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Film review: Lucy

August 7, 2014August 8, 2014 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Effortlessly referencing films as disparate as Nymphomaniac, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Transcendence, although with a deliberate lack of seriousness,

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Film review: Magic in the Moonlight

August 7, 2014August 8, 2014 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Woody Allen has a history of making his audience believe that the world he puts up onscreen is real, to

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Film review: Guardians of the Galaxy

July 31, 2014May 10, 2024 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Chris Pratt may be alternatively annoying and endearing as Andy in the television series Parks and Recreation, but as a

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Film review: The Purge: Anarchy

July 31, 2014August 4, 2014 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Perhaps the best thing about The Purge: Anarchy is its not-so-veiled criticism of the violence that the aggressive policies of

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Film review: 22 Jump Street

July 10, 2014May 10, 2024 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

The word “franchise” is not used explicitly, but it is embedded throughout this self-conscious film whose entertainment value vastly outweighs

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Film review: Boyhood

July 10, 2014July 10, 2014 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Sprawling but not unwieldy, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood takes the eventful but not overly dramatized life of an ordinary teenager from

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Film review: Can a Song Save Your Life? (Begin Again)

July 10, 2014July 10, 2014 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

She is all about authenticity and giving the music industry the middle finger. She has some talent, but she is

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Film review: Deliver Us from Evil

July 3, 2014July 3, 2014 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Opening in the Czech Republic the day before the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is scheduled to start, the religion-oriented

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Former empire celebrates anarchist of the century

June 29, 2014June 29, 2014 Andre Crous of The Prague Post Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic

Perhaps no 19-year-old in the history of the world has had as much influence on the subsequent 100 years of

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