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Sundance 2017 Wrap-Up
Marshall Shaffer wraps up his coverage of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival with this look back at the week that was.
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Sundance 2017 Dispatch: Three Distinct Love Stories
Marshall Shaffer submits this dispatch from the 2017 Sundance Film Festival on three different love stories, crossing time and the cosmic plane.
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TIFF 2016 Dispatch: “Daguerreotype,” “Una,” “Moonlight,” and “Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids”
Kenji Fujishima rounds up his TIFF 2016 experience with a dispatch of four final films.
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Why Laika Is The Most Important Modern Animation Studio
Josh Spiegel writes about Laika's new film "Kubo and the Two Strings" and the common themes it shares with the studio's other features.
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Through a Glass Lovingly: The Cinematography of Todd Haynes
In Todd Haynes’ Carol, the only time we are with Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) is in the car on the way to Carol Aird’s (Cate Blanchett) home in New Jersey. By “with,” this means when the audience is truly given the opportunity to grasp her mentality and emoti...
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“Carol” Is A Hollow Exercise in Style
Carol is a well-made, technically proficient melodrama armed with a compulsive visual evocation of the time in which it is set. Director Todd Haynes’s latest is a sumptuous walk through the 1950s Spiegel catalog, taking its time to dote on and savor the shallo...
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“Trash” Is Almost Predictably Lousy
First, a brief moment to note the pun-tastic woes of Rooney Mara, co-starring in two critically disliked films opening on the same day, helpfully titled Pan and Trash. These folks make it awfully easy for us sometimes. As a pal pointed out, this is actually t...
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“Pan” Is A Cut Above Other Fantasy Reimaginings
J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan already had one notorious reimagining in Steven Spielberg’s Hook, and the existence of Joe Wright’s new “prequel” immediately conjures the specter of the dreadful Oz the Great and Powerful: both involve a contrived origin story about th...
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AFI Fest Review: ‘Her’
I've loved all of Spike Jonze's work, but I was incredibly skeptical of Her. What looked like a story about a man falling in love with Siri, complete with him spinning in romantic circles with his phone, just seemed like too much. It was a rotten attitude to b...
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‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’: A Flawed and Fictional Cinematic Folk Song
On paper, David Lowery's Ain't Them Bodies Saints is the kind of film that I'd be all over. Melding elements of an elegiac, Malick-ian romance with a Western-infused, Coen Brothers-esque crime plot, the 'Texas-set period film stars Rooney Mara and Casey Afflec...
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