That's a lot of air quotes for one movie review. High-concept science-fiction movies that reinvent everything about real life will do that. Air quotes overload or not, In Time works. It's interesting, cool, fast-paced, and sharply made. Where some movies try a bold sci-fi idea only half-heartedly by just teasing a cool idea superficially, In Time immerses the audiences in all the details and doesn't waver.
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50/50 will have you packing your tissue box to wipe away both tears of sorrow and tears of laughter. It's more than a numbers game, though, in balancing humor with drama. It's not about adding up equal parts. It's about timing your jokes to fall in dramatic places when you need them and in funny places where they work like magic.
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While horror movies, especially the eponymous Halloween series, prominently use Halloween as a staging point, there are a great many non-horror movies that have fun and unique Halloween set pieces as well. For a short and sweet editorial, here are some non-horror cinematic scenes of Halloween and a few clips.
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The scores and buzz are not a mirage. Courageous is simply that good, regardless of who or what you believe in. Yes, it's "preachy" if you want to say that. Yes, it's full of and unashamed of its southern Baptist values, but the film doesn't require a "buyer beware" warning label. That's because it is a compelling journey of the self-improvement and integrity of fatherhood accountability and responsibility that a man of any faith or doctrine can relate to and be moved by.
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The Ides of March astutely sets you on a course of constantly waiting for the other shoe to fall and questioning whether that shoe will multiply into a thunderstorm of explosive Crocs and Uggs.
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Adding all of that up, Real Steel is as crowd-pleasing as it is preposterous. Even if the melodrama, spirit, and emotions are as manufactured and controlled as the robots themselves, I have to admit that they work to create a fun and charming ride that pops off of the big screen and booms in IMAX.
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