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‘This is Where I Leave You’ Leaves Mixed Moviegoing Experience

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|September 16, 2014 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features Film Critic “This is Where I Leave You,” a dramedy based on the best-selling Jonathan Tropper novel and directed by Shawn Levy (“Night at the Museum,” “Real Steel”) focuses upon a lightly-practicing Jewish family brought together by the matriarch (Jane Fonda) whe [...]

Gilliam Revisits Meaning of Life With ‘Zero Theorem’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|September 14, 2014 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director Terry Gilliam’s bombastically bizarre “The Zero Theorem” is a mash-up of themes, stylistic touches and character types from many of his past works, but fails to add up to the sum of those parts. Although this extended exist [...]

Missing Suspenseful ‘The Drop’ Would Be a Crime

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|September 12, 2014 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic A well-chosen cast led by Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and the late James Gandolfini makes this understated and satisfyingly suspenseful film noir drama a great adult alternative to the rom-com retreads and live-action cartoons that litter most multiplexe [...]

Belle and Sebastian Songwriter Murdoch’s ‘God Help the Girl’ Charms

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|September 8, 2014 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch’s endearing directorial debut “God Help the Girl,” like his gloriously retro-only-smarter pop songs, has an undertone of bitter reality that makes its musically transcendent moments all th [...]

‘Two Faces of January’ One of Year’s Best Thrillers

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|August 26, 2014 |0

***Attention Editors: Embargoed until September 21.****** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Classy and classic, “The Two Faces of January” is a deliciously suspenseful film noir drama with an excellent three-person main cast, exotic foreign locations and an unwinkingly re [...]

Style Is Salvation of Second ‘Sin City’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|August 22, 2014 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Like its 2005 “Sin City” predecessor, the wickedly entertaining and literally (yes, literally) eye-popping “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For” is able to make up for a few unfortunate failings thanks to an abundance of divinely aud [...]

‘The Trip to Italy’ is Bellissimo

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|August 16, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features The charming “The Trip to Italy” is the sequel to Michael Winterbottom’s 2010 comedy “The Trip,” starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. In the earlier film, the British comedians played versions of themselves as Coogan went on assignment for a newspaper reviewin [...]

Cage ‘Rage’ and Finochio Out of the Ring

Film Reviews News By Angela Dawson|August 11, 2014 |0

By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter Two new home video releases are centered on characters seeking justice against those who would do their family members harm. The past comes back to haunt a former petty criminal in the crime thriller “Rage,” starring Nicolas Cage. The Image Entertainment fil [...]

Brendan Gleeson Shines as Imperiled Priest in ‘Calvary’

Film Reviews Reviews By James Dawson|July 31, 2014 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The miraculously good “Calvary,” about a steadfastly moral Irish priest (Brendan Gleeson) who is threatened by a bitter molestation victim that he will be murdered in exactly one week, manages to be both a genuinely moving religious alleg [...]

Zom-Rom-Com ‘Life After Beth’ Finds Hilarity in Horror

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 25, 2014 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Life After Beth,” a wickedly funny zombie romantic comedy (zom-rom-com?) in the very tongue-in-cheek tradition of “Shaun of the Dead,” stars Dane DeHaan as Zach, a forlornly mourning boyfriend who regrets all of the things he [...]