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Rob Boylan

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Publications:: Orlando Weekly

Total Reviews:: 21

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2/5	87%	Arbitrage (2012)	" He simply evades and bargains. It's tough to say what audiences are supposed to do with that." — Orlando Weekly Posted Oct 9, 2012
3/5	95%	Side by Side (2012)	" I appreciate [Reeves'] interest and passion on the subject, and his interview style is fine -- the conversations he finds himself engaged in with the Wachowski's especially is worth watching it for alone." — Orlando Weekly Posted Sep 7, 2012
2/5	29%	Red Lights (2012)	" Filmed in Spain and Canada, Red Lights is limply staged and even more uninspiringly shot - everywhere looks like nowhere. The effect of all this is a total lack of emotional connection to these characters right from the start." — Orlando Weekly Posted Aug 1, 2012
5/5	86%	Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)	" If I didn't see it with my own eyes, I never would have thought it possible to make a fairy tale out of Hurricane Katrina, but that's exactly what first-time director Benh Zeitlin has done in Beasts of the Southern Wild." — Orlando Weekly Posted Aug 1, 2012
3/5	73%	The Whistleblower (2011)	" Don't let the impressive cast list, which includes Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Bellucci and David Strathairn, fool you: This is the Rachel Weisz show." — Orlando Weekly Posted Oct 12, 2011
2/5	44%	Yellowbrickroad (2011)	" Not only are the movie's key questions left unanswered, they are left almost entirely unexplored once the cast begins their journey on the trail." — Orlando Weekly Posted Jun 1, 2011
	63%	Daydream Nation (2011)	" The goodwill that the charming Dennings has built up in earlier films, such as 40-Year-Old Virgin and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, doesn't excuse this role." — Orlando Weekly Posted May 26, 2011
3/5	81%	Four Lions (2010)	" The film left me with a slightly empty feeling that all Morris has accomplished is getting me to split my sides in the face of something wholly terrifying, and that's OK - even necessary - for now." — Orlando Weekly Posted Dec 30, 2010
4/5	62%	Howl (2010)	" This film is not exactly a defining moment of anything, past or present, but it offers a compelling peek at an important point in time." — Orlando Weekly Posted Dec 2, 2010
4/5	97%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" Bigelow's camera is impartial and dispassionate, but explosively powerful and unflinching. There is no commentary or judgment, just war and fatigue." — Orlando Weekly Posted Jul 23, 2009
4/5	81%	Okuribito (Departures) (2009)	" There is nothing so sparkling to this film at first glance. It's a film about man's mortality and how he handles it, but death is not cleverly hidden inside a bigger story. It's a wake-up slap in the face about the gritty part of dying: the bodies." — Orlando Weekly Posted Jul 9, 2009
3/5	50%	Whatever Works (2009)	" Whatever Works won't set the world on fire but it has more than its share of riotously hysterical moments and delicious absurdities." — Orlando Weekly Posted Jul 3, 2009
2/5	44%	The Limits of Control (2009)	" Every time something seems to be happening, Jarmusch tips us gently back into sleep mode. It's enough to make you long for a sip of one of the countless espressos the nameless man enjoys." — Orlando Weekly Posted Jun 4, 2009
5/5	98%	Up (2009)	" Even the out-of-place moments and blunt conceits can be forgiven, as they perform dutifully in service to the kind of thrilling movie adventures we regular folks can only dream of, but which the wizards at Pixar perform with ease." — Orlando Weekly Posted May 28, 2009
4/5	89%	Sin Nombre (2009)	" [Director Fukunaga] spends as little time dwelling on the whole as possible, instead opting for a classic road-trip story of the parts: the people who are emigrating and the gang members trying to kill one of them." — Orlando Weekly Posted May 14, 2009
2/5	64%	The Girlfriend Experience (2009)	" While The Girlfriend Experience is not a good film by any stretch, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it as being, at the very least, worth the time to watch it." — Orlando Weekly Posted May 14, 2009
3/5	62%	Faubourg 36 (Paris 36) (2009)	" Director Christophe Barratier has not crafted a film for the ages here, but it's a workable, fun piece about family and friendship, full of wonderful songs and musical numbers performed on the Chansonia stage." — Orlando Weekly Posted Apr 23, 2009
3/5	80%	Ashes of Time (2008)	" Redux clocks in at a slightly shorter running time than any of the previous versions Wong has offered. The tighter edit is a better fit, but ultimately, it's not enough." — Orlando Weekly Posted Mar 12, 2009
4/5	96%	Waltz with Bashir (2008)	" As much as the film is about war, it's also about the mutability and self-distortion of memory, and that makes animation the ideal medium to paint battle as the surreal experience it is." — Orlando Weekly Posted Jan 29, 2009
4/5	98%	The Wrestler (2008)	" Pro wrestling is not an easy subject to take seriously, but director Darren Aronofsky displays it well as a spellbinding muscle ballet, sweaty and bloody, but graceful and addictive all the same." — Orlando Weekly Posted Jan 22, 2009

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