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Man of Steel 2013
Some enjoyable sequences and elements, especially anything and everything involving Costner, Lane, and Crowe, who all lend a real humanity to the proceedings. However, from the character (under)development to the sad gender dynamics, combined with the film's desire to immerse us in silly cliche yet still have us take it gravely gravely seriously... the film overall left me cold. I don't mind a fun quippy comic book film or a serious moody take, but trying to have your cake and eat it too is not something Snyder and his team are capable of accomplishing here.
My full review: exm.nr/11FWWHN
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V/H/S/2 2013
The first and last segment are technically clever, the second and third segment are just terrific overall. Tonally, the order of the chapters allow for a nice rise and fall of tension, giving us the great laughs of the second piece before the full-blown WTF of the third piece. Clearly a labor of love for diehard horror fans.
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Room 237 2013
Hard for me to give this an actual grade, as that would implies it's an actual movie, when really it's closer to a PowerPoint. The loonier segments have the capacity fascinate (the moon landing guy, in particular), but since we never get to know any of the people behind the theories, it never gets more interesting than occasionally being compelled to mutter aloud, "Well, THAT'S a stretch!" The rest is either exclusively for Shining die-hards or for those who never…
