Jordan Riefe
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| Publications: | The Deadbolt, Truthdig |
Movie Reviews Only
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| 98% | Whose Streets? (2017) |
Activist Sabaah Folayan and St. Louis artist Damon Davis tell a story the mainstream media mostly neglected. ‐ Truthdig
Read More | Posted Aug 16, 2017
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| 77% | An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power (2017) |
Of course, polar caps continue to melt, and more work needs to be done, but An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, flawed as it is, helps bring awareness to a new generation.‐ Truthdig
Read More | Posted Aug 7, 2017
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| 96% | Endless Poetry (Poesía Sin Fin) (2017) |
If Endless Poetry sounds episodic and a bit nutty, it is, delightfully so, and actually tamer than Jodorowsky's earlier works, sharing with them triumphant glimmer and a casual, unpretentious surrealism.‐ Truthdig
Read More | Posted Jul 20, 2017
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| 100% | Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS (2017) |
Junger and Quested organize the multisourced material in a straightforward chronology, tracing a complicated conflict with roots in the Arab Spring.‐ Truthdig
Read More | Posted Jun 29, 2017
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| 71% | The Commune (Kollektivet) (2017) |
The Commune is grounded in gritty acting at the core of an otherwise drawn-out melodrama.‐ Truthdig
Read More | Posted May 25, 2017
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| 100% | Truman (2017) |
Gay avoids heart-tugging claptrap by aiming for-and achieving-emotional veracity throughout, a rarity in popular cinema.‐ Truthdig
Read More | Posted Apr 20, 2017
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| 97% | The Salesman (Forushande) (2017) |
Farhadi is a master of his craft, a nuanced chronicler of the human condition, whose work unfailingly offers moments of truth and beauty.‐ Truthdig
Read More | Posted Feb 1, 2017
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| 94% | Neruda (2016) |
A clever, playful and, yes, poetic accounting of the literary icon's run for his life from his home country of Chile.‐ Truthdig
Read More | Posted Dec 21, 2016
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| 93% | Newtown (2016) |
Newtown is emotionally active, moving us in ways facts and figures never could.‐ Truthdig
Read More | Posted Oct 24, 2016
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| 36% | Misery Loves Comedy (2014) |
What might have turned out to be a movie about comedy only for comedians is instead a funny and engaging look at the most twisted and naked branch of the entertainment world.‐ Hollywood Reporter
Read More | Posted Apr 17, 2015
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| 4/5 | 64% | Trash (2015) |
With its heavy plotting, Trash hardly aspires to docudrama, yet the trio paint an indelible portrait of youth in crisis that is essential to the movie's success.‐ Guardian
Read More | Posted Oct 20, 2014
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| 3/4 | 38% | Dead Man Down (2013) |
[A] bleak film noir that values character over tension.‐ Boston Phoenix
Read More | Posted Mar 7, 2013
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| 2.5/4 | 59% | Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
Oz the Great and Powerful isn't great, nor is it powerful, but it is competent and entertaining.‐ Boston Phoenix
Read More | Posted Mar 7, 2013
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| 2/4 | 33% | Escape From Planet Earth (2013) |
This might please young kids but torment discerning parents.‐ Boston Phoenix
Read More | Posted Feb 15, 2013
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| 2/4 | 14% | A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
A Good Day To Die Hard is a movie for people who like blowin' stuff up, evidently a favorite pastime of director John Moore, whose action scenes make about as much sense as his script, which was likely written on a cocktail napkin.‐ Boston Phoenix
Read More | Posted Feb 14, 2013
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| 85% | Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Hellboy 2) (2008) |
The first big screen Hellboy felt like del Toro constrained...The sequel feels more like the director on his own terms.‐ The Deadbolt
Read More | Posted Jul 14, 2008
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| 8/10 | 14% | The Love Guru (2008) |
Greetings from The Love Guru, dispenser of wisdom in bite-size chewable chunks, a soulful man of infinite knowledge with three goals on his mind: the Stanley Cup... then Oprah and a shot at his rival, Deepak Chopra, to become the new celebrity prince of s‐ The Deadbolt
Read More | Posted Jun 27, 2008
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| 5/10 | 72% | Wanted (2008) |
They are the deadliest assassins the world has ever known. Genetically enhanced, they execute superhuman feats of death. No target has ever escaped alive. They are the Fraternity. It's not a very imaginative moniker, but then again they are in a movie cal‐ The Deadbolt
Read More | Posted Jun 27, 2008
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| 38% | You Don't Mess With the Zohan (2008) |
Is it funny? The answer is no.‐ The Deadbolt
Read More | Posted Jun 8, 2008
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| 49% | Sex and the City (2008) |
If the new film is any indication of where things are headed in the future, the return of Sex and the City would work much better back on TV as a cable series... on The Lifetime Channel.‐ The Deadbolt
Read More | Posted May 30, 2008
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| 77% | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) |
Even with its flaws, Spielberg and Ford do enough to ultimately make Crystal Skull a terrific addition to the franchise.‐ The Deadbolt
Read More | Posted May 22, 2008
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| 80% | The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) |
Younger fans of the books will undoubtedly love The Spiderwick Chronicles while adults will find it diverting enough to take a break from life given its 97-minute running time.‐ The Deadbolt
Read More | Posted Apr 21, 2008
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| 21% | Semi-Pro (2008) |
Though it isn't the funniest Will Ferrell film, the laughs keep on coming right up to the final buzzer.‐ The Deadbolt
Read More | Posted Apr 21, 2008
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| 53% | Leatherheads (2008) |
Despite its faults, Leatherheads is funny, smart, original, and another fine notch in the belt of the director who seems well on his way to becoming a classic American filmmaker.‐ The Deadbolt
Read More | Posted Apr 20, 2008
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