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All posts by Eugene Novikov
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 Wolverine’: More Superheroes Like This, Please
The Wolverine is the first Marvel movie since Iron Man to feel like a movie and not a feature-length, candy-colored advertisement for the Marvel “universe” and whatever money-raking project they have in the pipeline. It treats its protagonist as a person, not ...
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‘The Conjuring’: A Hollow Thing of Beauty
Audiovisually, The Conjuring is the Four Seasons Hotel of horror films. That is a compliment. Every moment of this 112-minute ghost story invites you to luxuriate in it. Every shot is rich, layered and inviting; each zoom and pan seems to have been calibrated ...
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‘World War Z’
World War Z is a series of action vignettes held together by worn duct tape and the crummiest post-converted 3D since Clash of the Titans. It purports to be based on the remarkable book of the same name by Max Brooks, but it contorts the notions of “adaptatio...
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‘The Purge’
The Purge is an enthusiastically dopey allegory about American class warfare – about the way we’ve woven cruelty into our national moral fabric. To its tremendous credit, the film doesn’t let go of this idea from the first frame to the last. It’s easy to prete...
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