Short Term 12

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“Short Term 12” (one of the best reviewed films of the year) is the kind of movie that is so real…you forget you are watching actors acting.
Brie Larson gives a rich…but subtle performance as Grace, a supervisor of a group home for at risk teenagers, whose own demons surface when a new young girl with a similar past arrives.
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Would Grace really go that far?

Rated R
1 hr. 36 min.

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Prisoners

☆☆☆☆

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Academy Award nominee Hugh Jackman gives an intense emotional performance as Keller Dover, a man faced with trying to put the pieces together to find his missing daughter, Anna. All signs point to the Alex Jones (excellent performance by Paul Dano), a mysterious man seen in the neighborhood around the time Anna went missing.

“Prisoners” is the kind of movie that keeps viewers on the edge of their seats…wondering who is responsible.
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Hugh Jackman’s character was a little too intense…maybe “over directed?”

The “maze” was never explained sufficiently??

Rated R
2 hr. 26 min.

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The Spectacular Now

☆☆☆1/2

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Shailene Woodley (The Descendants) gives another excellent performance as Aimee Finicky in Tim Tharp’s engaging teen dramedy about two high school seniors who make an unexpected connection.
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Miles Teller also turns-in a strong performance as Aimee’s unlikely new friend Sutter Keely.
It’s difficult to buy this high school kid who seems to have a drink in every scene with little or no objection from any adults.

Rated R
1 hr. 35 min.

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In a World...

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Writer/Director/Star Lake Bell offers-up some smiles as a woman trying to break into the male dominated world of voice-overs.
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This movie just doesn’t make breaking into this “world” all that interesting.
Her father is written as a jerk…who comes-around in the last few minutes.

Rated R
1 hr. 33 min.

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The Wolverine

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Hugh Jackman is by far the best thing about “The Wolverine” a sequel (or not) to 2009’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”

In this fast-paced action adventure, Wolverine travels to Japan where he is forced to consider his own immortality.
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In spite of Jackman’s solid performance, the movie just isn’t that good.
It’s becomes more of a shoot-em-up and stab-em-up than a real story.

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Rated PG-13
2 hr. 16 min.