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Woody Allen’s “Irrational Man” Is Familiar, But Engaging
Woody Allen’s latest vehicle conveys the filmmaker’s self-deprecating ways and recurrent fascinations with death and murder. Joaquin Phoenix is suitably cast as the nihilistic and life-hating philosophy professor Abe Lucas. Following Allen’s dreary and forgett...
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The Funny-As-Hell “Trainwreck” Is Anything But
“We all know one.” So goes the tagline for Trainwreck, comic phenom Amy Schumer’s debut starring vehicle with Judd Apatow. With the third season of Inside Amy Schumer in full swing and the comedian’s name seemingly plastered across the headline daily (sometime...
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Honey, I Shrunk the Rudd: On The Wry and Light “Ant-Man”
After 7 years and two phases of the Marvel cinematic universe, one thing is clear: the world can only be under threat of annihilation so many times before impending doom becomes dull. The first entry in this summer’s movie season, Avengers: Age of Ultron, suff...
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“The Look of Silence” Is One of the Best Documentaries in Decades
Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing found an idiosyncratic, formally daring means of exhuming the ghosts of the Indonesian anti-Communist purges of the 1950s and ‘60s, cajoling surviving war criminals into confessing their atrocities by getting the proud m...
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Locked Up With The Too-Tidy “The Stanford Prison Experiment”
In the first week of any undergrad Introduction to Psychology course, professors will trot out one of two case studies. They can go with Stanley Milgram’s test on obedience and punishment (dramatized by the late Robin Williams in what must be one of the all-ti...
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In Session: Talent Worth Watching In “Court”
Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court is the writer-director’s first feature, but it’s so accomplished that he might fool you into thinking that he’s been doing this for years. Partly, that’s a credit to his technique and his craft. Tamhane favors a style that emphasizes ...
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On The Run: A Review of The Gripping “Catch Me Daddy”
As the latest addition to the list of recent British social realism films, Daniel Wolfe’s debut feature Catch Me Daddy is a gripping account of a troubled night for two lovers on the run. Mostly set in the shadowy, mystifying moors of Yorkshire, the film effec...
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“Self/Less”
Self/Less is a long, slow slog with a disappointing capper in its “Directed by” credit. It’s hard to believe that Tarsem Singh, the same visual stylist behind The Cell, The Fall, and even the utterly silly Mirror Mirror, was behind the camera for this detached...
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“10,000 km”
At the beginning of 10,000 km, Alex (Natalia Tena) and Sergi (David Verdaguer) have sex, express their mutual hope that said coitus will result in a baby, and then go about their morning routine in their Barcelona apartment. All of this occurs over the course ...
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“The Suicide Theory”
What does one do when life has become so miserable that the only option is to say goodbye to the world? What if even that ability, to take one’s own life, is taken away? That’s the answer director Dru Brown is trying to find in his second feature film, The Sui...
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