Articles by Robert Bell

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  The Smurfs 2

  Raja Gosnell

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2013

  When the second instalment of the trashy and over-marketed Smurfs franchise opens, Narrator Smurf provides a breakdown of how Smurfette (Ka...

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  Blue Jasmine

  Woody Allen

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2013

  Like most of Woody Allen's works, Blue Jasmine is highly schematic — most of the characters are merely one-note archetypes, with a bit of f...

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  2 Guns

  Baltasar Kormakur

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2013

  Much like Contraband, the previous collaboration between Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur and Mark Wahlberg, 2 Guns is far more enterta...

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  The Fog: Collector’s Edition [Blu-Ray]

  John Carpenter

  PUBLISHED Jul 31, 2013

  One of the more interesting supplements on this comprehensive release of John Carpenter's stylistically interesting, but thematically dull...

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  Boy

  Taika Waititi

  PUBLISHED Jul 31, 2013

  In 2004, Kiwi director Taika Taititi was nominated for an Oscar for his short film, Two Cars, One Night, which, incidentally, is included w...

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  Dead Man Down [Blu-Ray]

  Niels Arden Oplev

  PUBLISHED Jul 31, 2013

  Amidst the publicity fluff populating the three Blu-Ray supplements on themes, production and aesthetics is the question of determining a t...

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  Thursday Till Sunday

  Dominga Sotomayor Castillo

  PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2013

  Indicative of the languid observational drama about to unfold, the opening scene of Dominga Sotomayor Castillo's debut feature, Thursday Ti...

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  Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain

  Leslie Small

  PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2013

  Before Kevin Hart takes the stage in his exceedingly mediocre Let Me Explain special, the film takes a page from Eddie Murphy's Raw, having...