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Reviews (10 posts found)
“Big Hero 6”
Few words feel more apt in describing Marvel's recent domination of mainstream cinema than "inevitable." When, a week and a half ago, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced his company's release slate, through Walt Disney Pictures, for the next 5 years...
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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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“The Better Angels”
It may have been a disservice to A.J. Edwards to be marketed as Terrence Malick’s “creative protégé” in the promotional material for his first feature, The Better Angels. A better tack may have been to let Edwards' retelling of the childhood of Abraham Lincoln...
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“The Theory of Everything”
Simplicity is the key in explaining the most complex occurrences. James Marsh' The Theory of Everything is yet another proof - and a perfect example - of this statement. The Oscar-winning documentarian paints a portrait of one of the most outstanding minds of ...
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“Why Don’t You Play in Hell?”
Sion Sono originally wrote the script to Why Don’t You Play in Hell? back in the late ‘90s, but it may have ended up being a boon that the film was not made until now. The story deals heavily in nostalgia and broken dreams, and being able to tie that in with t...
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“Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show”
If a documentary about how hard successful television writers have it in Hollywood seems the very definition of “champagne problems,” Des Doyle’s Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show benefits from the fact that, well, it’s interviewing those writers. Trus...
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“National Gallery”
Aside from Jean-Luc Godard, it’s hard to think of an octogenarian auteur who remains as vital and intellectually playful as 84-year-old documentary master Frederick Wiseman. Both are having banner years: first Godard with his astonishing, form-bending Goodbye ...
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“Before I Go to Sleep”
There’s a resigned manner in the way Before I Go to Sleep plays out. Running a trim 92 minutes and with a credited cast of just nine actors plus stunt people, it’s a small, rote mystery about a woman with amnesia, Christine Lucas (Nicole Kidman), who sets out ...
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“Goodbye to Language 3D”
Old French master Jean-Luc Godard's new film uses 3D like nothing else before it.
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“The Great Invisible”
"We were in the dark. It was quiet. Nothing. I only had enough time to tell my guys that we're in trouble. 'Something's wrong, guys, and we're in trouble.' And then the first explosion hit us. It picked me up and flung me, it flipped me through the air like a ...
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