Dustin Putnam's movie reviews

Opening This Week:

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/h/13_hanselandgretel.htm> Hansel &
Gretel: Witch Hunters
★★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - Expends its standout moments by the ten-minute mark and can
never quite capture the same palpable danger, atmosphere, and imagination
again. What follows isn't bad so much as it is uninspired, running in
circles while wearing the viewer down with one too-quickly-cut action scene
after the next.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/m/13_movie43.htm> Movie 43
★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - Appalling, sleazy, disgusting, and an offense against juvenile
humor. Alas, all the talent in Hollywood and beyond couldn't make "Movie 43"
watchable. It will, however, go down in infamy, that you can be sure of.
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3 out of 4 this weekend

Opening This Week:

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/a/12_amour.htm> Amour (2012)
★★★ (out of ★★★★)

Select Cities - "Amour" is a tough, demanding drama, one that many viewers
will not wish to face precisely because of its truthfulness. A confident,
lovingly articulated mood piece about a subject that is universal, yet
rarely told.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/g/13_gangstersquad.htm> Gangster Squad
★★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - It's the sort of film that fails to give its audience anything
but a shrug to take away with them. Judged on its own singular merits, the
picture is as terminally empty as it is slick, at any point threatening to
puncture itself with its own put-on-a-show, go-getter artificiality.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/h/13_hauntedhouse.htm> A Haunted House
½ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - It only took two weeks into 2013 for a film to reserve a
surefire place on my end-of-the-year bottom ten. "A Haunted House" runs a
scant 86 minutes, but it's a painful 86 minutes, seeming twice as long and
more punishing by the second.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/z/12_zdt.htm> Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
★★★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - Dense, gritty, sumptuous, and free of superfluous melodrama.
There is something immensely gratifying with being made privy to the
tireless work and maneuverings of the military and CIA, the viewer
experiencing the jobs vicariously through the figures on screen.
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