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All posts by Dan Schindel
Sundance Review: ‘I Origins’ Laughably Explores Science and Faith
Mike Cahill's sophomore narrative feature is too silly to be profound.
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Sundance Review: ‘Boyhood’ Is A Magnificent Labor of Love
Richard Linklater's latest film is a magnificent labor of love.
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Sundance Reviews: ‘Hellion,’ ‘Mitt,’ ‘The Girl from Nagasaki,’ ‘Dear White People,’ ‘Laggies’
Dan Schindel reports on five films playing at Sundance this year.
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For Your Reconsideration: ‘Touchy Feely’
Lynn Shelton's latest feature didn't receive the attention it deserves.
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‘Saving Mr. Banks’ Hates Its Lead Character
At one point in Saving Mr. Banks, author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) looks at what writers from Walt Disney Studios have done to one of her characters and asks why they've made him so terrible. Watching this film, I wondered the same thing about its treatment...
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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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AFI Fest Review: ‘We Are the Best!’
It's 1982, and punk is dead. But a trio of preteen girls decides that they'll keep its spirit alive.
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AFI Fest Review: ‘Moebius’
Moebius seems like the purest distillation of everything that Ki-duk Kim is as a filmmaker. It's completely without dialogue, tears through taboos like the Kool-Aid Man through tissue paper, and sticks itself in your mind like a difficult thorn. It's the kind ...
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‘Frozen’ Tries And Fails To Be Both Traditional And Modern
Disney's latest animated feature is stuck between playing it safe and trying something new.
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Spike Lee’s ‘Oldboy’ Remake Disappoints
In 2003, Oldboy struck at precisely the right time for movie lovers. It was able to introduce a whole slew of canny viewers to the then-blossoming world of Korean cinema. It put director Park Chan-wook and his Vengeance Trilogy on the map. For the film, famed ...
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