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All posts by Jake Cole
TIFF Review: Alfonso Cuarón’s Unimpressive and Regressive Sci-Fi Excursion, ‘Gravity’
Earth looms so large at the start of Gravity that only after a while is a small white dot at the far right of the frame revealed to be a space shuttle. The shot displays a grasp of scale for the vastness of space often lost in science fiction films, and it per...
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TIFF Capsule Reviews: ‘Bastards’, ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’, and ‘La Última Película’
Reviews of Claire Denis' Bastards, Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive and La Última Película.
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Fanboy Versus Fanboy: The Genius of Edgar Wright
[Note: This article contains spoilers for “The World’s End."]
Edgar Wright’s latest film, The World’s End, arrives on a wave of critical praise centered primarily on how the film’s science fiction elements reflect its characters' struggle with middle age. T...
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Indie Idol Joe Swanberg Devolves Into Conventionalism with ‘Drinking Buddies’
Drinking Buddies shows the prolific independent filmmaker Joe Swanberg at last developing his rough DIY form to something with a passable sheen of professionalism, and he has been blessed with a name cast for his effort. Olivia Wilde, Ron Livingston, Jake John...
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Netflix Instant Picks: 8/16/13—8/22/13
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. Read on for this week’s picks.
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Mother (Bong Joon-ho, 2009)
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History of Film: Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Fanny and Alexander’
In spotlighting Ingmar Bergman’s magnum opus Fanny and Alexander as one of the great films of the 1980s, one cannot help but marvel at how out of step with the ‘80s it is, and least of all for its period setting in the early years of the 20th century. In a dec...
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Netflix Instant Picks (8/9/13—8/15/13)
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. Read on for this week’s picks.
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Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee,...
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Netflix Instant Picks (8/2/13—8/8/13)
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. Read on for this week’s picks.
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Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (...
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Netflix Instant Picks (7/27/13—8/1/13)
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. Read on for this week’s picks.
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The Intouchables (Olivier Nakache ...
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Netflix Instant Picks (7/19-13—7/25/13)
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. Read on for this week’s picks.
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13 Assassins (Takashi Miike, ...
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