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On The Vexing Moral Murkiness of “Sicario”
Denis Villeneuve doesn’t make movies about human beings. After watching his last three works, Prisoners, Enemy, and Sicario, it’s clear that the inhabitants of his worlds are merely representations. This doesn’t seem intentional as much as it is incidental. Hi...
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“Sicario” Needs More Substance And More Emily Blunt
If Doug Liman’s thoroughly entertaining sci-fi flick Edge of Tomorrow demonstrated and reinforced anything besides the inexhaustible movie stardom of Tom Cruise, it was that Emily Blunt was an action heroine of her own accord, more than capable of holding her ...
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2014 Movies: The Miscellaneous Data
Anyone can tell you which movie made the most money this year (Guardians of the Galaxy), or which wide release had the highest Rotten Tomatoes score (Boyhood), or whether Sinbad was in anything (no). But who cares about that? We've compiled the details that tr...
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Halftime Report: The Best Movies of 2014 So Far
The year has now half passed us by, which marks a good opportunity to take stock of what it's offered cinematically so far. Releasing a "best of" list for half a year may seem like clickbaiting, and perhaps it is, but it's no more so than any other kind of lis...
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“Enemy”: Organized Chaos
There's a very good chance that Denis Villeneuve is just fucking with all of us.
His newest film Enemy opens with the cryptic quote "Chaos is order yet undeciphered," from the José Saramago novel which its based on, The Double, and then gives us an erotic y...
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