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“Z for Zachariah” Finds Virtue In Scaling Back
On paper, Z For Zachariah resembles a much larger operation than it turned out to be. Right off the bat, it’s an adaptation of post-apocalyptic lit, an apparently boundless well into which Hollywood has plunged its bucket quite frequently over the past few yea...
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Top 5 TIFF People’s Choice Award Winners
The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 4 to September 14 this year, featuring movies like Foxcatcher, Maps to the Stars, Clouds of Sils Maria and Rosewater (to name just a few). Countless big, award-winning hits have come out of the Toront...
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Infographic: Diversity Gap in the Academy
While I'm not one to outright vilify the Academy Awards as outrageously racist, there's been a trend in the Academy's 85 years of existence of excluding minorities. After winning Best Actress for her role in Blue Jasmine, Cate Blanchett's wisely observed that ...
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“12 Years A Slave” Big Winner at the 86th Academy Awards
Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity may have won 7 Oscars, but Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave was the big winner Sunday night, taking home awards for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 86th Academy Awards.
Some cynical pundits ...
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Oscar Nominations Are Mostly Unsurprising, Reliably Disheartening
Early this morning, the Oscar nominations were announced by Thor and there were some nice things, some less nice things and some unforgivable things (Lana Del Rey snubbed!). Nine films are up for Best Picture: American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers C...
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The Golden Globes: Perception vs. Reality in Awards Season
For those with a healthy obsession over awards season, The Golden Globes are of great interest-- not because of any great respect held for the trophy itself, but rather for its potential function as a catalyst for increased/decreased buzz heading down the stre...
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The 50 Best Movies of 2013
We thought that 2012 was a fantastic year for film, but 2013 turned out to be even better. Not even 50 places seems like quite enough to recognize every great movie that hit theaters over the past 12 months, but we've done our best to narrow it down. Nearly 30...
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Letterboxd’s Best of 2013
etterboxd is a site that is quickly gaining popularity in the short time it has existed allowing users to log, rate, review and tag movies as they are watched, even following friends to check in onwhat they are watching. Just in 2013 alone, the site has regist...
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Year in Review: Critics and Critic Groups Pick Their Best Films of 2013
December is that joyous (or hellish) time of the year in the world of cinema when publications of all kinds demand that their critics publish their "best films of the year" lists. Since Movie Mezzanine will not be running such a list till early January, we're ...
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The 20 Best Scenes of 2013
Last year wasn't just a strong year of film; it was also a year of such an eclectic variety of good films of all sorts. While there wasn't a whole lot to chew on in the mainstream American film landscape, the independent and foreign scenes were thriving with g...
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