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“Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.” An Intimate, Bittersweet Portrait Of A Star’s Conflicted Father
Airing this month on HBO, Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. is an intimate documentary portrait of the father of one of the most famous actors of our time. Robert De Niro, Sr. was a well-regarded abstract expressionist painter in the 1940s and 50s wh...
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“How to Train Your Dragon 2” Gives A Franchise Wings
You may find yourself in a state of stunned, blinking confusion as How to Train Your Dragon 2 begins its end-credits scrawl. Sequels aren't supposed to be this good; they are, according to conventional wisdom, supposed to be soulless cash-ins, all the better f...
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“The Grand Seduction” Takes Pride In The Lie
Brendan Gleeson is nothing if not multifaceted. He can swing an axe with manly ennui (Braveheart); he can play the grizzled, unhinged war vet-turned-teacher you always wish you'd had in high school (the Harry Potter franchise); and he can explode truck-sized a...
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“Edge of Tomorrow” Is A CGI-Infused, Engaging Sci-Fi Black Comedy
Who would have thought that watching a woman painfully dying over 100 times in 2 hours could be entertaining? Or that 4D, the money-sucking, off-the-mark, ridiculously inadequate, and distractive technology there is, might prove it does have a little sense to ...
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“Obvious Child”: A Different Kind Of Pregnancy Comedy
Writer-director Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child is a very funny romantic comedy that centers on the issue of an abortion. Depending on where you stand, this is the kind of subversive entertainment we are finally allowed to have in 2014— or, conversely, thi...
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“Night Moves”: No Succor In The Wilderness
If you've ever watched a Jesse Eisenberg performance, you've most likely formed an image of him in your mind as the loquacious aggro-nerd: the man fills the air with a rapid-fire staccato of verbiage that flips between hostile (The Social Network) and neurotic...
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“The Fault In Our Stars” Earns The Tears You’ll Inevitably Shed
As tempting as it is to roll eyes at the subject matter of teenage love fettered by terminal illness, Josh Boone’s The Fault In Our Stars -a refreshingly sober melodrama, respectful of such a weighty topic it dissects- requires one to check that attitude at th...
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“Trust Me” Reinforces All The Familiar Tropes About How Awful Hollywood Is
The takeaway from Trust Me, the new film from multi-hyphenate Clark Gregg, is almost as old as time itself: Hollywood is the worst! Gregg all but marks off each expected cliche from a checklist. Venal agents? Check. Self-serving, heartless producers? Check. Ac...
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“The Sacrament” Exploits Tragedy For Thrills And Meaning
Ti West is nothing if not obsessed by the past. In point of fact, the guy has built most of his career on dipping into the well of 60s-80s horror, drawing on notable niches of both eras to provide blueprints for movies ranging from House of the Devil to The In...
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“We Are The Best!” A Lived-In, Punk-Rock Delight
Three girls start a band in We are the Best!, but that’s not really what the movie is about. Set in Stockholm in 1982, most of the action does indeed focus on punk-music-obsessed pre-teens engaging in indiscriminate cymbal-slamming and bass-strumming - yet the...
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