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“Interstellar”
Christopher Nolan has never been one for tearjerkers. As a filmmaker, he brings a technician’s focus to his work, laying out the parts he wants to use and methodically assembling his machine. His stories almost always involve loss or sorrow, but such emotions ...
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“John Wick”
For all its B-movie pulp bravado, John Wick – a rather absurdly entertaining comeback vehicle for the preternaturally youthful Keanu Reeves – is best looked at not as an action movie, but as a dance picture.
Directed by Reeves’ regular stunt double Chad Sta...
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“Citizenfour”
One of 2014’s more compelling documentaries, Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour channels the measured cool of its subject—former National Security Agency analyst-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden—and eschews the sensationalism of so many docs for a chilling, informa...
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The Eyes Behind the Mask: “Pulp Fiction” and Postmodernity 20 Years Later
“I’m American, honey. Our names don’t mean shit.”---Butch Coolidge, Pulp Fiction
In his essay “Postmodernism and Consumer Society,” Marxist critic Frederic Jameson argues that the concept of postmodernism is primarily a product of the social and economic or...
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“Bird People” Battles Loneliness, Finds Hope
One of the weird paradoxes of film is that those experiences that are the most common and often meaningful in our daily lives are almost impossible to evoke visually in a real and engaging way. The most difficult acts to represent on film in a realistic way ar...
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“The Skeleton Twins” An Uncannily Convincing Portrait of Dysfunctional Siblings
I recall reading an interview with Bill Murray a couple years back in which he praised the then-current cast of Saturday Night Live. (Of course I can’t find it right now for reference purposes, because searching for anything on the Internet related to Bill Mur...
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Special Report from Telluride Film Festival
Much ink was spilled in the run-up to this year's fall festival season about a supposed face-off between Telluride and Toronto, with the latter taking a stand against Telluride's custom of "stealth" premieres by banning Telluride entrants from showing during ...
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The Claire Denis Retrospective
Claire Denis is a woman of few words, so I shall use that as an excuse to introduce this retrospective briefly. Though I have seen all of Denis' features now, it feels to me that we barely know each other, that the more we learn, the more we know we do not kno...
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A Talented Cast Can’t Save “Sex Tape”
The most frustrating movies are not those that are outright bad, but those that come so close to being good, only to fail. They find themselves bumping against good ideas almost without trying, only to forget them or wander away in search of something nonsensi...
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Hell Is For Real In “Deliver Us From Evil”
Horror movies seem to always go through an awkward warmup phase in the first 10 to 15 minutes. The audience has to be willing to move past whatever initial preposterousness presents itself— monsters, ghosts, evil spirits, creepy whisper kids, and hackneyed car...
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