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emile hirsch

reviews 2 stars, ben foster, emile hirsch, eric bana, lone survivor, mark wahlberg, peter berg, taylor kitsch

LONE SURVIVOR

February 2, 2014

What is it that makes this film feel so “twenty years ago”, and why is that not good enough any more?

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3.5 stars, crime, drama, emile hirsch, gina gershon, juno temple, killer joe, matthew mcconoughey, thomas haden church, william friedkin

KILLER JOE

September 2, 2012

Southern style deep-fried murder might look good on the plate, but not everybody is going to want to take a bite.

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Ryan McNeil
Uncategorized comedy, emile hirsch, eugene levy, imelda staunton, music, trailers

Love Revolution (TAKING WOODSTOCK Trailer)

July 3, 2009

I’m slightly late to the party in posting this trailer (it’s been around for easily a month or two)…but I finally caught the clip before my screening of AWAY WE GO. This might well turn into my new favorite movie!

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 4 stars, alison pill, bio-pic, diego luna, drama, dvd, emile hirsch, gus van sant, james franco, josh brolin, politics, sean penn, victor garber

MILK

December 8, 2008

Gus van Sant’s beautiful portrait of different sort of hopeful audacity.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 4 stars, catherine keener, drama, dvd, emile hirsch, hal holbrook, into the wild, jena malone, kristen stewart, marcia gay harden, sean penn, vince vaughn, william hurt, zach galifianakis

INTO THE WILD

September 29, 2007

Sean Penn lends some visual poetry to one starry-eyed idealist’s moment of self-destruction.

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Ryan McNeil
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