Arts & Entertainment

Movie Reviews: The Wolverine, The To Do List, Fruitvale Station, The Hunt, I'm So Excited

Find movie reviews written by Patch blogger Mark Glass and other local St. Louis critics.

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The Wolverine  

Mark Glass, Patch blogger"*** For most, if not all, fans of the misunderstood, evil-fighting mutants known collectively as the X-Men (even though many of them are women), Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is the favorite. So why not give him his own vehicle? We meet him in his civilian Logan persona, hiding from painful memories of his violent past in the Alaskan boonies. He’s living so deep into the woods..." Full Review

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Mark Glass, Patch blogger"**** An incident of police brutality just after San Franciscans rang in the new year of 2009 triggered considerable public outrage at the time. It is dramatized here in a riveting reminder of how far we haven’t come in racial equity and understanding. We meet Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), a 22-year-old black man from the East Bay. He’s done felony time, and is trying to get his life together, but struggling..." Full Review

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The Hunt  

Mark Glass, Patch blogger"***½ This subtitled Danish drama is a heartbreaking study in sociology. Mads Mikkelsen stars as a kindergarten teacher in a small town. He’s apparently lived there his whole life, and has plenty of friends. He’s divorced, and trying to convince his ex to give him more time with his teenaged son. He relates well to the kids and his peers..." Full Review

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The To Do List

Alan ScherstuhlThe Riverfront Times"Like first sex, writer-director Maggie Carey's debut feature, The To Do List, is quick and messy, fitfully pleasurable, full of promise but not quite adept at getting everyone off. It's an impossibly huge deal yet also a modest achievement, something we have to go through but that will no doubt be improved upon later..." Full Review

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I'm So Excited  

Joe Williams, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch"Making a movie isn’t exactly like riding a bike, but veteran directors rarely forget the fundamentals of filmmaking. So as soon as we see that the animated credits for a Pedro Almodovar movie evoke a Hitchcock thriller or a Technicolor tearjerker, we know we’re in capable hands. But for the airborne disaster spoof I’m So Excited, those hands are steering his lighter-than-air craft in circles. It’s amusing fluff, but from an Oscar-winning dramatist..." Full Review


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