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Now Playing: “The Edge of Seventeen”
Vikram Murthi looks back a week in this critic-at-large column to review the new teen movie "The Edge of Seventeen."
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“Mockingjay — Part 2” Is Little More Than A Bland Feel-Good Tale
Yet again, splitting one book into multiple films proves to be a horrendous idea—artistically, that is: The two parts of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay will unquestionably make far more money than a single movie would have. It’s honestly surprising that a multi-...
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The Act of Silence: LBJ and the Indonesian Genocide of 1965
Between The Act of Killing and now The Look of Silence, filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer has now given audiences a well-rounded look at a tragic event that had somehow been lost to history’s abyss: the killing of up to a million innocent civilians by the Indonesia...
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Weekend Box Office: Exactly What You Expected
Given that the previous two installments in the series racked up $840 million in the U.S. alone, each with $150 million opening weekends, and that there's plenty of Thanksgiving movies coming down the pike as the holiday approaches, no other major studio put a...
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“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1”
You can call what’s going to follow “half a review”, as for reasons that evidently don’t stretch beyond doubling up the box office of the franchise’s final installment, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 1 is also cut up in half. This is the first half of Su...
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Woody Harrelson & Liam Hemsworth Team for “By Way of Helena”
News of an intriguing project has hit the web, with Woody Harrelson and Liam Hemsworth playing the leads in the 1880s Western By Way of Helena from director Kieran Darcy-Smith (Wish You Were Here). The script from Matt Cook (the upcoming John Hillcoat crime th...
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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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‘Out of the Furnace’: A Sore Disappointment
Out of the Furnace saddens me. It's a movie that fights so hard to be great, only to wind up stranded in some middling zone of effectiveness. It has a concept and story that I want to work, told by a cast and crew of artists whom I almost uniformly like or lov...
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New ‘Out of the Furnace’ Photos Show Bale and Affleck’s Brotherly Bond
New stills from Scott Cooper's Out of the Furnace have arrived, giving us a look at Christian Bale and Casey Affleck as two brothers with a penchant for attracting trouble. The film centers on Bale as Russell Baze, an ex-con who must stop his younger brother f...
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The Terrence Malick Retrospective: The Thin Red Line
The Movie Mezzanine Filmmaker Retrospective series takes on an entire body of work–be it director’s, screenwriter’s, or otherwise–and analyzes each portion of the filmography. By the final post of a retrospective, there will be a better understanding of the fi...
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