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“Very Good Girls” Is A Delicate, Heartfelt Coming-Of-Age Tale
If you've never been a 19-year old girl, to paraphrase The Virgin Suicides, you might not get the gravity of Lilly's (Dakota Fanning) and Gerri's (Elizabeth Olsen) dilemmas in Very Good Girls. But the path these girls are following during their last summer bef...
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“Godzilla” Destroys Effing Everything
2014 is the year Toho's favorite son, Godzilla, turns 60. It's also the year that the vaunted American studio system tries its hand again at appropriating the iconic granddaddy of all kaiju for entertainment purposes, Roland Emmerich be damned. Why Godzilla? W...
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New ‘Godzilla’ Trailer Will Send Us Back to the Stone Age
"You are not fooling anybody when you say that what happened was a natural disaster. It was not an earthquake, it was not a typhoon, because what's really happening is your hiding something out there!"
I'm sold. Bryan Cranston's voice-over and the beast's s...
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‘In Secret’ Fails To Scandalize
Very early on in its running time, In Secret taunt us with licentious promise; our heroine, Therese (Elizabeth Olsen), sneaks off to a riverbank, conceals herself in underbrush, and quietly masturbates as she watches a brawny laborer sweep away pesky weeds wit...
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Defending Spike Lee’s ‘Oldboy’
Spike Lee's remake of Park Chan-wook's Oldboy was met with a largely negative response last week and many fans claimed that it was just Hollywood at work again tearing down a revered foreign film just for the money. Money is a motivating factor in a lot of Hol...
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Spike Lee’s ‘Oldboy’ Remake Disappoints
In 2003, Oldboy struck at precisely the right time for movie lovers. It was able to introduce a whole slew of canny viewers to the then-blossoming world of Korean cinema. It put director Park Chan-wook and his Vengeance Trilogy on the map. For the film, famed ...
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