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in “Where to Invade Next”
Note. This review was originally published as part of our New York Film Festival 2015 coverage.
Just the mention of Michael Moore is enough to send some viewers into spasms of protest. The Oscar-winning documentarian has a history of provoking the right side ...
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Kent Jones on “Hitchcock/Truffaut” and Opening Up Cinephilia
Kent Jones may be best known as a New York-based film critic and programmer, serving as the editor-at-large of Film Comment for a decade before eventually becoming the director of programming for the New York Film Festival. But Jones' love of cinema has manife...
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The “Secret In Their Eyes” Is That This Movie Is Ludicrous
Secret In Their Eyes is an American remake of the Oscar-winning Argentinian thriller The Secret in Their Eyes. Writer-director Billy Ray’s version drops the word “the” from its title but retains much of its predecessor’s plot. The film’s politics also get an A...
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“Carol” Is A Hollow Exercise in Style
Carol is a well-made, technically proficient melodrama armed with a compulsive visual evocation of the time in which it is set. Director Todd Haynes’s latest is a sumptuous walk through the 1950s Spiegel catalog, taking its time to dote on and savor the shallo...
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“The Peanuts Movie” Is A Respectful Love Letter to Fans
The Peanuts Movie is a love letter to fans and a respectful ode to creator Charles Schulz’s timeless characters. It neither embraces the current trend of justifying and explaining every element that made its subject so beloved, nor does it stitch the diminishi...
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“Bridge of Spies” Is Snarky and Suspenseful
Bridge of Spies is the true story of James Donovan, an insurance claims lawyer tasked with negotiating the release of a military pilot shot down over enemy lines during the height of the Cold War. Directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay assist from Joe...
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NYFF Review: “Steve Jobs”
Early in Steve Jobs, the late Apple mastermind played by Michael Fassbender defines the purpose of his company: “Our job is to tell the customers what they want.” Underneath the famous “Think Different” catchphrase that accompanied the classic 1984-style Super...
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NYFF Review: “Where to Invade Next”
Just the mention of Michael Moore is enough to send some viewers into spasms of protest. The Oscar-winning documentarian has a history of provoking the right side of the political aisle with films like Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine. Moore has incur...
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NYFF Review: “De Palma”
My Roger Ebert website questionnaire asked for a movie I loved but everyone else hated. I chose Wise Guys, a movie that even hardcore Brian De Palma fans won’t endorse. Released in 1986, the Danny DeVito-Joe Piscopo movie marked its director’s return to comedy...
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“The Walk” Is An Astonishing Spectacle
For acrophobics, The Walk will be an exercise in sadism. Director Robert Zemeckis’ camera caresses every inch of the Twin Towers, leering straight down into wide open spaces from 110 stories above the greatest city in the world. As master of all it surveys, th...
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