film takes your breath in the very first scene and plays keep away with it for more than 90 minutes.
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