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Al Hoff

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Mission: Impossible III (2006) 73% EDIT “...what makes this third outing of the M:I franchise rock is [Philip Seymour] Hoffman. Sure, the arthouse darling is slumming here, but his restrained, cold-blooded performance tops any Snidely Whiplash histrionics. ” – Pittsburgh City Paper May 21, 2025 Full Review Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement (2009) EDIT “[An] inspirational documentary about ordinary people quietly leading extraordinary lives.” – Pittsburgh City Paper May 18, 2020 Full Review Transsiberian (2008) 91% EDIT “Unfortunately, it all builds to a last reel that is truly off the rails - a strenuous bit of action-flick silliness seriously at odds with the more low-key, psychological thriller that precedes it.” – Pittsburgh City Paper May 5, 2020 Full Review Cats (2019) 19% EDIT “The film is an unholy melange of humans making cat moves - like head-nuzzling - and "cats" doing human things.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Dec 23, 2019 Full Review Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) 47% EDIT “As a film, it's still amusing, though likely to resonate better with Team Austen than Team Undead.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Oct 28, 2019 Full Review Dead Snow (2009) 67% EDIT “Despite its dusty origins, Dead Snow feels fresh and fun.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Oct 28, 2019 Full Review The Dead (2010) 74% EDIT “A serious, almost contemplative zombie film, with no jokes and snarky homage.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Oct 21, 2019 Full Review Frankenweenie (2012) 87% EDIT “A fascination with things that are dead (or not-quite-dead-yet); a gushing homage for classic horror films; and a gallery of amusing grotesques.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Oct 21, 2019 Full Review Siege of the Dead (2010) 88% EDIT “Kren is working with a small budget, but the compact set serves the story's claustrophobia well and he doesn't waste money on shock-value gore effects.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Oct 14, 2019 Full Review ParaNorman (2012) 89% EDIT “The film's pleasures are in its spooky visuals, amusingly created characters and its indulgence in the cartoonishly macabre.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Oct 14, 2019 Full Review Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006) 67% EDIT “Like an extra-value meal, Poultrygeist offers plenty of what Troma fans want...” – Pittsburgh City Paper Oct 7, 2019 Full Review Isle of Dogs (2018) 90% EDIT “An animated movie about talking dogs set in a not-so-real place gives a filmmaker plenty of leeway to craft a story not beholden to the same old rules, so it's a disappointment to see the female characters get typical short shrift.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Apr 11, 2018 Full Review Ready Player One (2018) 71% EDIT “If a film could collapse in on itself, due to its slavish devotion to a specific subset of 1980s entertainment, Ready Player One would be that black hole.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Mar 29, 2018 Full Review Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017) 95% EDIT “Alexandra Dean's documentary will fill you in on Lamarr's remarkable, if troubled, life.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Mar 21, 2018 Full Review Spoor (2017) 74% EDIT “This movie's natural beauty, drama and mysterious characters are engaging.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Mar 21, 2018 Full Review For Ahkeem (2017) 96% EDIT “Throughout the movie, there is one constant: Daje's smile. You can't help but want to keep rooting for her.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Mar 21, 2018 Full Review The Departure (2017) 100% EDIT “The film, like its main subject, is a quiet exercise in empathy that's likely to leave audiences more hopeful than defeated, if only by a hair.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Mar 21, 2018 Full Review BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017) 99% EDIT “A powerful document of a heartbreaking, yet hopeful, period.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Mar 21, 2018 Full Review The Death of Stalin (2017) 94% EDIT “What better material to employ so many fine comic actors, masters all of the anxious flutter, the pained smirk and the deftly parried bon mot? You don't need to know a lot about mid-century Soviet politics to thoroughly enjoy this film” – Pittsburgh City Paper Mar 21, 2018 Full Review A Wrinkle in Time (2018) 43% EDIT “It never quite hangs together right, stumbling through scenes that mash-up after-school special with the fantastical.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Mar 14, 2018 Full Review 7 Days in Entebbe (2018) 24% EDIT “The "action" -- most of it waiting around -- unfolds over seven days, and ultimately, 7 Days doesn't deliver much more than the TV movies of the 1970s.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Mar 14, 2018 Full Review Love, Simon (2018) 92% EDIT “It's an engaging enough film that even a person long out of high school like myself found it amusing.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Mar 14, 2018 Full Review A Fantastic Woman (2017) 94% EDIT “Some of those advocacy aspects may play a bit broadly with contemporary American arthouse audiences more familiar with trans-rights issues, but this is a Chilean film first.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Mar 7, 2018 Full Review Submission (2017) 51% EDIT “There's an archness to the film that keeps this from devolving into Lifetime melodrama, and a few twists that keep it erring on the side of intentionally provocative rather than hectoring.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Mar 7, 2018 Full Review Game Night (2018) 85% EDIT “Game Night offers a well-trod set-up, but the crack cast make this silly comedy work.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Mar 1, 2018 Full Review
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