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‘Café de Flore’ Comes With Reservations

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|October 30, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Beautifully shot, well directed, impressively acted and imaginatively edited, “Café de Flore” unfortunately concludes with a regrettable third act that undercuts the film’s picturesque melodrama with a ridiculously mystical revelati [...]

Epic ‘Cloud Atlas’ Maps Six Past-to-Future Stories

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|October 24, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The dazzling, multi-plotline “Cloud Atlas” is a shuffle-play cinematic carousel with a half-dozen horses of very different colors. Each of the movie’s six connected stories within its 500-year timeline is glimpsed briefly and destin [...]

Gritty ‘Pusher’ Showcases Dynamic Coyle

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|October 24, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Ambitious mid-level drug dealer Frank suffers through a very bad week in the gritty London-noir crime drama “Pusher.” The movie is a showcase for quietly dynamic British actor Richard Coyle (“W.E.,” “5 Days of War,” [...]

Disney’s ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Is a Winner

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|October 19, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Disney’s laugh-out-loud funny, candy colorful and completely charming “Wreck-It Ralph” is one of the best animated movies of the year. This bonus-level winner is worth a stack of quarters whether you are a present-day videogame fana [...]

‘A Late Quartet’ Boasts Virtuoso Performances

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|October 16, 2012 |0

****NOTE TO EDITORS: Release date is Friday November 2, and reviews are embargoed until the week of release (October 29). *** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Like its four emotionally conflicted main characters, “A Late Quartet” has discordant undertones lurking beneath [...]

Screwball ‘Seven Psychopaths’ Is High-Firepower Fun

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|October 11, 2012 |0

*****Release date is Friday October 12, and reviews are embargoed until October 11. ***** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/writer Martin McDonagh’s crazy crime comedy “Seven Psychopaths” is more of a screwball farce than his darkly brilliant 2008 “In [...]

Amped-Up ‘Argo’ Should Have Stuck to Facts

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|October 9, 2012 |0

*****Release date is Friday October 12, but there is no embargo on when reviews can run.****** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/star Ben Affleck’s “Argo” was overpraised with Oscar buzz after early screenings, which is unfortunate. This period piece about [...]

‘Oranges’ Should Have Stayed on Shelf

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|October 5, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Rolling into theaters more than a year after a 2011 festival screening, “The Oranges” is so unappealing and flavorless it should have stayed on the shelf. What’s supposed to be a naughty dramedy about an awkward affair between a mid [...]

Not Much to Relish in ‘Frankenweenie’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|October 3, 2012 |0

*****Release date is Friday October 5, and reviews are embargoed until that date.***** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Frankenweenie”‘s premise sounds like the setup for an offbeat but potentially heartwarming tearjerker. A friendless boy whose dog is hit by a ca [...]

Kidman Delivers in Pulp-Fiction ‘Paperboy’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|October 2, 2012 |0

*****Release date is Friday October 5, and there is no embargo on when reviews can run.***** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/screenwriter Lee Daniels’ “The Paperboy” is a 1960s-set film noir that’s a sweaty and sinister pleasure. Part mystery, part [...]