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The Timelessness of “Punch-Drunk Love”
Jake Cole takes a longer look at Paul Thomas Anderson's "Punch-Drunk Love" as it's released on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.
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To Stream Or Not To Stream
Monica Castillo on how record distribution deals at Sundance may change how we watch movies.
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Is “Pixels” The Worst Rom-Com of All Time?
This just in: Pixels, the latest half-hearted cinematic time-killer starring the sad sack once known as Adam Sandler, is bad. It is bad, bad, bad. The script adheres to no sense of internal logic; the film expects audiences to accept that Paul Blart, Mall Cop ...
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The Lure of the Pan
Within minutes of The Cobbler’s debut at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, word started spreading that the movie could be an all-timer: a film so foul that it belongs in its own special category of crappy. By the time Thomas McCarthy’s latest ...
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Opening Acts 3/16/2015
Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
For your reading enjoyment …
Hey Bro, Let It Go: How The Frat Pack Fell Apart, by Benjamin Lee. Lee ...
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“Top Five”
It’s often said that comedy is the hardest thing for a performer, and it must be hard to be a comedian in the celebrity bubble of Hollywood. Sure, there’s the potential for big franchise paychecks and the adoration of countless fans, but with them comes the er...
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The Paul Thomas Anderson Retrospective
Though he's only made seven films, Paul Thomas Anderson has nonetheless made an indelible mark upon American cinema, evoking the likes of Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick, but able to form a voice all his own. This December, his latest film, Inherent Vice, hi...
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Weekend Box Office: Gone September Box Office Blues
The box office came out of the September doldrums in full force this weekend, with the top two movies powering the weekend to a 23 percent higher weekend than the same period last year, and the highest overall weekend ever for October. The number one movie was...
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“Men, Women & Children”
We begin in outer space.
After kicking off with a pompous, Malick-esque montage of Voyager 1 departing the solar system for parts unknown, director Jason Reitman’s sixth feature plummets back to Earth just in time to catch Adam Sandler rubbing it out to Por...
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First “Men, Women & Children” Trailer: Technology is Depressing
We have the first trailer for Jason Reitman's new film Men, Women & Children online today. I'm a fan of Reitman, loving both Thank You For Smoking and Up in the Air immensely, but I'm beginning to wonder if he's still got it. I wasn't in love with Young Ad...
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