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Review: “Napoleon” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby
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Review: “Napoleon” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby

by Christian DeFeo March 10, 2024March 12, 2024
Ridley Scott turned the story of Napoleon Bonaparte into a big budget epic; how does…
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Review: “Gone Girl” starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike

by Christian DeFeo October 4, 2014October 8, 2014
Some films are meant to be taken at face value: a car chase is a…
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Review: “Skyfall” starring Daniel Craig and Javier Bardem

by Christian DeFeo February 20, 2013February 20, 2013
[AMAZONPRODUCT=B006X040NY] I thought that James Bond had turned a page. Both of Daniel Craig’s initial…
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Review: “American Pie: Reunion” starring Eugene Levy and Jason Biggs

by Christian DeFeo May 12, 2012May 16, 2012
The first episode of Michael Palin’s “Ripping Yarns” began with a quote from G. K.…
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Review: “The Jonathan Meades Collection”

by Christian DeFeo March 19, 2012May 10, 2012
[AMAZONPRODUCT=B001110H14] I was introduced to the works of Jonathan Meades a few years after I…
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Review: “The Stoning of Soraya M” starring Shoreh Agdashloo and Jim Caviezel

by Christian DeFeo March 12, 2012May 10, 2012
[AMAZONPRODUCT=B00450AGA0] Not every film is meant to pull on one’s heart strings in a positive…
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Review: “The Ides of March” starring Ryan Gosling and George Clooney

by Christian DeFeo March 12, 2012August 11, 2015
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B005ZCSP9Q”] In my experience, every presidential election brings about at least some small blossoming…
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Review: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1” starring Daniel Radcliffe

by Christian DeFeo November 20, 2010November 23, 2010
I open this review with a bit of a confession. When the last book in…
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Review: “Nothing to Envy” by Barbara Demick

by Christian DeFeo May 28, 2010February 23, 2012
[AMAZONPRODUCT=1847080146] If there was a competition for the “most pointless” country in the world, North…
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Review: “The Road” starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron

by Christian DeFeo