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Reviews (10 posts found)
“Run All Night”
“I’m coming after you with everything I’ve got,” growls Irish godfather Ed Harris at his old buddy Liam Neeson, the two adversaries facing off over midnight coffee at a New York diner. “As long as you’re coming after Michael,” Neeson later retorts, “I’m coming...
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“Cinderella”
It wasn’t even a year ago when Disney’s infamous Sleeping Beauty villain received a feminist makeover and became a relatable, sympathetic heroine in Robert Stromberg’s Maleficent. The worldwide phenomenon called Frozen only recently redefined true love as a si...
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“Home Sweet Hell”
Once upon a time, Katherine Heigl had movie stardom within her reach. Now, she’s the lead on NBC's State of Affairs following a string of commercial duds in the early 2010s. There’s a whole article to be penned about Heigl’s rise and fall in Hollywood since on...
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“Two Men in Town”
Frustratingly close to being something very special indeed, Rachid Bouchareb’s Two Men in Town boasts a painterly visual sensibility and some of the more nuanced performances this killer cast has delivered in quite some time. The mood of the film is deliberate...
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“3 Hearts”
If you had to assign a figurative shape to the trio-based love affair that is at the, ahem, heart of Benoit Jacquot's 3 Hearts, you might say it resembles something of a triangle. Why has no one else ever conceived of a love triangle before? It's so obvious. A...
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“Seymour: An Introduction”
Mild-mannered octogenarian Seymour Bernstein is considered a New York legend among the few who know him. Decades earlier, the once-promising musician gave up a calling as a concert pianist due to crippling performance anxiety and became a renowned piano teache...
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“The Wrecking Crew”
Director Denny Tedesco calls The Wrecking Crew “the most expensive home movie ever made,” which pretty well sums up the movie’s strengths and limitations. Shot here and there over the course of decades, it’s a grab-bag of interviews and archival footage intend...
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“The Mafia Only Kills in Summer”
“Nun sacciu, non vidi, nun ceru, e si ceru, durmivu”, the old Sicilian adage tells us; “I know nothing, I didn’t see anything, I wasn’t there, and if I was there, I was sleeping.” Had the sage responsible for concocting this well-worn proverb been fonder of br...
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“Road Hard”
Waving the flag of the persecuted non-PC American idiot, Adam Carolla is a gasbag, a babbler, and/or a loudmouth with nothing to say. Sans the reflective spotlight he puts on himself as actor/writer/co-director (sharing the two latter duties with Kevin Hench),...
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“Unfinished Business”
There are details about Ken Scott’s Unfinished Business worth respecting, or at least admiring. Scott has made a movie rooted in an indistinct business environment in which a woman holds a position of top authority; she’s allowed to be bluntly, even crudely al...
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