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Selma
Although it's dramatically uneven, this film is a commendable historical drama about Martin Luther King Jr. that sidesteps the common pitfalls of adulatory biopics.
"...strategy of nonviolent protest cannot exist in a vacuum. Nonviolence needs its opposite – violence – to carry the..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

John Wick
Keanu Reeves and the filmmakers deliver the goods in this well-constructed revenge picture.
"...film sets about fulfilling it in grand displays of violence. A fight coordinator on the Matrix trilogy, first-time director..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

The Equalizer
Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua deliver the action goods one more time.
"...decision to come to her aid. Soon this requires violence, at which he is mysteriously an expert...."

Sept. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Borgman
This Dutch film is a darkly nuanced fable that keeps us consistently off-balance.
"...perverse psychological games, and an ever-lurking threat of impending violence. Perhaps it’s those Danes to the north – I’m..."

June 13, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Sabotage
Ugly and mean-spirited, this Schwarsenegger action film starts off badly, and gets dumber as it progresses.
"...film, until she’s completely squandered at the ending. The violence is always vicious, the catalog of brutally attacked, pornographically..."

March 28, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

3 Days to Kill
Kevin Costner stars in this snappy but contrived mix of international espionage and paternal redemption.
"...books. Its affected blend of absurdist humor and PG-13 violence strives vainly for hip credibility, but it gets a..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Narco Cultura
This documentary about the Mexican drug wars and their relationship to populist narcocorrido music becomes a fascinating study of the cultural cycle of violence.
"...smartly and movingly focuses on the cultural cycle of violence, beginning with a young, Los Angeles-based rapper, Edgar Quintero,..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Getaway
Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez try, but they can't getaway from this action mess.
"...new effort. The film is loaded with action and violence, although not in any logical or accessible way. Exploding..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Facts Were Immaterial
The 'counterintelligence' operations of Hoover's FBI included harassment, vilification, violence – and fake 'underground' newspapers in Bloomington, D.C., and Austin
"..."Our nation is undergoing an era of disruption and violence caused by various individuals generally connected with the New..."

June 7, 2013 News Feature by Dale Brumfield

The New Juarez
This partisan film essay attacks both the United States and Mexican governments for the massive violence in Juarez.
"...its state police. After a six-year period of intense violence and astonishing death tolls, the situation has somewhat calmed..."

April 19, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

G.I. Joe: Retaliation
This overflowing action stew is loaded to the brim with half-formed ideas, action stereotypes, and hints of characters.
"...will point out that this profusion of light, action, violence, and noise is exactly what they want from a..."

April 5, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Reincarnated
In this documentary, Snoop Lion goes to Jamaica to cut a reggae album and reinvent himself – and smoke the ganja, too.
"...Snoop seems to be reckoning with the violence that dogged his past, the peace and love he..."

March 15, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bullet to the Head
Sylvester Stallone is back – the action is loud and pulpy, the quips are ever-ready, and the cycle is unbroken.
"...it’s a big, obvious one, a soap-opera-predictable cavalcade of violence...."

Feb. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Jack Reacher
Tom Cruise stars as the title character of Lee Child's novels in this thriller directed by the writer of Valkyrie and The Usual Suspects.
"...for that oversized character. Cruise also lacks the inherent violence and nearly visceral menace of Child’s Reacher. This violent,..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Louis Black

Parental Guidance
The actors deserve credit for the professionalism they bring to this family comedy stinker.
"...value than the awkwardness factor – the less nudity, violence, and politics a movie has, the better. On this..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Looper
Crackerjack thrills, time travel, violence, humor, and action: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis are characters who share the same morally conflicted core.
"...of a crackerjack thriller, and the bursts of extreme violence, buttressed with black humor, of a modern actioner. (In..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

End of Watch
This believable L.A. cop drama, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena, is from the writer of Training Day, David Ayer.
"...just after they've been tossed into the slipstream of violence and thuggery that is Southeast L.A. following the shooting..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Unconditional
In this inspirational film, a woman loses her faith after her husband is killed in an act of senseless violence.
"...her husband is killed in an act of senseless violence. But, in this inspirational film, she finds it again..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Not Your Average Joe
William Friedkin on serial killers and 'spandex movies'
"...where I begin the journey. In terms of the violence and the sexuality, it sort of grows out of..."

Aug. 3, 2012 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Way
This South Korean epic is a gory and realistic portrait of the horrors of war.
"...and doomed melees clotted with ghastly moments of breathtaking violence consume everything around them – is one of the..."

May 4, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

8 Murders a Day
The drug-related violence occurring in Juarez, Mexico, is the subject of this impassioned documentary.
"...ongoing – and, to all appearances, unstoppable – drug-related violence just south of the U.S. border, and documentary filmmaker..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Into the Abyss
In his latest documentary, Werner Herzog tackles the subject of the death penalty in Texas.
"...ring of hell – a place filled with random violence, Skoal tobacco chewers, and an overall sense of intellectual..."

Nov. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Devil's Double
Saddam Hussein's decadent and monstrous eldest son Uday forced Latif Yahia to serve as his body double, and this movie recounts his experience.
"...director Lee Tamahori (Once Were Warriors, Die Another Day), violence is a recurrent motif, but here he is unable..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Even the Rain
Amid citizen unrest in Bolivia, a Spanish film crew attempts to mount a revisionist history of Christopher Columbus.
"...crew in exile, and she harrowingly dramatizes the escalating violence between Cochabamba locals and the riot police that amass,..."

April 15, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Alone in a Crowd
Why do people not act in the face of violence?
"...many of you have heard about an act of violence that occurred on Sunday outside of Rain on 4th...."

Dec. 27, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Julie Gillis

Leaves of Grass
Edward Norton plays dual roles as twin brothers from Oklahoma in this off-kilter mash-up of comedy and drama that co-stars Susan Sarandon and Richard Dreyfuss.
"...seams of black, Coen brothers-esque comedy and jolting, third-act violence. It's a jarringly realistic hybrid that echoes the more..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Town
Ben Affleck directs, co-writes, and stars in this gripping action-drama about bank robbers.
"...for hatching bank robbers like chickens do eggs. Ingrained violence and OxyContin addiction are casual facts in Charlestown, but..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Killer Inside Me
Director Michael Winterbottom makes some fatal storytelling miscalculations in this screen adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel that stars Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, and Kate Hudson.
"...all women to bloody pulps. Granted, the film’s sadistic violence is somewhat required by the title; however, a director..."

July 30, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

From Paris With Love
Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays an American diplomat in Paris who is paired with a wise-cracking, trigger-happy CIA maverick (John Travolta) to stop a terrorist attack.
"...greater proponents of the American form of mindless film violence and flash-without-substance storytelling. A clear example in From Paris..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bronson
Tom Hardy delivers a searing performance as Britain's so-called "most violent prisoner."
"...as Peterson’s infractions inside began to pile up: insubordination, violence, blackmail, and multiple hostage situations. As his reputation grew,..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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