9 years ago
Reviews (10 posts found)
“Cheatin'”
The future of hand-drawn animated features is alive and well, but only in the world of independent cinema. Now that Studio Ghibli has announced plans to take a lengthy break from producing features, if not outright stopping entirely, it’s up to films like Bill...
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“Furious Seven”
Observers have joked that the Fast & Furious movies couldn’t bring vehicular action to any higher level of impossibility. Furious Seven shut them up with its trailer, which featured skydiving cars. We should not tempt fate with any further speculation on w...
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“The Riot Club”
Lone Scherfig’s new film name-drops its own title so many times that it very nearly verges on self-parody. If a tenacious viewer felt so inclined, they could make a super-cut of every time anybody on screen coyly huffs and puffs about the eponymous ultra-exclu...
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“Serena”
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence may be responsible for most of the money earned at the North American box office in 2014, but I bet you didn’t know they’re starring in a new movie this weekend. Well, sorta new. Shot shortly after Silver Linings Playbook ...
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“While We’re Young”
In the early moments of While We’re Young, writer-director Noah Baumbach’s charming, glossy, and freshly funny exercise on aging and generational anxiety, a childless forty-something couple, Josh and Cornelia (lovably played by Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts), ar...
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“The Salt of the Earth”
A curious reunion of cinema with its ancestral art of photography, Wim Wenders’ co-directorial project The Salt of the Earth celebrates the life behind a cameraman's images. The film’s subject is world-renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado, an artful adventu...
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“The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq”
A most curious film, The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq riffs on a mysterious week back in 2011 when the controversial French writer missed several appearances during a book tour, causing speculation that the widely despised raconteur had been kidnapped by I...
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“Man From Reno”
Like an early Coen brothers film from an alternate universe, or an adaptation of a forgotten straight-to-paperback airport crime novel, Man from Reno wrings thrills out of small moments and seemingly low stakes. The story follows two disparate threads that con...
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“White God”
Allegory has long been a handy tool for fiction writers making harshly critical or otherwise potentially inflammatory statements on delicate situations. Cloaking rhetoric in what is essentially an elaborate symbol can make complex commentary immediate and pala...
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“She’s Lost Control”
She’s Lost Control is a classic tale. Cis-gendered, able-bodied, conventionally attractive straight white boy meets cis-gendered, able-bodied, conventionally attractive straight white girl. He’s afraid of intimacy, she’s warm and open and determined to fix him...
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