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Fuse Film Review: “St. Vincent” — More Than a Formula

November 19, 2014
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Because of first-rate performances, St. Vincent rises above Hollywood’s standard ‘cranky old man finds love through friendship with needy child’ trope.

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Film Review: Jon Stewart’s “Rosewater” — A Film of Skill and Passion

November 14, 2014
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Rosewater is a movie for the idealists, with the implied hope that a principled and conscientious mass media can give the new breed of technologically savvy activists a louder voice.

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Fuse Movie Review: “Force Majeure” — Dad Goes Downhill Fast

November 12, 2014
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You may never taking the family on a ski trip again after watching Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s icily satiric study of a family’s breakdown after a near-disastrous avalanche.

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Movie Review: Inscrutable “Interstellar” — All You Need Is Love?

November 6, 2014
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I don’t want to give anything away. Not that I could because I really had no idea what anyone was talking about, except that what it is really all about is love.

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Film Review: “Hoax_Canular” — Teen Prophets Turn to YouTube to Warn of Doomsday

November 1, 2014
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Hoax_Canular contains many troubling glimpses into private worlds, intimate visions of radical insecurity that are baffling, frightening, and flat-out bizarre.

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Film Review: “Nightcrawler” — A Dark Parody of Getting Ahead

October 31, 2014
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Nightcrawler is a vicious satire of the high stakes required to survive in an American free enterprise system where losers are kicked to the curb and winners take all.

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Fuse Film Review: “Listen Up Philip” — Portrait of the Artist as Sheer Ego

October 31, 2014
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Despite Philip’s self-absorbed claptrap, young, successful women seem to be drawn to him. Go figure.

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Film Review: “Unorthodox” — A Mixed Bag at the Arlington International Film Festival

October 29, 2014
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Unorthodox teases the audience with the come-on that it will be a highly unusual documentary about religion and individual transformation..

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Film Review: “The Class of ’92” — An Excellent Documentary on Six Young Men and the Miracle Years of Manchester United

October 27, 2014
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Filmmakers Ben and Gabe Turner also successfully place the story of Manchester United’s rise in the larger context of what was happening in Great Britain at the time.

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Film Review: “The Irish Pub” — A Too Polite Homage to the Old-fashioned Gaelic tavern

October 26, 2014
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So what’s the verdict on The Irish Pub? A well-meaning film, but lacking in excitement.

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