Kelly Jane Torrance
Washington Examiner Movie Critic
Kelly Jane Torrance is movie critic for The Washington Examiner and is an assistant managing editor for The Weekly Standard.
June 19, 2013
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'Star Trek' sequel boldly goes where series has gone before
By Kelly Jane Torrance | 05/14/13 06:00 PM
In 2009, J.J. Abrams boldly went where almost no man had gone before: He successfully rebooted a beloved franchise. His "Star Trek" didn't please every Trekkie, of course. But most of them were pleasantly surprised by the way he honored the spirit of the original television series and movies...
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Movie review: Hosaini's 'My Brother the Devil' chock full of ideas
By Kelly Jane Torrance | 05/10/13 02:10 PM
"My Brother the Devil" is not at all the film I was expecting. And that's both a good thing and a not-so-good thing. It's a pleasant surprise because Egyptian-Welsh writer-director Sally El Hosaini, in her feature film debut, avoids telling an easy but often overwrought sort of story about...
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'Gatsby' glitzy, but fails to dazzle
By Kelly Jane Torrance | 05/09/13 06:45 PM
Perhaps the iconic American novel "The Great Gatsby" isn't read much on the other side of the world -- like, for example, in Australia. That's the most charitable explanation for the overblown-to-the-point-of-ridiculous adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel that down-under director...
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Lights out: House plan would protect nation's electricity from solar flare, nuclear bomb
By Paul Bedard | 06/17/13
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Support falling in polls, Harry Reid announces rush to pass immigration bill
By Byron York | 06/18/13
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Is Obama losing young voters?
By Michael Barone | 06/17/13
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Edward Snowden: Google and Facebook 'misleading' their users
By Charlie Spiering | 06/17/13
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Experts say fraud rampant in federal worker disability program
By Mark Flatten | 06/17/13
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The Lesson of Kermit Gosnell
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