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3.5 stars

reviews 3.5 stars, absurd, catherine keener, charlie kaufman, comedy, dvd, hope davis, michelle williams, phillip seymour hoffman, samantha morton

SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK

November 22, 2008

And now for something completely different…

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3.5 stars, amy ryan, angelina jolie, clint eastwood, colm feore, drama, dvd, john malkovich

CHANGELING

November 2, 2008

Is there anything in the world as tragic as the parent who has lost their child?

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3.5 stars, british, comedy, crime, dvd, gerard butler, guy ritchie, idris elba, jamie campbell bower, jeremy piven, ludacris, mark strong, rocknrolla, thandie newton, tom hardy, tom wilkinson

ROCKNROLLA

October 11, 2008

There’s no school like the old school.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3.5 stars, action, comic book, dvd, fantasy, guiellermo del toro, jeffrey tambor, ron pearlman, selma blair, seth macfarlane, william hurt

HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY

July 12, 2008

Sometimes the creative vision of a director really is the star of the show.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3.5 stars, action, clark gregg, comic book, dvd, gweneth paltrow, iron man, jeff bridges, jon favreau, marvel, mcu infinity saga, mcu phase one, paul bettany, robert downey jr, terrance howard

IRON MAN

May 5, 2008

Heroes can be found in the damndest of places.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3.5 stars, bill hader, comedy, dvd, forgetting sarah marshall, jack mcbrayer, jason segal, jonah hill, judd apatow, kristen bell, mila kunis, nicholas stoller, paul rudd, russell brand

FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL

April 20, 2008

They say that breaking up is hard to do. Bullshit – Breaking up is easy, it’s moving on that’s the bitch.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3.5 stars, alan rickman, drama, dvd, helena bonham-carter, jamie campbell bower, jayne wisener, johnny depp, musical, sacha baron cohen, sweeney todd, tim burton, timothy spall

SWEENEY TODD

April 8, 2008

Tim Burton takes a truly grisly tale and finds a way to make it even more gruesome.

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Ryan McNeil
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