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Now Playing: “High-Rise”
In this week's critic-at-large column, Vikram Murthi reviews the latest film from Ben Wheatley, "High-Rise."
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“Crimson Peak” Is A New High For Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro will not be mistaken. He’d very much like for his new film, the magnificently wrought Crimson Peak, to not be spoken of as a horror film. On Twitter, he clarified that the film is a “Gothic Romance,” and then compared its tense creepiness to...
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12 (and 1/2) Films We’re Looking Forward To At TIFF 2015
The world is changed. We feel it in the water. We feel it in the earth. We smell it in the air. That's right, it's festival season in the world of film. The Telluride Film Festival just wrapped up over the weekend, which can only mean one thing: the Toronto In...
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Spotlight on Fandor: “The Deep Blue Sea”
Terence Davies’s films function so completely as works of personal memory that the director’s gift for vividly detailed period recreation turns history itself into mere context for a life lived. This is especially true of the autobiographical first phase of hi...
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Vampire 3.0: How Jim Jarmusch Evolves The Bloodsuckers
Only Lovers Left Alive is Jim Jarmusch' antidote to the declining prestige of the vampire image.
In Jarmusch' latest film a whole army of stars decides to test-ride immortality. However, even though Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, and John Hu...
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“Only Lovers Left Alive”
The main character in Only Lovers Left Alive is literally a romantic. Adam (Tom Hiddleston) is a centuries-old vampire, and according to his lover Eve (Tilda Swinton,) his personality was shaped by Romantic-era “assholes” like Shelley and Byron. Now he resides...
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SXSW Review: Jim Jarmusch Plays By His Own Rules in “Only Lovers Left Alive”
Jim Jarmusch is a filmmaker who has long been concerned with human behavior, forgoing traditional narratives in favor of observing people interacting with one another, without anything ever really “happening”. When things do happen, it is without much fanfare,...
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Sundance Review: ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ Finds Life in Being Undead
The latest film from Jim Jarmusch follows two disillusioned vampires living passionately among the rest of us.
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Critic Speak: Thinking About ‘Thor’
Thor: The Dark World rolled out into theaters this weekend, dominated the box office and is proving to be more successful than the first Thor in a post Avengers world. Marvel films tend to spur more critical talk back than most big tent pole films and Thor: Th...
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‘Thor: The Dark World’: A Shiny, Very Expensive and Uncreative Turd of a Motion Picture
Let's be real for a minute: Marvel Studios has to date produced one fairly impressive spectacle (The Avengers) and five mediocre superhero adaptations, all of which find themselves interlinked within the same universe. Increasingly, each Marvel film offers ple...
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