Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015) Movie Critics Review

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015) Movie Critics Review
Runtime:     132 min
Production:     HBO Documentary Films
Genres:     Biography, Music, Documentary
Country:     USA
Language:     English
Director:       Brett Morgen
Stars:      Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, Krist Novoselic

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015) Movie Review: Kurt Cobain, lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of Nirvana, remains an icon 20 years after his death. Here, we take a journey through Cobain's life and his career with Nirvana through the lens of his home movies, recordings, artwork, photography, and journals.

Cast

Courtney Love

Dave Grohl

Kurt Cobain

Krist Novoselic 

IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4229236

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Mike Hale | New York Times

An exhilarating, exhausting, two-hour-plus film, both an artful mosaic and a hammering barrage ...

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John Anderson | Wall Street Journal

Mr. Morgen is perhaps the leading revolutionary in American documentary filmmaking, a collagist/synthesist extraordinaire who has channeled Mr. Cobain's physical legacy ... into a work of art completely his own.

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Scott Tobias | The Dissolve

Morgen's made an impression of Cobain, which is a much more intuitive and vital enterprise.

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Joshua Rothkopf | Time Out

For a mere 27 years, Cobain's life was unusually well documented, often by himself, and the film feels as vivid as The Devil and Daniel Johnston in delivering an artist's tortured interiority.

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Sara Stewart | New York Post

As the credits roll, it's hard not to just root for the sensitive, progressive, fiercely creative Cobain and wish that he'd lived long enough to find a little peace of mind.

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Alistair Harkness | Scotsman

Though Cobain: Montage of Heck is unlikely to be the last word on the subject - the Nirvana legend is, ironically, far too lucrative now for that - it certainly deserves to be.

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Jonathan Romney | Observer [UK]

The argument for Cobain's brilliance never quite convinces until towards the end, with his MTV Unplugged performance, in which a whole new compelling register to his talent emerges - too late for the film, and alas, for the singer himself.

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Tara Brady | Irish Times

Montage of Heck has a wonderful handmade feel, not unlike Jonathan Caouette's wonderful 2003 auto-doc, Tarnation.

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Patrick Smith | Daily Telegraph

Morgen manages to stay clear of hagiography, instead compiling an exhilarating piece of film-making - one that's fully in keeping with Cobain's virtuosity.

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Geoffrey Macnab | Independent

The film emphasises Cobain's creativity as well as the work ethic that went alongside his well-chronicled drug use.

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Wendy Ide | Times [UK]

The annoying title notwithstanding, Cobain: Montage of Heck does a decent job of capturing the charisma and restless creativity of Nirvana's frontman Kurt Cobain without getting bogged down in hagiography.

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The Wrecking Crew (2015) Movie Critic Review

The Wrecking Crew (2015) Movie Critic Review
Runtime:     101 min
Production:     Lunch Box Entertainment
Genres:     Music, Documentary
Country:     USA
Language:     English   
Director:      Denny Tedesco
Stars:        Lou Adler, Herb Alpert, The Association






The Wrecking Crew (2015) English Movie Critic Review -  The Wrecking Crew Movie Directed by Denny Tedesco. Under Production: Lunch Box Entertainment. In Cinema Mar 13, 2015 with Stars: Lou Adler, Herb Alpert, The Association

IMDB By 7.8 : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185418/

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Jon Caramanica | New York Times 

 Mostly, it's hagiography, with stars like Cher and Brian Wilson used as character witnesses to the players' greatness.
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Christy Lemire | RogerEbert.com 

 It'll make you listen to "Good Vibrations," a song you've heard a million times, with fresh ears.
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Kenneth Turan | Los Angeles Times 

 Though their story has taken decades to reach the screen, it has been worth the wait.
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Mark Feeney | Boston Globe

 Denny Tedesco's lively and loving documentary takes its title from the name collectively applied to the group of two to three dozen Los Angeles studio musicians who dominated rock and pop recordings there during the 1960s and early '70s.
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Chris Nashawaty | Entertainment Weekly 

 With its release held up for seven years because of rights issues, Denny Tedesco's illuminating documentary about the unsung L.A. session musicians who provided the backbeat for some of the greatest songs from the '50s through the '80s can now be seen.
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Ella Taylor | NPR

 The studio musicians rarely got credit on or off the albums. In The Wrecking Crew, Denny Tedesco, whose father was a Wrecking Crew guitarist, rights that wrong.
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Joe Leydon | Variety 

 The unsung heroes who played on stacks of wax during the '60s pop era are celebrated in a hugely entertaining documentary.
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Jim Farber | New York Daily News 

 These unsung heroes are the subject of an illuminating, witty and comprehensive documentary by Denny Tedesco, son of the Crew's inventive guitarist, the late Tommy Tedesco.
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Alan Scherstuhl | Village Voice 

 With a son's love and duty, Tedesco ... breezily celebrates the team that laid down a thousand riffs back just before pop became too serious for anonymous craftsmanship.

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Seymour: An Introduction (2015) Movie Critic Review

Seymour: An Introduction (2015) Movie Critic Review
Rating:     Rated PG for some mild thematic elements
Production:     Under the Influence
Genres:     Biography, Music, Documentary
Country:     USA
Language:     English  
Director:      Ethan Hawke
Stars:        Seymour Bernstein, Ethan Hawke




Seymour: An Introduction (2015) English Movie Critic Review -  Seymour: An Introduction Movie Directed by Ethan Hawke. Under Production: Under the Influence. In Cinema Mar 13, 2015 with Stars: Seymour Bernstein, Ethan Hawke

IMDB By 7.7 : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2219650

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indieWIRE | Eric Kohn
 On the whole, by ceding control to his subject, Hawke makes a persuasive case for Bernstein's guru-like outlook on the value of finding personal gratification in art above all else.
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Rolling Stone | Peter Travers
 The twice Oscar-nominated actor appears onscreen only briefly. Hawke knows where the spotlight belongs. Believe me, the 81 minutes spent in Bernstein's funny, touching and vital presence is something you don't want to miss.
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Variety | Justin Chang
 This first documentary directed by Ethan Hawke happily sidesteps any vanity-project pitfalls, granting full expression to Bernstein's wise and witty commentary on a craft that he's spent decades honing - as well as the proper application of that craft when the demands of art are often outweighed by the pressures of commerce.
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New York Magazine | David Edelstein
 Buoyed by Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, and more, Seymour: An Introduction is lyrical without getting fancy, its director plainly rapt.
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Village Voice | Stephanie Zacharek
 The film Hawke has made - which borrows its title, though little else, from J.D. Salinger - works both as a celebration of Bernstein, whose spirit is at once gentle and boldly generous, and as a way of exploring creativity and the meaning it can have in our lives.
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The Dissolve | Keith Phipps
 Alternating interviews, observational passages, and conversations with past students, Hawke's low-key film never pushes too hard for effect and lets any drama emerge slowly.
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Slant Magazine | Carson Lund
 Ethan Hawke's concentration on Seymour Bernstein isn't a betrayal of his own ego massaging, but rather an attempt to have a genuine soul-bearing conversation.
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The A.V. Club | Mike D'Angelo
 The biggest problem with Seymour, though, is that Hawke can't quite find a structure or rhythm for the movie as a whole. It's only 81 minutes long, and never remotely boring, but the feeling that it's due to end at any moment kicks in around the midpoint and persists right up until it actually does end, like the documentary equivalent of "The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King."
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The Hollywood Reporter | Stephen Farber
 Hawke's film is very well crafted, tightly edited and elegantly photographed. The acute musical selections only add to our appreciation of Seymour's selfless devotion to his art.
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TheWrap | Inkoo Kang
 Hawke is probably too respectful a director and disciple to challenge anything that his subject says, or even query about the vaguest outlines of his personal life.... The title is truth in advertising; “Seymour” really is only an introduction.


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Like Sunday, Like Rain (2015) Movie Critic Review

Like Sunday, Like Rain (2015) Movie Critic Review
Production:     BB Film Productions
Genres:     Drama, Music
Country:     USA
Language:     English  
Director:      Frank Whaley
Stars:        Leighton Meester, Olivia Luccardi, Debra Messing





Like Sunday, Like Rain (2015) English Movie Critic Review -  Like Sunday, Like Rain Movie Directed by Frank Whaley. Under Production: BB Film Productions. In Cinema Mar 13, 2015 with Stars: Leighton Meester, Olivia Luccardi, Debra Messing

IMDB By 6.4 : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3104818

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Neil Genzlinger | New York Times
 It's a bittersweet story that thins out toward the end as it turns too obviously sentimental, but it's still a nicely etched tale of the intersection of two unrelated lives.
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Veronika Ferdman | Movie Mezzanine
 If only Whaley...possessed any singularity of vision, perhaps this rote film would have had a similarly lasting effect.
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Brian Orndorf | Blu-ray.com
Perhaps the best picture Whaley has made to date, able to find purpose and meaning in this friendship, disrupting a formulaic structure with an earnest appreciation of personality.
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Kate Erbland | The Dissolve
 Like Sunday, Like Rain is so out of tune that even late-breaking attempts at emotion can't strike a chord.
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Kam Williams | Baret News
 A tenderhearted lesson in how friendship can be forged in spite of a great gulf in age, class and I.Q.
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Nick Schager | Village Voice 
    Unsurprising given its laughably affected title, Like Sunday, Like Rain boasts what may be the most insufferably precocious protagonist in cinema history.
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Wes Greene | Slant Magazine
Frank Whaley never gives these characters a humanizing moment outside of their default personalities, which turns them into cartoon impressions of the worst of each class.
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Tom Meek | Paste Magazine
 Whaley has given his actress too many dots to connect -- or more than is advisable. No matter though, because Meester, with her natural, easy fit into the role, proves game and goes after those gaps with an indelible marker.
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Justin Lowe | Hollywood Reporter
 A playful tone and passable performances can't overcome an unremarkable premise and predictable plotting.
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Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police (2015) Movie Critic Review

Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police (2015) Movie Critic Review
Production:     Bob Yari Productions
Genres:     Music, Documentary
Country:     USA
Language:     English
Director;     Andy Grieve, Lauren Lazin
Stars:    Stewart Copeland, Sting, Andy Summers





Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police (2015) English Movie Critic Review -  Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police Movie Directed by Andy Grieve, Lauren Lazin. Under Production: Bob Yari Productions. In Cinema Mar 13, 2015 with Stars: Stewart Copeland, Sting, Andy Summers

IMDB By 7.3 :-http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1610013

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Ballet 422 (2015) Movie Review

Ballet 422 (2015) Movie Review
Rating:     Rated PG for brief language
Production:    
Genres:     Drama, Sport, Music, Documentary
Country:     USA
Language:     English
Director:      Jody Lee Lipes
Stars: Justin Peck, Tiler Peck, Sterling Hyltin

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The A.V. Club
“Art isn't easy,” wrote Stephen Sondheim, and in Jody Lee Lipes' bleak beauty of a documentary, the act of creation is a resolutely joyless one - a tedious grind with little lasting reward.

Village Voice Zachary Wigon
Ballet 422 is more visually sumptuous than most narratives you're likely to see this year, featuring careful compositions that make watching the film an aesthetic experience as much as an intellectual one.

The Dissolve Noel Murray
A documentary that's both impressionistic and informative-admiring the magic of dance even in its formative stages, while also turning the making of art into a kind of procedural.

The New York Times A.O. Scott
Ballet 422 elegantly conveys the complex collaborations behind even a relatively modest production, and the toil and discipline that somehow deliver, for the patrons on opening night, a seamless spectacle of grace.

Variety Ronnie Scheib
The documentary moves with the same fluidity that characterizes Peck's choreography.

Slant Magazine Chuck Bowen
Jody Lee Lipes shapes the footage into an intimate symphony of poetically shaped bodies that contrast poignantly with uncertain faces.

New York Post Farran Smith Nehme
A delightfully immersive look at how a ballet is created, Jody Lee Lipes' documentary is a stark contrast to the psycho theatrics of something like “Black Swan.”

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny
The irony of Peck's position is, while he's on the rise as a choreographer, as a dancer he's in a rather more plebian position, which provides the movie with a punchline that Lipes neither overstates nor shrugs off.

The Hollywood Reporter John DeFore
The doc's structure is a countdown to opening night, but planning goes smoothly enough that little drama accompanies that ticking clock.

Tribune News Service Roger Moore
There's no drama, no conflict, and apparently no one told director Jody Lee Lipes that even documentaries require some of that to be rendered watchable.

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