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  • April 1, 2012

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    Bully (***)

    "Bully" gives an authentic look in our school system...

    April 1, 2012

    Any review of the new documentary ‘Bully’ is of course going to have to mention the ratings controversy that’s come along with the film. After all, The Weinstein Company acquired the flick and Harvey Weinstein is nothing if not a master of milking publicity out of anything. It was no doubt surprising that the MPAA gave the doc an ‘R’ rating instead of a ‘PG-13′ (I’ll get to the rating more later on in the review), in effect preventing the very people who the film is speaking to from seeing the work, but what’s more surprising to me is how the story took off. It’s become a real cause, but now that the Brothers Weinstein released the movie unrated, we can judge it on its merits. In that regard, ‘Bully’ is a good but not great documentary isn’t quite as powerful as I was expecting/hoping it was. It’s filmed with a great deal of care by director Lee Hirsch, but I didn’t find it to be the hard hitting expose of bullying that many others have praised it as. There’s a bit of a message, but mostly it’s content to just document the horrors of bullying and to state that it needs to end. My only issue with the work is that it doesn’t really get below the surface and never really suggests a true way to fix things, besides just saying that things need to be fixed. It’s possible that I was just hoping for more of an answer to this question, but I was left (to a small degree) wondering what all the fuss over this film was about. It’s certainly a quality cinematic experience, but it’s not a phenomenal documentary in my eyes.

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    April 1, 2012

    It’s clear now that ‘The Hunger Games’ is an absolute smash, but it’s the fact that it’s breaking records that I find so interesting. This weekend it became only the 5th film ever to break the $200 million mark in its first 8 days of release. I was tipped off to this by Cinema Blend in their post, and you can see what they wrote after the jump, but I’m just fascinated by how well this movie is doing. Check out the news below…

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    April 1, 2012

    • It was another momentous week here at The Awards Circuit. Kicking things off, we began with Joey Magidson’s positive review of Kung-Fu Action Cinema’s newest treasure, ‘The Raid: Redemption.’ Despite the film containing 25% story and 75% action, it certainly proved more rewarding a view for Joey than its bizarre title. The recent high quality of action cinema continues to follow the likes of Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and Haywire. Good things should be coming our way with The Bourne Legacy. Julia Robert’s ‘Mirror Mirror‘ was the last film reviewed this week by our very own Michael Ward, whose tepid reception only seems to “mirror mirror” the state of Julia Robert’s current film career. Read more on Circuit Round-Up (Week Ending 4/1)…

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