'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.”

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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 Movie Review By MDBReviews

“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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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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