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“Adult Beginners”
Coming-of-age tales featuring adult characters who resist growing up are a popular subject for many indie-film darlings. While there is no harm in recycling a current and increasingly common life crisis as a plot device, one at least expects such characters to...
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“Unfriended”
“Horror on a webcam” is neither a fresh aesthetic nor a new idea. Nacho Vigalondo’s unfortunately overcomplicated Open Windows and the 2012 omnibus joint V/H/S both use Skype chats to variable effect; if we want to duck genre, then it’s worth pointing out that...
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Claire Denis
by Darren Hughes and Michael Leary
Darren is a communications professional and freelance writer in Knoxville, TN. He’s a longtime contributor toSenses of Cinemaand MUBI’s Notebook and blogs on occassion at longpauses.com. Michael is co-editor ofFilmwell and h...
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“Clouds of Sils Maria”
“Thinking about a text is different than living it.” Internationally renowned European movie star Maria Enders, portrayed by internationally renowned European movie star Juliette Binoche, speaks these words to her personal assistant Valentine (Kristen Stewart,...
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The Reeves-urrection: The Second Coming of Keanu Reeves
Just last week, it was announced that Keanu Reeves had joined the cast of Ana Lily Amirpour’s (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night) next film titled The Bad Batch. There’s plenty of reasons to be excited about this film, but the fact that Reeves is apart of it on...
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“The Divergent Series: Insurgent”
The Divergent Series: Insurgent is so unmemorable that its long-winded, SEO-boosting title becomes a helpful marker for keeping track of what it is you’re watching. The film begins with more “previously on” summary than a late episode of Lost, but even the con...
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Actors! They Really Can Do It All?: Four Actors that Released Albums
True story: I work at a record store, and one day I was going through our soul/r&b section straightening it up when I came across a great discovery – Terrence Howard has an album. It’s called Shine Through It. As Terrence Howard will be turning 46 today, i...
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“Buzzard”
Thanks to the efforts of Judd Apatow and his contemporaries and cohorts, the manboy currently dominates American pop culture. Slackers, stoners, dweebs, and the like are not just “in” -- they are. The dude who’s refused to accept one more iota of responsibilit...
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Fade to Red: The Desire of Xavier Dolan
Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know—because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it, it turned to dust in my hand.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Words fly fast and furiou...
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