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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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Witness Farrell and Chastain’s Unbridled Passion in ‘Miss Julie’
With Liv Ullman behind the director's chair and a cast of Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell, it was only a matter of which film festival Miss Julie would appear. When the Toronto International Film Festival revealed the first wave of films for 2014, it was an...
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“Winter’s Tale”: Love’s Lost In The Cold
Carrying that seasonal feeling of freezing rain and dreary sunless days is unfortunately a movie meant to warm the hearts of its audience. Winter's Tale is a fantasy story out of time and a movie terribly constructed. I can only imagine it will make a great c...
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‘Saving Mr. Banks’ Hates Its Lead Character
At one point in Saving Mr. Banks, author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) looks at what writers from Walt Disney Studios have done to one of her characters and asks why they've made him so terrible. Watching this film, I wondered the same thing about its treatment...
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‘Winter’s Tale’ Trailer Proclaims Love Can Save
Ah, so that's where Jessica Brown Findlay went after Downton Abbey. Oscar-winner Akiva Goldsman (writer for A Beautiful Mind and I Am Legend) is set to make his directorial debut with Mark Helprin's novel Winter's Tale. A daunting task for a first time directo...
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The Terrence Malick Retrospective: The New World
The Movie Mezzanine Filmmaker Retrospective series takes on an entire body of work–be it director’s, screenwriter’s, or otherwise–and analyzes each portion of the filmography. By the final post of a retrospective, there will be a better understanding of the fi...
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Dead Man Down: Critic Man Yawn
Dead Man Down, the new directorial effort from Niels Arden Oplev, desperately tries to deliver the pleasures of both a noirish thriller and an action bonanza. Unfortunately, it fails at both. Some slick cinematography and a game cast are wasted, as you feel th...
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Shelf Life: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Shelf Life is a weekly feature that selects a film currently on DVD/Blu-Ray for review.
It wouldn’t be a Terry Gilliam film if something didn’t go catastrophically wrong, but 2009's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus stands out even among the tales of merc...
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