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John Hanlon Reviews

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Dear White People

Release Date: October 17th, 2014

Dear White People is the rare movie that slowly but persistently earns a viewer’s attention and proves to be much more than the title suggests. The film’s title may refer to one college student’s controversial radio program program where she offers advice to white...

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Fury

Release Date: October 17th, 2014

“Do as you’re told. Don’t get too close to anyone.” Those words are the sage advice that Don ‘Wardaddy’ Collier (Brad Pitt) offers naïve officer Norman Ellison (Logan Lerman) after Ellison is assigned to ride in Collier’s tank in the new war drama Fury....

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The Judge

Release Date: October 10th, 2014

In the new movie The Juddge, when the title character– Judge Joseph Palmer (Robert Duvall)– talks about the attorney he needs to defend him in an upcoming murder trial, he notes that someone decent would serve him well. He adds, “By decent I mean honest”–...

Gone Girl

Gone Girl

Release Date: October 3rd, 2014

Like his last two features The Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, more about director David Fincher’s new movie Gone Girl takes a distinct look at oftentimes unsympathetic characters. Like in those features, more about Fincher relies on his performers to...

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Annabelle

Release Date: October 3rd, 2014

In the horror feature The Conjuring, dosage the main couple depicted investigate supernatural activities and maintain a basement of artifacts and items that have been used in cases of demonic possession beforehand. One of those artifacts— a creepy-looking doll named...

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The Boxtrolls

Release Date: September 26th, 2014

The new movie Boxtrolls is, what is ed in a word, story delightful. Its warm-hearted premise is brought to the big screen with gorgeous animation that make the title characters feel real and genuine. Based on Alan Snow’s children’s novel Here be Monsters, it is the...

The Equalizer

Release Date: September 26th, 2014

Denzel Washington often plays quiet men thrust into life-or-death situations (Unstoppable, thumb John Q.) or loud overconfident men whose personal failings undermine their innate abilities (Training Day, see Flight). He plays a mixture of both characters in his new action...

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