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Now Playing: “Silence”
Vikram Murthi writes about the latest epic from Martin Scorsese in this week's critic-at-large column, "Silence."
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An Overwhelming “Silence”
Josh Spiegel writes this essay about the personal experience of watching Martin Scorsese's "Silence" in the midst of religious upheaveal in the world.
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Ramin Bahrani on “99 Homes” And Challenging Himself
American independent filmmaker Ramin Bahrani’s past works (Man Push Cart, Chop Shop, Goodbye Solo, etc.) show a keen eye for observing the social problems associated with capitalism. Iranian in origin and with an interest in Iranian cinema, Bahrani’s work show...
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How the Dardennes Inspired John Crowley’s “Brooklyn”
This year’s awards season has already begun ascribing narratives to various directors: Ridley Scott the overdue master, Alejandro G. Iñárritu the brash visionary, Todd Haynes the committed chronicler of marginalized women. And yet, amidst all the noise, a movi...
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“99 Homes” Is Ungraceful and Bland
Ripped from the headlines of several years ago and plastered onto theater screens is 99 Homes, which transmutes the subprime-mortgage crisis into a broad morality play. Writer/director Ramin Bahrani has recently made it his “thing” to bring forth relevant mess...
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TIFF Dispatch #3: “99 Homes”, “The Duke of Burgundy”, and “Phoenix”
99 Homes - The American home foreclosure crisis, the subject of Ramin Bahrani’s latest film, is the stuff of Michael Moore-style documentaries. The film observes various middle-class families fighting tooth and nail to hold onto their family homes, only to be ...
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Weekend Box Office: Obligatory “‘Godzilla’ Roars” Headline
After last summer's decidedly mixed domestic performance for Guillermo del Toro's kaiju big battle movie Pacific Rim, it was understandable that box office prognosticators were a little skeptical that Gareth Edwards' American Godzilla reboot would connect. But...
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Weekend Box Office: “Neighbors” Beats Spidey
Just about every weekend during the summer season brings a new number one to the box office charts, which is expected given that studios are putting out big movies every weekend, and this week was no different. As a breather in=n between the big-budget crazine...
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Weekend Box Office: Spidey Starts Summer
The first weekend of May means the kickoff of the summer movie season, and usually a superhero movie kicks things off (last year brought Iron Man 3 and the year before was The Avengers). This year brought us the fifth cinematic outing for Spider-Man and the se...
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“The Amazing Spider-Man 2” Swings And Misses
On the basis of its first two films, Marc Webb’s reboot franchise of Spider-Man manages not only to wallow in superhero cliché but in that of the teen indie. Peter Parker’s self-doubt and petulance have been crucial traits of the character since his inception ...
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