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Stoker: Korean Style Meets American Gothic in Beautifully Depraved Coming-of-Age Tale
A
At what point does style become substance? Many of Alfred Hitchcock’s thrillers were really quite pedestrian, predictable stories, but the director’s mastery of style and craft turned many of those films into beautiful works of art. The same could be said...
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Dark Skies Is Better Than You Thought It Would Be
B
Dark Skies has everything going against it. It's directed by Scott Stewart--who's responsible for the awful duds Legion and Priest--, it's another creepy-house horror movie in an era that's littered with Paranormal Activitys and Sinisters, the trailer was...
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A Lake: Rolling Bank of Fog Can’t Hide Transparent Flaws
D
There's a pull quote on one of the advertisements for A Lake comparing the film's director Philippe Grandrieux to the likes of Bela Tarr. In a way, this comparison makes sense. While not without some notable differences, Grandrieux's A Lake is relentlessl...
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Beautiful Creatures: Satanic and Silly
C-
College-bound senior in high school Ethan Wate (Aiden Ehrenreich) wants to escape Gatlin, South Carolina. He’s tired of the archaic ways of the South, the ignorant people, and the lack of culture. Alas, with absence of parents (he's cared for by Viola Da...
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The Fire Heats Up Cold Euro-Drama
C+
Brigitte Maria Bertele’s The Fire starts innocuously enough, with a thirtysomething physical therapist, Judith (Maja Schöne) heading out for a night at the club alone after her boyfriend (Mark Waschke) calls with an excuse for not coming. She dances inno...
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A Zombie Learns to Love in Charming Warm Bodies
B+
As humans, most of us want to feel something. Happiness, pain, anger, joy, sadness, depression, love. To feel is to be alive. R (an unusual, semi-conscious zombie played by Nicholas Hoult) doesn't remember what it was like to be human or to be connected ...
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‘A Haunted House:’ Fifty Examples of Marlon Wayans’ Sense of Humor
F
I took copious notes during A Haunted House, shaking off hand cramps and straining to listen to the dialogue over the howls of laughter from the man sitting to my left and the snores of the man sitting to my right. I fell somewhere in between my two aisle...
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