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• To Rome with Love

  To Rome with Love 2012

  

  Rick Burin ★★★½

  Is this a Woody Allen film? Yes it is.

  Is the main story about a nervy, neurotic Jewish chap becoming smitten with his steady girlfriend's best mate, a flirty, neurotic…

• The Place Beyond the Pines

  The Place Beyond the Pines 2013

  

  Nicholas ★★★½

  For the eagerly anticipated follow-up to his afflicting Blue Valentine, Derek Cianfrance has constructed a two-and-a-half hour reverberation template amongst a tri-sector of intertwined destinies. Despite his previous film who's…

• Mary and Max

  Mary and Max 2009

  

  Nicholas ★★★★ 4

  Astoundingly intellectual tragicomedy presented under the guise of this warm compassion, adorable innocence and an offbeat whimsicality that transforms itself into a harrowing seriousness about mental illness, loneliness and rejection.…

• The Great Gatsby

  The Great Gatsby 2013

  

  Ozols ★★ 6

  Uses of the word "fuck" in Casino: 398.
  Uses of the words "old sport" in Gatsby: 426.

• The Place Beyond the Pines

  The Place Beyond the Pines 2013

  

  Joseph William Lewis ★★★★½

  Just about everything in The Place Beyond the Pines is great, but that first hour revolving around Gosling's Handsome Luke? Absolute fucking magic. Easily my favorite movie of 2013 so…