As is often the case with CGI cartoons, the backgrounds are rendered in more convincing detail than the human characters’ expressions; here, the animation team kicks it up a notch, creating a wintry wonderland that’s dazzling to behold.
Matt Brunson
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Review: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Yes, it’s that good. Bucking the laws of diminishing returns when it comes to sequels, it’s even better than last year’s The Hunger Games, itself no slouch in the entertainment department.
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Review: Delivery Man
Vaughn proves to be a dull leading man, shooting blanks in a feeble attempt to arouse audience sympathy.
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Review: All is Lost
It’s a strikingly physical performance, more so coming from a man who’s 77, and it ably demonstrates that Redford hasn’t lost a step over the course of his durable career.
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Review: Enough Said
This brilliant drama – hidden away in just one Savannah theater – features James Gandolfini’s penultimate performance.
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Review: 12 Years a Slave
Like Roots, 12 Years a Slave turns to recorded history to gather the evidence, but because it’s an R-rated movie rather than a prime-time-friendly TV show, the ghastly sights and accompanying sounds on display in this new piece will disturb far more deeply.
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Review: Thor: The Dark World
As with the first film, the characters and their interactions again provide all the high points, with the cluttered storyline and routine action sequences jockeying for place position.
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Review: Ender’s Game
The strength of the film is not in its conventional sci-fi elements but in the manner in which Ender relates to everyone around him.
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Review: Last Vegas
Don’t expect to see a geriatric version of The Hangover – the film is better than that.
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Review: The Counselor
At its worst, it recalls the excesses of latter-day Oliver Stone, with a whiff of the awful Savages hovering around its edges.
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Review: Captain Phillips
Hanks has played ordinary guys forced to be heroes in past pictures (Saving Private Ryan, for one), but here his age and demeanor provide him with a gruffness we haven’t quite seen from him before
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Review: Escape Plan
Despite the shared marquee billing, Schwarzenegger is, as in the Expendables films, still playing second banana to Stallone, who has a much larger role.