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The Endless Vitality of Steven Spielberg
On the eve of Steven Spielberg's 70th birthday, Josh Spiegel writes this essay on three of his modern classics released within 18 months of each other.
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“Spy”
Note. This review originally ran as part of our coverage of South by Southwest 2015.
Despite having almost literally the most generic title it could possibly have, Spy is a dizzyingly funny espionage comedy, with a non-farcical, non-spoof plot that works on a...
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“Black Sea”
There’s a forgotten Nazi U-boat loaded with gold lying at the bottom of the Black Sea. There’s a crew of British and Russian character actors (and Scoot McNairy) out to get it. There’s a creaky old submarine. Element B loads into Element C to go after Element ...
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“Dom Hemingway” Is All Swagger
Dom Hemingway (Jude Law) is an angry man. He's just been released from prison after serving a 12-year stretch as a fall guy for his gangster boss Mr. Fontaine (Demian Bichir). Dom's been a good soldier, he's kept his mouth shut. After twelve years, Dom has a l...
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Wes Anderson’s Latest Diorama “The Grand Budapest Hotel” Isn’t His Tidiest
Wes Anderson is cinema’s inner child incarnate. His perfectly crafted interior universes - labyrinthine submarines, exotic trains, prestigious private schools - are populated by imperfect sad souls, live-action Charlie Browns who are forever mourning or resent...
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New Images Welcome You to ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
Wes Anderson's latest creation, The Grand Budapest Hotel, is another intricate and ornate cross-section into a world that normal people don't have the privilege of visiting. This Europe of the past, a sprawling and magnificent hotel set in the 1900s before the...
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Wes Side Story: Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest” Delightfully Opens 64th Berlinale
Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel delightfully opens the Berlinale.
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Something Old, Something New: Femme Fatale/Side Effects
Steven Soderbergh’s latest, possibly last, theatrical venture, Side Effects, is one of his most thrilling works. This is less because the film is billed as, and occasionally quite effective, as a thriller than the manner in which Soderbergh constantly redefine...
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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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Identity Thief/Side Effects: Two Paths to High Concept Failure
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"Two high-concept roads diverged in an AMC
And sorry I had to travel both." - Robert Frost, 2/8/13
Identity Thief, the newest magnum opus by Seth Gordon, and Side Effects, the grandest of finales by Steven Soderbergh, are cut from the exact same clo...
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