AuthorKendall Grant

A Trio of Film Reviews, Currently in Theaters

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Kendall Grant
In Arts & Culture
January 20, 2014
7 Min read
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American Hustle (2013) 3/4 Deviously antic, deliriously energetic, and unrepentantly jumbled, American Hustle is a stereotype-drenched piece of cockeyed comedy and a pratfall-ridden work of dazzling showmanship. It’s juicy, relentless, dizzying, diverting, and works from the feet up, leaving you revved and tickled. Writer-director David O. Russell has mashed up a larcenous cast from his last two...

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A Trio of Film Reviews, Currently in Theaters

By
Kendall Grant
In Arts & Culture
November 18, 2013
5 Min read
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Blue Jasmine (2013) 3/4 Delightful, tonally sound, and uncomfortably hilarious, Blue Jasmine finds Woody Allen back in fine form after a schizophrenically inconsistent string of films that ran the gamut between pleasantly diverting (see: Midnight in Paris) and maddeningly sketchy (see: To Rome with Love). Much of the film’s success has to do with Cate Blanchett’s marvelous performance as the...

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