Contributor Matt Bochenski

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Review

Fantastic Mr Fox

by Matt Bochenski

Fantastic Mr Fox will renew your faith in a true American original.

2
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

On the Road

by Matt Bochenski

Walter Salles’ reverent adaptation of this American classic strikes a discordant note.

5
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

Looper

by Matt Bochenski

Meet Looper, by a country mile the most resourceful, vivacious and savage science fiction movie of 2012.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

Lawless

by Matt Bochenski

In his liquor-soaked Prohibition-era drama John Hillcoat offers an imperfect depiction of family, masculinity and authority.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

The Amazing Spider-Man

by Matt Bochenski

Despite a few comic book movie trappings, The Amazing Spider-Man is a major success story.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

Prometheus

by Matt Bochenski

Ridley Scott’s sci-fi saga is an overreaching folly that’s well worth seeing on the biggest screen possible.

5
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

The Raid

by Matt Bochenski

Gareth Evans’ deliriously violent Indonesian martial arts flick is the most exciting action movie of the last decade.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

by Matt Bochenski

There’s adventure all right, and science in spades, but someone buried the piracy in Aardman’s latest stop-motion treasure.

5
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

by Matt Bochenski

Twenty minutes of Dubai-based blockbuster gold aside, Ghost Protocol is kind of flat, inert and not all that exciting.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Review

Another Earth

by Matt Bochenski

Another Earth is original, intelligent and eccentric – a true American indie that deserves to be admired and supported.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

Tyrannosaur

by Matt Bochenski

Paddy Considine’s eloquent, savagely poetic script is grounded in a cinematic idiom of bleached light, bleak estates and broken lives.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

Drive

by Matt Bochenski

Nicolas Winding Refn lets demons loose in the City of Angels with gut-wrenching results.

5
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect

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