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Violence and the American Man
In the wake of another mass shooting, Omer M. Mozaffar looks at "American Sniper" and "Fruitvale Station" as disparate modern commentaries on American violence.
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The New Vanguard of Directors
In 2015, Marya E. Gates did something radical: She devoted her entire film viewing for a year to women directors. Bridging the personal and the political, she took a stand as a critic, implying that some of the responsibility of inequality within the film indu...
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“Creed” Is A Career-Making Film For Michael B. Jordan
The most frustrating aspect of this summer’s Fantastic Four—aside from a poor script, spotty authorial oversight, scads of exposition that went nowhere, Kate Mara’s hilarious wig, and approximately 527 other things—was its gross misuse of one Michael B. Jordan...
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“Fantastic Four” Isn’t Terrible, Just Unremarkable
A cursory browse of the Internet suggests that the new Fantastic Four may as well be one of the worst films ever made: an Adam Sandleresque score on Low Hanging Fruit, unusually harsh user rating on the Internet Males Database, and widely reported tales of pro...
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We Were Once A Fairytale: On The Fantastic Four
The story of the Fantastic Four is essentially the story of Icarus. In the ancient version, a young man gifted with wings bound in wax ignores his father’s warnings about straying too close to the sun and plummets into the sea in a rain of melted wax. The Fant...
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It’s Clobberin Time! Meet the Cast of the new ‘Fantastic Four’
Fox has found the stars needed to reboot the Fantastic Four series. According to THR, Fox is in final negotiations with Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell to bring the heroes to the big screen once again. Josh Trank, who previously direc...
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‘That Awkward Moment’ When A Film Doesn’t Live Up To Its Title
If you've watched the red-band trailer for freshman director Tom Gormican's That Awkward Moment, then you've already seen most of its titular embarrassments unfold on screen. That's sort of a shame; That Awkward Moment is many things, but it's never all that s...
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Truth, Facts, and ‘Fruitvale Station’
Film is an exceptional art form to convey truth.
Film is a shoddy art form to convey facts.
Whenever a high-profile film that's based on recent events comes out, without fail, at least a small part of the conversation around the film is devoted to how "t...
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‘Fruitvale Station’: A Powerful and Wildly Imperfect Recreation of A Tragic Injustice
Republished and altered from our coverage of the 2013 LA Film Festival.
Reviewing a film like Fruitvale Station is challenging. Movies based on true stories are already hard enough to critique on a plot or character level, but when you're dealing with such...
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LAFF Review: ‘Fruitvale Station’ is Equally Powerful and Problematic
Reviewing a film like Fruitvale Station is unbelievably challenging. Movies based on true stories are already hard enough to critique on a plot or character level, but when you're dealing with such a harrowing, difficult story as the one about what happened on...
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