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Movie Reviews: The Company You Keep, Mud and More

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The Company You Keep

  • Run Time: 125 mins. 
  • Starring: Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Shia LeBeouf
  • Rated: R

Patch Blogger Mark Glass: ** 1/2 Robert Redford suffers from a relatively mild case of Ego Excess Disorder, compared to other luminaries who direct and star in the same film. Barbra Streisand and Kevin Costner have much worse cases of the syndrome, which makes those films too long, too preachy or otherwise cloying, typically with cameras focused on the boss longer than the story requires. In Streisand’s case, backlighting and other visual enhancements are elements of the diagnosis (e.g. The Prince of Tides). The worst part about this artistic disease is that the patient seemingly thrives, while inflicting pain and suffering on everyone else. Non-attendance is the only known treatment.Full Review

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Mud

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Patch Blogger Mark Glass: *** Welcome back to the bayous, y’all. After last year’s sleeper sensation, Beasts of the Southern Wild, we get another soggy setting for a lesser, but still worthy, coming-of-age drama that’s more about specific characters than a subculture. Here, a couple of teen boys, Ellis and "Neckbone" (one of the coolest nicknames in movie history) find a guy (Matthew McConaughey) hiding on an island in the sleepy backwaters near their small southern town. He spins a romantic yarn about trying to save a damsel in distress (Reese Witherspoon) that leads the lads to want to help him. Full Review

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No Place On Earth

Patch Blogger Mark Glass: ***1/2 For yet another example of human costs suffered during WW II, this docudrama informs us about a few dozen Ukrainian Jews from one village who survived for nearly two years in nearby caves during the German invasion and occupation, having to hide from local authorities, including former friends and neighbors, as well as from the Nazis. Full Review

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