9 years ago
Reviews (10 posts found)
‘Ok, Enough, Goodbye’ Provides Sobering Glimpse at Life in Lebanon
Cinema is at its transportive best when granting glimpses into certain pockets of the world with which most viewers are unfamiliar and might never experience otherwise. The effect can be eye-opening, revelatory and welcome to those with a traveling sensibility...
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Alexander Payne Takes A More Observational Approach in ‘Nebraska’
Alexander Payne’s last three movies have been about despondent men trying – and failing, mostly – to connect emotionally with the people around them. His latest, Nebraska, is about two such men learning that they should try to connect to each other. It’s the f...
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‘About Time’ Should Have Been About Other Things
For a man who specializes in romantic comedies, writer/director Richard Curtis doesn’t seem very interested in romance or comedy. His latest, About Time, is a lighthearted tearjerker about a man who learns he’s inherited a low-tech means of time-travel, and us...
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‘The Motel Life’ Is A Promising Directorial Debut
The debut film from Alan and Gabe Polsky reveals a talented new directing duo.
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Teen Romance Blooms In Post-Apocalyptic England In ‘How I Live Now’
Nineteen-year-old Saoirse Ronan has thoughtfully created her onscreen image, firmly building her position within the film industry. At 13, she earned an Oscar nomination for Joe Wright's Atonement, one of her first film roles ever. Since then, the young actres...
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‘Thor: The Dark World’: A Shiny, Very Expensive and Uncreative Turd of a Motion Picture
Let's be real for a minute: Marvel Studios has to date produced one fairly impressive spectacle (The Avengers) and five mediocre superhero adaptations, all of which find themselves interlinked within the same universe. Increasingly, each Marvel film offers ple...
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‘A Case of You’ Is Too Slight To Overcome Its Tropes
Justin Long tries to woo Evan Rachel Wood in this new romantic comedy.
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‘Ender’s Game’ Proves Faithfulness To The Source Isn’t Always A Good Thing
Ender's Game is neither particularly good nor bad. It just exists.
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‘Last Vegas’ Is As Old and Tired As Its Characters
Mercifully, the actors are not degrading themselves here -- they only stoop as low as mere slumming.
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‘Free Birds’ Should Have Stayed Cooped Up
I thought that no movie this year could possibly top Turbo for lazy story ideas, but Free Birds proved me utterly wrong.
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