Tag: overacting
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Please Paul McGuigan, A Whole Good Movie
Push is an action movie that might entertain you for about 30 seconds at a time, but proves without good writing snazz is nothing. It’s about mutants on the run from shady government types, which isn’t exactly wild originality in the superhero genre. There are a lot of directors who do what I like to…
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Ultimately, It’s Actually Pretty Good
Doubt Review Not to use the cliched press puns I try to avoid on this website, but, hell it kinda fits here. Doubt gives you plenty of reasons to doubt it’s a good movie. It’s about two nuns, Sister James (Amy Adams) sees the priest Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) doing some shady stuff after…
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Kinda Like A Rough, Over-acted Draft of Juno
United States of Tara Pilot Review One wonders how much clout a Steven Spielberg created series has based on the pilot of United States of Tara. The idea is okay, and certainly fits easily into the “edgy” family subgenre popular on channels like Showtime, HBO, and FX. But something is lacking in the execution. Maybe…