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“The Keeping Room” Is Exceedingly Difficult To Watch
A title card tells us it’s 1865, followed by a quote from William Tecumseh Sherman – so we all know what’s coming. Director Daniel Barber’s grim, handsomely mounted The Keeping Room wallows in that mournful inevitability, substituting dread for suspense. It’s ...
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“The Better Angels”
It may have been a disservice to A.J. Edwards to be marketed as Terrence Malick’s “creative protégé” in the promotional material for his first feature, The Better Angels. A better tack may have been to let Edwards' retelling of the childhood of Abraham Lincoln...
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“I Origins” A Half-Baked And Purely Guilty Pleasure
The multi-talented actress/writer Brit Marling has become an integral part of an independent film brand through her recent artistic collaborations with filmmakers Mike Cahill and Zal Batmanglij. With high-concept, budget-conscious titles such as Cahill’s Anoth...
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Sundance Review: ‘I Origins’ Laughably Explores Science and Faith
Mike Cahill's sophomore narrative feature is too silly to be profound.
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Sundance Day Six: David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche, The East, and the Polarizing Upstream Color
Prince Avalanche (dir. David Gordon Green)
(Grade: C) -- David Gordon Green’s return to independent cinema, after a string of achingly awful films (Pineapple Express, Your Highness,and The Sitter), may very well be the definition of mediocrity.
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