Alex Sharon

Alex Sharon

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  • War on Everyone

    ★★½

  • Detour

    ★★★½

  • War Machine

    ★★★

  • Certain Women

    ★★½

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  • War on Everyone

    War on Everyone

    ★★½

    Man, I pretty much love Michael Peña in anything he's in, especially in quirky and dark comedies, which this one attempts to be. Needless to say, I wanted to really like this one, but what I got was a film trying waay too hard to be different, and what's more, one that continually mistakes random for funny. Just because a scene or character choice is random and off-the-wall, it doesn't automatically give the story humor. In fact, quite the opposite.…

  • Detour

    Detour

    ★★★½

    This one is good. Very stylish. Narratively different than the norm.
     with solid performances, but there is just something that's incomplete about it. Maybe it's that I couldn't buy baby-faced Tye Sheridan as a mid-twenties law student or the lack of development in Bel Powley's character, but whatever it was, it brought this film down a couple of half stars. Nevertheless, it's visually entertaining with a few twists thrown in to keep you from grabing your phone to check your texts.

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  • Boy A

    Boy A

    ★★★★

    This was my first introduction to Andrew Garfield, and it's arguably some of the best work he's ever done on screen in his young career. In my opinion, not many actors have been able to play shy, insecure contrition as well as Garfield in Boy A.

  • Short Term 12

    Short Term 12

    ★★★★½

    Um...Brie Larsen is very, very good.

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