For my website's 250th movie review, I'm proud to bring you an advance review of Saving Mr. Banks, the newest live-action feature film from Walt Disney Pictures.
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Shedding most of his action star attraction and playing a dedicated father and husband,Hours easily stands out as the best Paul Walker has ever been as an actor instead of just a movie star. With his unfortunate and untimely death, it will be a shame that we will never get to see him capitalize from this passion project and personal success. Hours is a film and performance to be proud of. It's nothing award-worthy, but a very solid effort that resonates.
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Dear Vince Vaughn,
Hey, buddy! How's it going? It's been a long time. I say that because I didn't see The Internship, The Dilemma, Couples Retreat, and covered my eyes in shameful embarrassment through most of The Watch. I don't know if I told you, but I ranked The Watch as the worst movie I saw in all of 2012.Sorry to open on a down note, but I wanted to be upfront about where I've been and wanted to come clean.
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Labor Day can't fit any usual description. The best I can manage is calling it a combination of Bonnie and Clyde and The Bridges of Madison County. How's that for bucking norms?
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August: Osage County brings an outstanding story peppered with howling laughs and poignant family drama that blend tremendously better than expected. The film is fantastically acted to make this popular story very absorbing. This film is tailor-made as a holiday hit-to-be upon its upcoming Christmas weekend release and a sure-fire Oscar contender in many categories come next year. It is undoubtedly one of the best films of 2013 and will be among this website's "10 Best" of the year.
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12 Years a Slave, thanks to performances as dedicated as its storytelling mission, is, without a doubt, one of the finest films of 2013. It is an unforgettable movie experience.
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Despite the dark and messy problems and places these characters are in and come from, Silver Linings Playbook is an unashamed and unabashed comedy. With that mentality and development, the film truly flourishes into one of the most crowd-pleasing movies of the year.
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When I reflect on Lincoln, the top word that comes to mind is "earnest." Spielberg, his cast, and his crew set out to tell a piece of history with wholehearted purpose and never wavered. They weren't swinging for the box office fences to hit some grandiose action home run relying on gross dramatization, theatricality, or wild war battles set to a trumpeting score.
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Ingenious tells this true rags-to-riches story with a personable touch and realistic scale. Dallas Roberts and Jeremy Renner play a pair of extremely relatable guys and have outstanding chemistry together as characters and actors.
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Every character is beyond three-dimensional and fleshed out with dynamic emotions, origins, strengths, flaws, victories, losses, goals, and fates. All of our original core characters and our new entries each have their culminating moments for their characterization that makes The Dark Knight Rises a fitting and deserving conclusion to this now-historic and classic trilogy.
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The Amazing Spider-Man, though flawed and familiar at times, succeeds in giving us a new start for this beloved character. It's not a bold new direction, but a positive one.
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Take This Waltz is being called brave, funny, sexy, delicate, honest, erotic, and moving. Let me just say, it is all of those things and more.
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