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  Jones's The Homesman the Best Western Since Unforgiven As artistically rich as it is emotionally (and spiritually) unsettling. The combination is potent. Jeffrey Huston Feb 17, 2015
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  Inspired by The Song of Solomon, but Feels More Like Ecclesiastes The Song may not make it to the top of the charts but it is (loosely) inspired by Scripture and might be excellent for date night. Susan Ellingburg Feb 10, 2015
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  Alexander's Bad Day is Your Family's Good Time There's something delightfully retro and very-early-Disney about this worthwhile adaptation of the popular children's book. Christa Banister Feb 10, 2015
• Strong Performances Aside, Nightcrawler Recycles Old News Compelling visuals are handicapped by news stories centered on sensationalist local footage that feel a bit dated; we don't learn much. Christian Hamaker Feb 10, 2015
• Compassion for Characters Trumps Poor Decision Making in Laggies Shelton's breakout film helps us feel compassion rather than contempt for her foolish characters, resulting in a 'feel pretty good' film. Christian Hamaker Feb 10, 2015
• Kill the Messenger's Crusading Journalist Concept Has Been Done Better Goes a long way to indict the CIA and mainstream journalists that did the agency's bidding, but in the end it offers no answers or hope. Christian Hamaker Feb 10, 2015
• Eleanor Rigby Not a Feel-Good Film, but a Film That Makes Us Feel Jessica Chastain is absolutely dazzling but a lack of focus and seemingly endless sadness can't help wearing on the viewer after a while. Christa Banister Feb 03, 2015
• The Best of Me is Easily the Worst of Sparks Owns the least plausible and laughably awful ending committed to film in recent memory; nothing but a poor knock-off of The Notebook. Christa Banister Feb 03, 2015
• Hector Searches for Happiness in All the Wrong Places The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a superior treatment of similar themes and the search for meaning and purpose. Christian Hamaker Feb 03, 2015
• Acts of Valor Stir Mixed Emotions in Fury Delivers many of the familiar genre beats of wartime movies, but then goes beyond them, excelling at moments both peaceful and violent. Christian Hamaker Jan 27, 2015
• As with the Rapture, so Too The Remaining: The Best Stuff's Gone from the Get-Go Most of the movie feels un-scary, unsure of its theology, inconsistent in its methods, but there are a few nuggets of subtle quality. Shawn McEvoy Jan 27, 2015
• The Book of Life Deals More in Death and Questionable Truth Full of humor, charming characters, and some interesting life lessons, but quite a lot of it is about death and what happens after. Susan Ellingburg Jan 27, 2015