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Why “Frozen” Tried to Deny Its Nostalgic Influences
Editor's note: Today, we're proud to present readers with an exclusive passage from Josh Spiegel's book Yesterday is Forever: Nostalgia and Pixar Animation Studios. Be sure to pick up the book up now that it's available for purchase from The Critical Press.
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The “Secret In Their Eyes” Is That This Movie Is Ludicrous
Secret In Their Eyes is an American remake of the Oscar-winning Argentinian thriller The Secret in Their Eyes. Writer-director Billy Ray’s version drops the word “the” from its title but retains much of its predecessor’s plot. The film’s politics also get an A...
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“Mockingjay — Part 2” Is Little More Than A Bland Feel-Good Tale
Yet again, splitting one book into multiple films proves to be a horrendous idea—artistically, that is: The two parts of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay will unquestionably make far more money than a single movie would have. It’s honestly surprising that a multi-...
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The Director of “Mustang” On Its Surprising Inspiration
Set in a remote Northern Turkish village on the cusp of fairy tale, Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang explores the suffocating world of five teenage sisters put under house arrest after an indiscretion threatens their chastity in the eyes of the local patriarchy. ...
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This Week on MUBI: “The Headless Woman”
Editor's note: We are thrilled to announce that MUBI, the curated online cinema that brings its members a hand-picked selection of the best independent, international, and classic films, is sponsoring Movie Mezzanine. You can use the discount on this promo pa...
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“Entertainment” Is One of the Year’s Best Films
The idea of the sad clown is as old as comedy itself, and yet it’d be too easy to classify Rick Alverson’s new film—which revolves around the existential journey of a standup performer—as just another in the long line of stories about depressed funnymen and th...
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“The 33” Fails At Being Authentic
Patricia Riggen’s The 33 ends appropriately with a seaside reunion between its cast’s real-life counterparts: The cadre of Chilean miners who lived buried beneath a mountain for 69 days in the 2010 Copiapó mining calamity. One by one, Riggen introduces her aud...
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On Richard Pryor and His “Wise Old Man, Mudbone”
Editor's note: Today, we're proud to present readers with an exclusive passage from Jason Bailey's book Richard Pryor: American Id. Be sure to pick up the book up now that it's available for purchase from The Critical Press.
In the short stories collected in ...
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This Week on MUBI: “Let The Right One In”
Editor's note: We are thrilled to announce that MUBI, the curated online cinema that brings its members a hand-picked selection of the best independent, international, and classic films, is now sponsoring Movie Mezzanine. You can use the discount on this promo...
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“James White” Is A Revelation
James White opens on an extreme close-up of the titular character (Christopher Abbott), sweaty-faced and dazed-eyed, earphones in, vaguely moving about to music, back-lit by neon smears. He emerges from a bar into broad daylight, gets into a cab, takes a coupl...
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