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Teens & Up
Angelina Jolie’s
Unbroken is an honorable movie about an inspiring true story. It is impeccably crafted, with a raft of remarkably talented people behind it. It is a celebration of the old-fashioned virtues of duty, grit, fortitude and honor. In the end, it tips its hat to faith, forgiveness and reconciliation. The film I just described is a film that, on paper, I should love.
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Kids & Up
I want to say I love the idea for
Little Orphan Hushpuppy … but I’m not convinced there’s actually an idea here.
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Changes like these are sadly typical of the
Hobbit prequel trilogy, which is far cruder and less sensitive to the charm and beauty of its source material than the
Lord of the Rings films were. As bad as Christopher Tolkien’s fears in 2012 about
The Hobbit films might have been, the reality is worse.
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“Will you follow me … one last time?” Well, if you
promise it’s the last time.
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Teens & Up
What I can say is that
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (a title strangely stuffed with too many
the’s, at a time when movie titles often dispense with articles) includes — amid overinflated spectacle and cynical fan service — some of the best stuff of any of this prequel trilogy.
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