About Author: Lloyd Bayer

Description: Besides his passion for travelling, photography and scuba diving, Lloyd is a prolific film critic having contributed hundreds of film reviews to web and print journals, including IMDb and local daily Khaleej Times.

Posts by Lloyd Bayer

Fast And Furious 6

Posted on May 23, 2013 | 1 Comment
As a summer opener, Fast And Furious 6 not only revs up the fun-o-meter, but also hurtles past other action film franchises. Bruce Willis, you listening?
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Iron Man 3

Posted on May 2, 2013 | No Comments
IRON MAN 3 does have some stylized moments that are genuinely entertaining, but most of it feels clunky and disappears under the sheer weight of previous films in the franchise.
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The Host

Posted on April 18, 2013 | No Comments
Fundamentally flawed from the beginning, THE HOST becomes terminally ill when the premise of an alien invasion takes a back seat, only to be replaced by an inter-galactic ‘love conquers all’ theme.
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Friends With Kids

Posted on April 11, 2013 | No Comments
Friends With Kids is an atypical romantic comedy that takes a stab at what causes fairy-tale weddings to end in a train wreck.
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Evil Dead

Posted on April 4, 2013 | No Comments
The new EVIL DEAD relies heavily on multiple references to the original without so much as exploring creative individuality.
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Oz The Great And Powerful

Posted on March 7, 2013 | No Comments
Oz The Great And Powerful celebrates cinema’s core ethos of ‘Make Believe’ even if some viewers find that it lacks the magical impetus of the 1939 original.
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Parker

Posted on February 28, 2013 | No Comments
Parker suffers from a disappointing script and a tapered ending that not even Oscar-winning director Taylor Hackford can fix.
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$Broken City suffers from multiple fractures that not even its award-winning star cast can mend.$
Broken City

Posted on February 7, 2013 | No Comments
Broken City suffers from multiple fractures that not even its award-winning star cast can mend.
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Lincoln

Posted on January 31, 2013 | No Comments
Lincoln is not just a masterpiece or a very important and powerful film for the sake of calling it so. By its very making, director Steven Spielberg has written the greatest obituary for one of the greatest leaders of the modern world.
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Deadfall

Posted on January 28, 2013 | No Comments
Deadfall is a non-stop crime-thriller that gets off to a good start, then breaks away at the seams and ends with a weak conclusion.
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