<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/a/12_atm.htm> ATM
★★ (out of ★★★★)
Now OnDemand - Select Cities 4/6 - There are too many forehead-slapping
moments, too much overt contrivance, and an anticlimactic conclusion that
doesn't add up to as much as one hopes or expects. The actors, however, are
amiable enough that it's too bad they don't have the luck to be in a
romantic comedy.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/f/12_friendswithkids.htm> Friends with
Kids
★★★ (out of ★★★★)
Nationwide - A bewitching romance about more than a boy and a girl, and a
drama about rearing kids that goes blessedly beyond the black and the white.
"Friends with Kids" ultimately feels like vintage Woody Allen, and that's a
very good thing, indeed.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/j/12_johncarter.htm> John Carter
★ (out of ★★★★)
Nationwide - "John Carter" is an oversized beast of clunky storytelling,
groan-inducing screenwriting, and heavy-handed filmmaking, a blending of the
incoherent and the thoroughly uninvolving that left this viewer counting the
minutes until the punishment would all be over.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/s/12_salmonfishing.htm> Salmon Fishing
in the Yemen
★★ (out of ★★★★)
Select Cities - Based on the novel by Paul Torday, "Salmon Fishing in the
Yemen" is inoffensively there at best and outright dull and insignificant at
worst. This could very well be early 2012's poster child for
neither-here-nor-there mediocrity.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/s/12_silenthouse.htm> Silent House
★★★ (out of ★★★★)
Nationwide - "Silent House" weaves an intoxicating spell of dread. As the
focal point for the film's full 85-minute running time, Elizabeth Olsen is a
rapturous force. Remake or not, the provocative "Silent House" has been born
anew.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/t/12_thousandwords.htm> A Thousand
Words
★ (out of ★★★★)
Nationwide - At some point in its inception, "A Thousand Words" might have
meant well. What has reached the screen, however, is unrecognizable, a
desperate, amateurish trifle of confused tonal shifts, ill-advised editing,
and soppy, disingenuous grand-standing. It's not the least bit funny or
touching, and it all goes down about as smoothly as cyanide laced with
rusted nails.
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