9 years ago
Reviews (10 posts found)
‘The Invader’ Is A Beautiful, Provocative Look at Race, Sex, Class
The Invader is a mini-masterpiece, a hypnotic exploration of identity, sex and class politics set against the backdrop of urban anomie.
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‘Getaway’: CRASH! COME ON! CRASH! ANSWER! CRASH! SHUT UP! CRASH!
The following contains the full experience of Courtney Solomon's Getaway. It may contain spoilers, if you consider dialogue from the film spoilers.
CRASH.
BROKEN GLASS.
PUDDLES OF BLOOD.
FLASHBACK. FLASHBACK. FLASHBACK.
WOMEN BEATEN UP GRATUITO...
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‘Passion’ Is Silly, Lurid, Not Particularly Good But Very Entertaining
Tom Clift reviews 'Passion', the new film by Brian De Palma, starring Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace.
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‘Monsters Wanted’ is Too Dull of a Ride
Haunted houses have always fascinated me and I adored visiting them as a kid: there was something great about the mere idea of a ride that literally took you to a different world. I can still remember the first haunted house built in an amusement park near my ...
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Standard Sparks Fly In This ‘Closed Circuit’
Russell Hainline reviews the new thriller from director John Crowley.
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‘Hell Baby’ A Horror Comedy With Neither Horror Nor Comedy
“From the makers of ‘Reno 911!’”, which Hell Baby purports to be, is a bit of a mislead. The long-running Comedy Central show about witless police officials was a collaborative effort between an expansive cast of improvisers with varying styles and voices, aid...
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Childhood is Hell in ‘I Declare War’
Movies about childhood are a crapshoot. They can easily fall into cloying nostalgia or cutesiness. It's easy for adult filmmakers to forget how almost alien the prepubescent ways of thinking are. To a kid, time passes more slowly, and the small things in life ...
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‘The Conspiracy’: A Paranoid, Original Found-Footage Thriller
"It wasn't so much conspiracy theories themselves as it was the people who believe in them that attracted me."
The Conspiracy opens with this line of dialogue, and experiments with bringing the viewer to that very state throughout the experience. Whether yo...
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Wong Kar-Wai’s ‘The Grandmaster’ is Visually Decadent But Narratively Patchy
The following review is an expanded version of one that ran as part of our coverage of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where a longer cut of the film was exhibited than is being released in the United States.
While it’s not necessarily a stan...
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Indie Idol Joe Swanberg Devolves Into Conventionalism with ‘Drinking Buddies’
Drinking Buddies shows the prolific independent filmmaker Joe Swanberg at last developing his rough DIY form to something with a passable sheen of professionalism, and he has been blessed with a name cast for his effort. Olivia Wilde, Ron Livingston, Jake John...
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