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“In the Heart of the Sea” Doesn’t Know Dick
In the Heart of the Sea doesn’t get to the heart of much. In fact, Ron Howard’s seafaring adventure is as confused a picture as I’ve seen in quite some time. Adapted from Nathaniel Philbrick’s 2000 best-seller about the sinking of the whaleship Essex, the film...
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“Z for Zachariah” And The Future of Humanity
Robert C. O’Brien’s 1974 novel Z for Zachariah tells a story of Paradise unregainable. In O’Brien’s novel, unlike Craig Zobel’s recent film adaptation, there is no Caleb character at all. Instead, Loomis is the man who killed his coworker. He has few good inte...
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So Your Festival Darling Was Bought By Harvey Weinstein
Congrats, lucky filmmaker! Your film was purchased for a record high at a prestigious film festival, and the receipt bears the signature of none other than Harvey Weinstein. Last year at the Berlin Film Festival, Weinstein purchased the U.S. rights to The Imit...
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These Are the Best!: The Best of 2014 Ballots
As always, in order to compile our Best of 2014 list, we have a vote, which gets distilled into the top 50 that’s over at the main site. Here at the Balcony, though, is where you’ll find the individual ballots from the Movie Mezzanine staff, featuring a colorf...
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2014 Movies: The Miscellaneous Data
Anyone can tell you which movie made the most money this year (Guardians of the Galaxy), or which wide release had the highest Rotten Tomatoes score (Boyhood), or whether Sinbad was in anything (no). But who cares about that? We've compiled the details that tr...
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The Best Film Writing of 2014
As the year 2014 comes to a close, it offers time to reflect on the past twelve months in popular culture. Whether it was big moments in our nation such as Ferguson, the Ebola outbreak, or a cyber attack, we had plenty of trouble this year. We also lost some f...
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LVFCS Goes for “Birdman” Down the Line
Boyhood has swept a majority of critics awards this last week, but today the Las Vegas Film Critics Society put their chips behind Fox Searchlight's Birdman, awarding the film seven awards for best picture, best director, best actor, best screenplay, cinematog...
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Edgar Wright Shares His Favorite Flicks of 2014
The New York Film Critic's Circle released their picks for the best films of 2014 this morning, but I'm going to focus on the selections from the director of Shaun of the Dead and The World's End instead. Edgar Wright sat down with Esquire's Emily Zemler to di...
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District Mined: The Gerrymandering of Contemporary Cinema
While concerned citizens and political journalists agonized over the fate of the Senate in the weeks leading up to the mid-term elections, there was a good reason no one was talking about the fate of the House: Due to the gerrymandering of Congressional distri...
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