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Dustin Putman's Movie Reviews


Opening This Week:

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/a/12_amberalert.htm> Amber Alert
★★ (out of ★★★★)

VOD & Select Cities - "Amber Alert" is less exploitative than the title
suggests, but too far-fetched to buy into the characters' cockamamie
actions. There is, perhaps, a smart film to be made on the same frightening
subject. This isn't it.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/b/12_bay.htm> The Bay
★★½ (out of ★★★★)

VOD & Select Cities - "The Bay" does not abide by conventional
storytelling, and yet one cannot deny that it is genuinely creepy, a
paranoid environmental horror picture where there is no escape from an
awful fate once infected.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/f/12_flight.htm> Flight
★★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - The film fully transforms into the "Afterschool Special" it's
been flirting with all along, trading tough complexity for strained,
unrealistic patness. "Flight" proves to be both smug and too on-the-nose by
a half.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/n/12_northseatexas.htm> North Sea
Texas
★★ (out of ★★★★)

Select Cities - In the annals of gay cinema about growing up, "North Sea
Texas" is, regrettably, an unoriginal and rather disposable take on a
subject that's been done much better in the past.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/w/12_wreckitralph.htm> Wreck-It Ralph
★★½ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - The story of two underdogs who finally get their day in the
sun, "Wreck-It Ralph" probably won't endure like the best of Disney's
animated canon, but it's a slight, well-meaning entertainment all the same.
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