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Sundance 2017 Dispatch: Three Distinct Love Stories
Marshall Shaffer submits this dispatch from the 2017 Sundance Film Festival on three different love stories, crossing time and the cosmic plane.
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Actor V Director
Tom Bond writes about Ben Affleck's growth as a director as his latest effort, "Live By Night" opens nationwide.
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A Tranquil, Cinematic Home
Alex Huls explores the sense of place evident in the new Kenneth Lonergan film "Manchester By The Sea."
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TIFF 2016 Dispatch: “Personal Shopper,” “Manchester by the Sea,” and “Paterson”
Tina Hassannia submits this dispatch of the first few films she's seen at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 234: “The Finest Hours”
Josh invites Todd VanDerWerff of Vox onto the podcast to discuss "The Finest Hours."
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“Interstellar” Trailer Proves, Well, Stellar
Alright, alright, alright it's Friday and Warner Bros. has put out the second trailer for Interstellar for public consumption. The publicity campaign surrounding the film has been quiet over the last year with only the release of a teaser trailer, poster and a...
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‘Out of the Furnace’: A Sore Disappointment
Out of the Furnace saddens me. It's a movie that fights so hard to be great, only to wind up stranded in some middling zone of effectiveness. It has a concept and story that I want to work, told by a cast and crew of artists whom I almost uniformly like or lov...
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New ‘Out of the Furnace’ Photos Show Bale and Affleck’s Brotherly Bond
New stills from Scott Cooper's Out of the Furnace have arrived, giving us a look at Christian Bale and Casey Affleck as two brothers with a penchant for attracting trouble. The film centers on Bale as Russell Baze, an ex-con who must stop his younger brother f...
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‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’: A Flawed and Fictional Cinematic Folk Song
On paper, David Lowery's Ain't Them Bodies Saints is the kind of film that I'd be all over. Melding elements of an elegiac, Malick-ian romance with a Western-infused, Coen Brothers-esque crime plot, the 'Texas-set period film stars Rooney Mara and Casey Afflec...
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Why Harvey Weinstein’s Neutering of Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Snowpiercer’ Is An Insult To Us All
When I caught wind that Bong Joon-ho, the South Korean auteur behind complex genre masterworks The Host, Mother and Memories of Murder, had a new film coming out this year, it was enough to immediately become my most anticipated release of 2013. Bong is that k...
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