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Lewis Beale

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From Beyond (1986) 74% EDIT “While it is well-handled, "From Beyond" simply isn't anything new or special.” – Los Angeles Daily News Oct 19, 2025 Full Review Child's Play (1988) 64% EDIT “Child's Play may be nothing new, but it's a devil-doll film that has been made with real style. ” – Los Angeles Daily News Jun 5, 2025 Full Review Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) 90% EDIT “Heartbreaking and heartwarming.” – Newsday May 31, 2018 Full Review Listen Up Philip (2014) 82% EDIT “If the point of Listen Up Philip is that talented people can also be colossal jerks - well, that's about as eye-opening as saying that pizza is a hugely popular menu item.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Aug 1, 2015 Full Review Horns (2013) 41% EDIT “At nearly two hours, "Horns" is about 30 minutes longer than it needs to be. But it's doubtful even a shorter version would cure what ails this film. Maybe you have to be tripped out on LSD to appreciate it.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Aug 1, 2015 Full Review The Trip to Italy (2014) 88% EDIT “You wish they'd challenged themselves a bit more with this film, and not gone the "if it worked once, let's do it again" route.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Aug 1, 2015 Full Review Red Army (2014) 92% A- EDIT “All this is told with a brilliant mix of archival footage and interviews, with Fetisov, now back in Russia and minister of sport, providing much of the commentary.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Aug 1, 2015 Full Review The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013) 68% B EDIT “It's not that The 100-Year-Old Man doesn't have its pluses. The cast is totally game for this nonsense, and some of the comic riffs are truly inspired... But in the end, Herngren's film is simply too much of a good thing.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) May 22, 2015 Full Review Far From the Madding Crowd (2015) 85% B- EDIT “While [Far From the Madding Crowd is] beautiful to look at, [it] suffers from inconsistent direction and the miscasting of the lead female role.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) May 21, 2015 Full Review Tomorrowland (2015) 49% B EDIT “It's kind of an unholy mess, but never less than interesting and engaging.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) May 21, 2015 Full Review Merchants of Doubt (2014) 86% B+ EDIT “A chilling documentary showing how the cigarette, asbestos, fossil fuel and other industries manipulate scientific evidence.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Apr 17, 2015 Full Review Serena (2014) 17% D+ EDIT “Serena is soon to wind up on someone's list of "worst book-to-movie adaptations." Count on it.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Mar 26, 2015 Full Review Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014) 100% A+ EDIT “An overwhelmingly intense film about an Orthodox Jewish Israeli woman trying to get a religious divorce.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Mar 12, 2015 Full Review Maps to the Stars (2014) 63% B EDIT “David Cronenberg has fashioned a distinguished career making films about death, disease, sexual perversity and violence. But it's doubtful he's ever directed anything as scabrous and self-loathing as Maps to the Stars.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Feb 26, 2015 Full Review McFarland, USA (2015) 80% B+ EDIT “Uplift doesn't come much better than this.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Feb 19, 2015 Full Review Still Alice (2014) 85% B EDIT “Still Alice benefits from solid acting down the line -- Kristen Stewart is especially fine as Moore's struggling actress daughter -- but it exists in a rarefied world of privilege unknown to most Alzheimer's patients.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Feb 13, 2015 Full Review Cake (2014) 49% B- EDIT “In Cake, Aniston shows that she's got the goods, the ability to delve into a complex, not particularly likable, character and make her thoroughly believable. If only the film were as good as its star.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jan 22, 2015 Full Review Blackhat (2015) 33% B+ EDIT “Mann may not be at the top of his form here, but Blackhat is still proof that even in a flawed work, he is a master filmmaker.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jan 16, 2015 Full Review Selma (2014) 99% B+ EDIT “Selma is about America at its worst -- and very best.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jan 9, 2015 Full Review Wild (2014) 88% B EDIT “[Witherspoon's performance is] a compelling, and fully lived-in, piece of work.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jan 1, 2015 Full Review Top Five (2014) 85% B+ EDIT “Top Five is filled with the kind of smart, lewd dialogue that has made Rock a standup god. And for the first time in his career, Rock has the authority, charisma and screen presence of a real movie star.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Dec 12, 2014 Full Review The Theory of Everything (2014) 81% B EDIT “Enhanced by a brilliantly transformative performance from Eddie Redmayne as Hawking, director James Marsh's film is professional in every respect. But it takes itself way too seriously.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Nov 26, 2014 Full Review Whiplash (2014) 94% B+ EDIT “A love poem to big band jazz and the dubious pleasures of sadistic mentoring, Whiplash is a movie version of a steel cage death match.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Nov 14, 2014 Full Review Pride (2014) 93% A- EDIT “Directed with economy and beautifully acted by all concerned (Staunton, in female battle-ax mode, is particularly great), Pride ends on a note that is guaranteed not to leave a dry eye in the theater.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Oct 31, 2014 Full Review Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2010) 86% EDIT “Although attitude is more important than plot in spoofs like this, Tucker & Dale's storyline does have the right sort of momentum.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Oct 21, 2014 Full Review
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