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Finding Out the Damned Truth
On its 25th anniversary, Sean Gilman writes this essay about Oliver Stone's searing political film "JFK."
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Now Playing: “Jason Bourne”
In this week's critic-at-large column, Mallory Andrews reviews the latest entry in the Jason Bourne franchise, fittingly called "Jason Bourne."
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A Tale of Two Batmans: “Forever” and “Begins”
Batman doesn’t exist. Objectively, Joel Schumacher’s neon camp-fests are no less defensible than the “what if he were a real guy?” approach director Christopher Nolan and co-screenwriter David Goyer introduced 10 years ago with Batman Begins. Batman has been a...
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“The Homesman”
Stakes are high and conditions are hostile in Tommy Lee Jones’ contrastingly low-key and peaceable revisionist western The Homesman, which favors the storyline and dignified virtues of a brave frontierswoman in 19th-century Nebraska, over machismo and the law ...
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Challenging the Canon: “No Country For Old Men”
As widespread as they are, film adaptations of novels rarely come close to satisfying audiences familiar with the source. The relationship between reader and reading material can possess a covetous quality. Novels spark the imagination of an individual, and wh...
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Luc Besson’s ‘The Family’ Amounts to Nada
A grumpy Robert De Niro walks into a movie theater with an even grumpier Tommy Lee Jones. They each take their reserved seating on the front row, only to be informed that the film they were originally gonna watch, Vincente Minnelli's Some Came Running, was mis...
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Oscar Talk: Reactions to the Nominations
Writers Russell Hainline and Andreas Stoehr discuss this morning's Academy Award nominations.
Russell: Congratulations this morning to all of the nominees, including to 2013's Best Picture winner, Lincoln. With the utterly stunning snubs of Affleck and Bige...
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