Just Before I Go (2015) Movie Critic Review

Just Before I Go (2015) Movie Critics Review
Runtime:     95 min
Rating:     Rated R for sexual content, language and some drug use
Production:     Coquette Productions
Genres:     Drama, Comedy
Country:     USA
Language:     English
Home Release Date:     24, April 2015 - May 12, 2015
Director:       Just Before I Go
Stars:      Seann William Scott, Olivia Thirlby, Garret Dillahunt


Just Before I Go (2015) Movie Reviews, Trailer, Clips, Movie News -  Just Before I Go Movie Directed by Just Before I Go. Under Production: Coquette Productions. In Cinema 24,April 2015 with Stars: Seann William Scott, Olivia Thirlby, Garret Dillahunt - Just Before I Go Movie Reviews

IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2980472

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Stephen Holden | New York Times

Lurches along a wobbly line between salacious comic nastiness and nauseating sentimentality.

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Joe Neumaier | New York Daily News

Courteney Cox's misbegotten project is a comedy-drama that, to Cox's credit, doesn't feel at all like a TV sitcom. The former "Friends" star clearly wanted something special, but sadly the result is ... this.

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Daniel Eagan | Film Journal International

Cox must have seen something in this screenplay that encouraged her to film it, but whatever that critical element was, it's not apparent in the finished product.

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Kyle Smith | New York Post

Courteney Cox's directorial debut "Just Before I Go" is a "Garden State" retread in which filthy jokes gradually cede ground to sentimental slush.

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Frank Scheck | Hollywood Reporter

A serious misfire.

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Casey Cipriani | Movie Mezzanine

Fails at finding a balance between its crass jokes and serious subject matter.

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See You in Valhalla (2015) Movie Critic Review

See You in Valhalla (2015) Movie Critics Review
Runtime:     82 min
Rating:     Rated R for language, sexual references and drug use
Production:     Tarnol Group Pictures
Genres:     Drama, Comedy
Country:     USA
Language:     English
Home Release Date:     24, April, May 26, 2015 
Director:       Jarret Tarnol
Stars:      Sarah Hyland, Steve Howey, Odeya Rush



See You in Valhalla (2015) Movie Review: - After the bizarre death of her brother, Johana Burwood must return home after four years to face her quirky family, including her estranged dad, her two competitive brothers and various significant others. The family is uncomfortable with each other at first, and their inner turmoil manifests itself in quarrels and outright fights. Johana is forced to face some secrets from her past....

Cast

Sarah Hyland

Steve Howey

Odeya Rush

Jake McDorman

Bret Harrison 

 

IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3084028/

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Roger Moore |  Tribune News Service

Steve Howey, as a stoner-sage gay Hawaiian personal trainer, almost makes this worth watching all by himself.

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Mike McGranaghan | Aisle Seat

Contains an excess of self-impressed quirkiness that serves no real purpose and goes nowhere.

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Rock the Kasbah (2015) Movie Critic Review

Rock the Kasbah (2015) Movie Critics Review
Production:     Shangri-La Entertainment
Genre:     Comedy
Country:     USA
Language:     English  
Director:       Barry Levinson
Stars:      Bruce Willis, Zooey Deschanel, Kate Hudson





Rock the Kasbah (2015) Movie Review: ROCK THE KASBAH is the story of "Richie Vance," a has-been rock manager who takes his last remaining client on a USO tour of Afghanistan. When Richie finds himself in Kabul, abandoned, penniless and without his passport, he discovers a young girl with an extraordinary voice and manages her through Afghanistan's version of "American Idol," the wildly popular "Afghan Star."

Cast

Bill Murray

Scott Caan
as Kabul

Bruce Willis

Kate Hudson

Zooey Deschanel

Danny McBride 

 

IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3164256

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Mastizaade (2015) Movie Critics Review

Mastizaade (2015) Movie Critics Review
Directed by     Milap Zaveri
Produced by     Pritish Nandy, Rangita Nandy
Written by     Mushtaq Sheikh, Milap Zaveri
Starring     Sunny Leone, Tusshar Kapoor, Vir Das, Shaad Randhawa
Music by     Meet Bros Anjjan, Anand Raj Anand, Amaal Mallik
Production Co.    Pritish Nandy Communications
Country     India
Language     Hindi

Mastizaade (2015) Official Trailer ft. Sunny Leone , Tushar Kapoor , Vir Das And Ritesh Deshmuk


Mastizaade (2015) Movie Review: Mastizaade is an upcoming Bollywood sex comedy film, directed by Milap Zaveri and produced by Pritish Nandy. The film stars Sunny Leone in a dual role alongside Tushar Kapoor and Vir Das while Ritesh Deshmukh will appear in a cameo. The film's shoot began from 7 September 2014 and was wrapped up by December 20, 2014.

IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3726012

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Solid Patels (2015) Movie Critics Review

Solid Patels (2015) Movie Critics Review
Directed by     Saurabh Varma
Produced by     Nitika Thakur
Written by     Rahul Patel
Starring     Shiv Pandit, Shazahn Padamsee, Vaishali Desai
Music by     Sumeet Bellary
Cinematography     Sriram Ganapathy
Country     India
Language     Hindi

Solid Patels (2015) Movie Review: Solid Patels is a 2015 Bollywood Hindi comedy film directed by Saurabh Varma and produced by Nitika thakur. The film stars Shiv Pandit, Kettan Singh, Shazahn Padamsee, Vaishali Desai, Ali Asgar .The film is slated to release on 24 May, 2015. The first look of the film was released on 18 Dec, 2014 and the trailer was launched on 18 March 2015

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Misery Loves Comedy (2015) Movie Critics Review

Misery Loves Comedy (2015) Movie Critics Review
Runtime:     94 min
Production:     Heretic Films
Genres:     Comedy, Documentary
Country:     USA
Language:     English
Director:       Kevin Pollak
Stars:      Amy Schumer, Freddie Prinze Jr., Kevin Smith

Misery Loves Comedy (2015) Movie Review: Jimmy Fallon, Tom Hanks, Amy Schumer, Jim Gaffigan, Judd Apatow, Lisa Kudrow, Larry David, and Jon Favreau are among over 60 famous funny people featured in this hilarious twist on the age-old truth: misery loves company. In-depth, candid interviews with some of the most revered comedy greats who......

Cast

Tom Hanks

Larry David

Jimmy Fallon

Christopher Guest

Jon Favreau

Judd Apatow 

 

IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3132632/

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Drew Hunt | Slant Magazine

Commingling industry shoptalk with introspective insights and wrangling testimonials, the film casts an incredibly wide net, but doesn't reveal much of anything.

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Jordan Riefe | Hollywood Reporter

What might have turned out to be a movie about comedy only for comedians is instead a funny and engaging look at the most twisted and naked branch of the entertainment world.

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Geoff Berkshire | Variety

Whatever it might take to get these admittedly very funny people to truly bare their souls, Pollak doesn't appear to have found it.

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Helicopter Mom (2015) Movie Critics Review

Helicopter Mom (2015) Movie Critics Review
Runtime:     81 min
Official Site:     http://www.helicoptermommovie.com/
Production:     American Film Productions
Genre:     Comedy
Country:     USA
Language:     English
Director:       Salomé Breziner
Stars:      Nia Vardalos, Jason Dolley, Mark Boone Junior

Helicopter Mom (2015) Movie Review: An overbearing mom decides that college would be more affordable if her son were to win an LGBT scholarship, so she outs him to his entire high school. However, he might not be gay.

Cast

Nia Vardalos

Devon Werkheiser

Jason Dolley

Mark Boone Jr.

Skyler Samuels 

 

IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3488668/

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After the Ball (2015) Movie Critics Review

After the Ball (2015) Movie Critics Review
Runtime:     101 min
Official Site:     http://www.aftertheballmovie.com/
Production:    
Genre:     Comedy
Country:     Canada
Language:     English 
Director:       Sean Garrity
Stars:      Portia Doubleday, Marc-André Grondin, Chris Noth

After the Ball (2015) Movie Review: After a young fashion designer runs afoul of her corrupt stepmother and stepsisters, she dons a disguise to help save the family business for her father.

 IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3717016

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Chris Knight | National Post

I mean, give writers Jason Sherman and Kate Melville points for finding a way to shoehorn the Cinderella lost-slipper gag into the screenplay. But then take those points away for the very same reason.

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Randall King | Winnipeg Free Press

Doubleday is a game gamine, and as the wicked stepsisters Hopkins and Krill manage to steal some scenes and win some laughs. Certainly, they help compensate for the film's witty/helpful/catty gay characters.

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Nathalie Atkinson  | Globe and Mail

Certainly, the production values echo those of high-end made-for-TV fare, but the cast and amusing script more than make up for what the movie lacks in gloss.

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Linda Barnard  | Toronto Star

It's pretty much a one-joke effort that wants to be The Devil Wears Prada but plays more like a middling episode of a TV sitcom.

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Adult Beginners (2015) Movie Critics Review

Adult Beginners (2015) Movie Critics Review
Runtime:     90 min
Production:     Duplass Brothers Productions
Genres:     Drama, Comedy
Country:     USA
Language:     English 
Director:       Ross Katz
Stars:      Kevin James, Emily Watson, Ted Levine

Adult Beginners (2015) Movie Review: A young, hipster entrepreneur (Nick Kroll) crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch. With his entire life in disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move in with his estranged pregnant sister (Rose Byrne), brother-in-law (Bobby Cannavale) and three year-old nephew in the suburbs — only to become their manny. Faced with real responsibility, he may finally have to grow up — but not without some bad behavior first.

IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3318750

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Harvey S. Karten | Compuserve

Warm, believable performances by this ensemble.

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat | Spirituality and Practice

A wonderfully cast dramedy about brothers and sisters, growing up, and taking responsibility.

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John Gholson  | Movies.com

Adult Beginners feels more like a baby-step in figuring out how [Nick] Kroll will transition to film star, but the potential is certainly there.

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Michael Roffman  |  Consequence of Sound

Every arc and every twist is predictable from the get-go and the stakes are pretty low given the circumstances. But, there's something truly cozy about this picture. It's comfort food.

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Matt Donato  | We Got This Covered

Adult Beginners benefits from a strong cast that showcases Nick Kroll's ability to blend cynicism and drama, despite working with a story that only offers a few new insights.

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David Nusair  | Reel Film Reviews

An affable (for the most part) little comedy...

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Justin Chang  | Variety

Rose Byrne and Nick Kroll play a sibling duo navigating their shared and respective crises in this warmly appealing dramedy.

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Nikola Grozdanovic | The Playlist

It's not perfect, but as far as feature debuts go, there's very little you can fault "Adult Beginners" for. Slightly pedantic and maudlin at times, with telegraphed metaphors and rushed pacing, it's still hard to call any of these hiccups major flaws.

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Little Boy (2015) Movie Critics Review

Little Boy (2015) Movie Critics Review
Rating:     Rated PG-13 for some mature thematic material and violence
Official Site:     http://littleboymovie.com/
Production:     Metanoia Films
Genres:     Drama, Comedy, War
Countries:     USA, Mexico
Language:     English
Director:       Alejandro Monteverde
Stars:      Kevin James, Emily Watson, Ted Levine

Little Boy (2015) Movie Review: An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.

IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1810683/

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Ed Gonzalez | Slant Magazine

It conveys life experience to such a sentimentalized degree that the world comes to resemble only the sham of a Norman Rockwell painting.

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Stephen Farber | Hollywood Reporter

The entire picture, though well-meaning and even thoughtful, is finally just a little too gooey.

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Tim Grierson | Screen International

A drearily sincere movie about faith and tolerance, Little Boy boasts plenty of good intentions but very little else.

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'The Squeeze' (2015) Movie Critics Review

The Squeeze (2015) Movie Critics Review
Runtime:     95 min
Rating:     Rated PG-13 for some sexuality, language, drug material and thematic elements
Production:     JAM Films
Genres:     Drama, Sport, Comedy
Country:     USA
Language:     English    
Director:       Terry Jastrow
Stars:      Jeremy Sumpter, Jason Dohring, Katherine LaNasa

The Squeeze (2015) Movie Review: A notorious gambler discovers a modest young man in a small rural town with uncommon golf skills. Seeing his potential, the gambler convinces him to abandon his dreams of winning the US Open and start playing in high-stakes matches. They don’t lose. The stakes grow higher and higher until the game becomes “life or death.”

IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3248600

Reviews By Critics For 'The Squeeze' (2015)

Frank Lovece  | Film Journal International

Worthy addition to the annals of golf movies and a decent gambling-caper film, marred by a subpar final act.

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Odie Henderson | RogerEbert.com

Here's a movie that would benefit from being broken up by late-night television commercials.

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Robert Abele | Los Angeles Times

Between plot and character, there are definitely 18 holes in "The Squeeze."

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Frank Swietek | One Guy's Opinion

Won't efface memories of the best caper pictures. Golfers, however, may well find it a pleasant diversion. At least it shouldn't tee them off.

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Josh Kupecki | Austin Chronicle

A third act twist renders everything null and void and seriously strains anything mildly resembling reality.

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“The Squeeze” is a an old fashioned tale of gamblers, golfers, the good girl next door and the temptations of the easy life.

the allurements of the simple life. It's so dated that you may think, for 60 minutes or more, that its a religious dramedy. At that point the irreverence is dialed up, the sexuality shows itself, the conning steps middle of everyone's attention and the risk of viciousness weaving machines. An ethical quality story, yes. Not a religious one.

Yet the plot and characters truly do make you think about whether the author chief has encountered this present reality, and not simply the world as seen in "The Sting" or "Tin Cup" or "The Flim-Flam Man."

We meet Augie  as he and friends frolic through the small town they live in, playing a spirited game of early morning “cross country golf.” That’s one ball, one club, sprinting from a fixed spot in town to a finish at a hole on a local course - no holds barred.

Augie can do most anything with a golf club. Natalie "Jillian Murray" is really great at crosscountry golf, as well, so long as she can simply wear a games bra  to divert the young boys.Augie goes ahead to win a nearby beginner competition later that day, because of "diligent work, faith in the Almighty and stunning ability," he says. That gets the consideration of a trickster who passes by the name "Stream Boat."

Cute. Corny, but cute. Christopher MacDonald makes what he can of this walking anachronism, paired up with his sidekick, “The Bank” (Katherine LaNasa).
The kid is just the ticket for a few high stakes golf hustles River Boat has in mind.
Natalie isn’t impressed, but Augie needs money and before she can stop him, he “signs a deal with the devil.” And before she knows it, they’re off to Vegas.

"I've never been to Vegas." 
"You've never been to Hell, either!" 
Since we've seen the hawker light-fingering a congregation gathering plate, we've been set up for a light joke/ethical quality story. At the same time author chief Terry Jastrow never takes a few to get back some composure on tone. "Press" is never sufficiently entertaining, MacDonald never entirely cuts free, never at any point charms us in the way of the fantastic nonsense man.

The fun guaranteed by a "Screamin' Jesus" high stakes golf match is a guarantee unkept. Too minimal great will has been developed before The Heavy, Jimmy Diamonds shows up and "The Big Match" sets up. And the ending is such a far-fetched fiasco that you wonder why the veterans in the cast didn’t warn the director away from it.

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'The Road Within' (2015) Movie Critics Review

The Road Within (2015) Movie Critics Review
Runtime:     101 min
Rating:     Rated R for language throughout, some sexual content/nudity and drug use
Official Site:     http://www.wellgousa.com/theatrical/the-road-within
Production:     Troika Pictures
Genres:     Drama, Comedy
Country:     USA
Language:     English    
Director:       Gren Wells
Stars:      Zoë Kravitz, Robert Patrick, Dev Patel

The Road Within (2015) Movie Review: A man with (Robert Sheehan) Tourette's syndrome brings his OCD roommate (Dev Patel) and an anorexic woman (Zoë Kravitz) along on a road trip to bring his late mother's ashes to the ocean.

 IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2962876/
Reviews By Critics For 'The Road Within' (2015)

Katie Walsh | Los Angeles Times

"The Road Within" suffers from midfilm wandering and a hasty ending, but the message of self-acceptance rings true and clear.

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat | Spirituality and Practice

A quest drama that fizzles out quickly.

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Brian Orndorf | Blu-ray.com

Competently acted, offering moments of behavioral clarity that are truly something to see, but it's not a complete depiction of need, frequently resorting to distraction instead of tackling problems head-on.

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Graham Fuller | New York Daily News

Riveting, full-blooded performances from the young leads and a tough-love ending raise it above what you may expect.

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It seems like the ideal setup for a fabulous weak joke: A kid with Tourette's, an anorexic young lady, and a fanatical habitual flawless monstrosity take an auto and head for the shoreline. Had author chief Gren Wells demonstrated simply a touch more contemptuousness or brave or inventiveness, The Road Within could have given a whopper of a punchline.

But this is, of course, a movie about affliction, and it ultimately succumbs to the bland, sentimental uplift we've come to expect from such outings. After his mother dies, Vincent  is installed at a mental institution by his cold, career-obsessed father.

It's The Odd Couple meets Rain Man meets Benny & Joon, as Marie and Vincent strike up a provisional sentiment, lose tolerance with Alex, and afterward kindly attempt to bring Alex out of his phobic shell. Wells' couple of endeavors at stun esteem - in independent, profane fits, Vincent calls his cleric a pedophile and Alex a progression of racial slurs - are wan and constrained. None of the characters are fleshed sufficiently out to ingest or even delight. What's more, if this is the last film wherein background noise out the sound amid a beatdown scene, we'll be in an ideal situation for.

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'Closer to the Moon' (2015) Movie Critics Review

Closer to the Moon (2015) Movie Critics Review
Runtime:     112 min
Production:     Mandragora Movies
Genres:     Drama, Comedy
Countries:     USA, Poland, France, Italy, Romania
Languages:     English, Romanian
Director:      Nae Caranfil
Stars:      Vera Farmiga, Mark Strong, Harry Lloyd

Closer to the Moon (2015) Movie Review: A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of old friends from the World War II Jewish Resistance to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.

 IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017486/

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At the point when Max Rosenthal .first pitches his four long-lasting comrades on holding up a protected auto in 1959 Bucharest, Alice ., his accessory to-be and mother of his child, thoughtfully comments in voiceover that he's the stand out considering this thought important. That supposition generally as suitably applies to Closer to the Moon's author executive, Nae Caranfil, who strangely swears off the bounteous elegiac parts of his film's real material for a tone approaching the chipper. In spite of the fact that the film is in view of the genuine story of the Ioanid Gang, Jewish erudite people who executed a challenging bank heist inside socialist Romania and were compelled to film a narrative reproducing their theft, Caranfil changes the names of those included, obviously to secure the effectively found-blameworthy, and recounts the story from the perspective of an altogether made-up character, wide-looked at Virgil.


Virgil, an aspiring filmmaker, sees the actual heist in progress, fooled like everyone else into believing—in an emblematic touch—that it's merely a movie shoot. Film possesses the power to influence the masses, which is precisely why the Romanian government forced the real-life players to reenact their nefarious deed, a means of engendering anti-Semitic propaganda by implying the thieves' intended to fund lavish lifestyles. While the genuine motivation for the gang's heist has forever been open to speculation, Closer to the Moon posits that these high-ranking Romanians grew so disillusioned with the autocratic socialist regime that they sought to strike a symbolic blow. It's an intriguing hypothesis, yet one for which Caranfil provides scant evidence.

Though the filmmaker recounts this story through the prism of the documentary's production, he resorts to conspicuous sentimentality, turning the movie set into a light-hearted fairy tale where the director is a "comic" drunk and the prisoners wind up calling the shots. Worse, the government agent (Anton Lesser) on set claims not to even know the robbers' motives, contradicting the real-life recreation's considerable agitprop.

Caranfil isn't so much unable as unwilling to pull back the front of the Potemkin paradise which has apparently caused these characters to lash out, providing no sense of the injustice under which they claim to toil, and offering virtually no insight into the gang's previous lives as supposedly heroic agents of resistance. As such, their presumed gallows humor comes across like careless indifference, marking them less as "Romanian Robin Hoods" than frivolous nihilists who would rather pass on than lead lives of ennui. Given an opportunity to reclaim the gang's narrative, Caranfil disappointingly declines, opting for sugary Hollywood confection. All these years later, once again, they die in vain.

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"Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2" (2015) Movie Critic Review

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015) Movie Critic Review
Runtime:     94 min
Rating:     Rated PG for some violence
Production:     Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)
Genres:     Action, Comedy
Country:     USA
Language:     English
Director:      Andy Fickman
Stars:        Kevin James, Raini Rodriguez, Eduardo Verástegui

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015) Critic Review: Security guard Paul Blart heads to Las Vegas to attend a Security Guard Expo with his teenage daughter Maya (Raini Rodriguez) before she departs for college. While at the convention, he inadve…

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Christopher Lawrence | Las Vegas Review-Journal

During Blart's awkward convention speech, a fellow security guard is so inspired, she yells out, "You go Paul Blart!" Yes, Paul Blart. You go. And take everybody involved with this mess with you.

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Dave White | Movies.com

Kevin James and Nick Bakay are credited as screenwriters, but that's only because "Taking Naps" and "I Went Out To Get A Sandwich" are not Writer's Guild credits yet.

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Alonso Duralde | TheWrap

A movie whose chuckles (six, I counted) are outnumbered by helicopter shots of the Wynn resort in Las Vegas.

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Andy Webster | New York Times

You won't find much offensive in Kevin James's slick, innocuous vehicle Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2. You won't find much prompting an emotional reaction in general, so familiar are the jokes and situations.

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Nathan Rabin | The Dissolve

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 takes a page from the Think Like A Man Too playbook by moving its sequel to Las Vegas, and a page from seemingly every other bad sequel by essentially remaking the original.

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Chris Knight | National Post

The plot is full of gaps in logic, motivation, physics and chemistry. Characters show up and vanish again as randomly as the targets in a game of Whac-a-Mole.

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Peter Howell | Toronto Star

Caddyshack 2. Exorcist 2. Speed 2. To this small sample of the ever-expanding list of wretched movie sequels, add Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, a gobsmackingly witless excuse for entertainment.

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Josh Lasser | IGN Movies

The proceedings are at their best when focusing on Blart's relationship with his daughter, but sadly that human element is forced to take a backseat to Blart's stopping a heist.

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Kevin P. Sullivan | Entertainment Weekly

Far from the worst movie that you'll ever see, but you might leave wondering why you, the people on the screen, or anyone else in the theater even bothered.

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Sandy Schaefer | ScreenRant

Die-hard Kevin James fans will get additional mileage from it, but Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is a pretty easy pass for everyone else.

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Bruce Kirkland | Jam! Movies

It is listless, boring and as flat to the floor as Paul Blart when he slams down in a coma or gets knocked down by a villain, a vehicle or a horse's hind hoof.

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Josh Bell | Las Vegas Weekly

Like the first movie, Mall Cop 2 suffers from indifferent plotting and apathetic jokes that often don't appear to have punchlines.

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Bill Gibron | Film Racket

Nothing here is remotely salvageable

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Joe Neumaier  | New York Daily News

The cinematic equivalent of biting into an old brown banana.

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Christy Lemire | RogerEbert.com

Truly, there is not a single redeeming moment in director Andy Fickman's film. A general flatness and lethargy permeates these reheated proceedings.

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Bilge Ebiri | New York Magazine/Vulture

Nobody was expecting much from Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, but did it have to be this unimaginative and lifeless?

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Brian Orndorf  | Blu-ray.com

Even with six years of preparation, the sequel feels slapdash, too reliant on James to bring the funny, and he's clearly struggling throughout this awkward return engagement.

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In the Courtyard (2015) Movie Critic Review

In the Courtyard (2015) Movie Critic Review
Runtime:     97 min
Official Site:     https://www.facebook.com/danslacour.lefilm
Production:     Canal+
Genres:     Drama, Comedy
Country:     France
Language:     French
Director:      Pierre Salvadori
Stars:        Catherine Deneuve, Gustave Kervern, Féodor Atkine

In the Courtyard (2015) Critic Review: Antoine is too depressed to go on playing in his rock band. After wandering in the streets, he decides to seek an occupation. Unskilled as he is, he is lucky to be hired as the caretaker of an old Paris apartment building. He soon proves good at his job, even if he performs it a little eccentrically, and everybody grows fond of him. Antoine also develops a particular friendship with Mathilde, a recently retired woman who lives in the block and whose mental balance is deteriorating...

IMDB By 6.5 : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2593224/

In the Courtyard Movie Review By MDBReviews

The harrowed are Antoine and Mathilde, and their science gives the element that powers Salvadori's eccentric representation. Antoine is an artist who no more takes delight in music; a profoundly discouraged sleep deprived person, he needs a change. He winds up filling in as a janitor in the loft building claimed by Mathilde and her spouse, Serge, and his misinformed, hapless endeavors to carry out his employment give the premise to a great part of the story.

Weathered down by life, Antoine is too despondent to enforce the complex's rules: He's soon smoking crack with one of the tenants and allowing a homeless man, Lev , to live there illegally. Salvadori's refusal to judge Antoine lends a detached, almost comical air to the proceedings, building to a hilarious sequence where a fastidious architect tenant's model building is eaten by Lev's mutt.

The narrative turns with Mathilde's own mental issues: After a crack appears in her wall, she begins to suspect the foundation's stability may be in danger, and mounts an investigation into the structure's integrity that begins to erode her mental health. As her sanity slips and her marriage strains, the broken Antoine provides emotional support for the increasingly harried Mathilde. It's in the portrait of these compromised individuals' relationship that the film finds its emotional heft.

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