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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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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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Sex(ist): On Cinematic Nudity
No surprise that David Fincher’s adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s controversial best-selling novel Gone Girl became a big hit upon its release. One aspect of the film that generated unexpected chatter, however, was Ben Affleck’s penis. Days (weeks?) after critics...
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2014 Gotham Awards Announced
The Gotham Awards are the earliest ceremony in awards season, and rather than focus on the some of the big-hitters later on in the year, they hold up some of the indie darlings already released in the year. Additionally, the Gotham nominators also recognize th...
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Overview: David Fincher
In our Overview series, Movie Mezzanine staffers go through the work of a director, one film at a time.
Even now, 10 features into his career, David Fincher’s status in the cinematic firmament is still very much up in the air, with each new film of his offer...
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New York Film Festival Review: “Gone Girl” a Pitch Black Satire of Procedural Pulp
If the eyes are the windows to the soul then Rosamund Pike is blessed with peepholes to the abyss, and David Fincher was wise to cast her in his latest prestige pulp. Speaking during a press conference at the 52nd New York Film Festival, where Gone Girl was th...
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TIFF Review: “Clouds of Sils Maria” is Oddly Worth Remembering, But Not Watching
If there is any merit to Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria it’s that it serves the memory in a finer way than it does the eye. Asked to take on a revival of the play that made her famous as a youth, Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) must take on the role opp...
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