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I'm a film critic. I'm a Rutgers University graduate, who was lucky enough to be able to turn a passion for films into a career writing about them.
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‘The Magic Faraway Tree’: Escape to fantasyland

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By James Verniere Verified
| BostonMovieNews
Arriving completely under the radar with little to no fanfare is “The Magic Faraway Tree,” a totally delightful children’s film based on a book by the prolific, late English writer Enid Blyton. Born just in time to be influenced by the likes of J.M. Barrie, Lewis Carroll and L. Frank Baum and to share some interests and themes with C. S. Lewis, Blyton published “The Faraway Tree” in 1943. It was the second of four “Faraway Tree” novels.
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‘The End of Oak Street’ takes a bite out of suburbia

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By James Verniere Verified
| BostonMovieNews
Billed as “From Producer J.J. Abrams and the Director of ‘It Follows,’” the not-very-cleverly-titled, sub-Spielbergian entry “The End of Oak Street” is shamelessly mediocre. Producer-director Abrams has been behind some entertaining films.
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‘Her Private Hell’ finds Nicolas Winding Refn lost in his own neon nightmare

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By James Verniere Verified
| BostonMovieNews
Auteur Nicolas Winding Refn (“Valhalla Rising,” “Drive”), who has made films for Gucci and Prada, has now apparently made a dream-like, feature-length advertisement for an unidentified fashion house. Ten years after his last feature, “The Neon Demon,” which was set in the modeling world, Refn has completed “Her Private Hell,” a film set in some future dystopian metropolis (that again?) mantled in a mystery thick mist from which monsters are expected to emerge.
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