7 years ago
Reviews (10 posts found)
Blu-Ray Review of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
How fitting it is that The Criterion Collection should release Monsieur Verdoux and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp on Blu-Ray in the same month. Both are films respectively searching for morality in World War II’s wake and midst, crafting two of the riche...
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Steven Spielberg’s Epic Classic Jurassic Park Makes a Middling Return to the Silver Screen in 3D
C+
Upon its release in the summer of 1993, Jurassic Park instantly captured the imaginations of audiences around the world. Steven Spielberg once again transported us to a time and place we never thought could be possible. Seeing humans interact with massiv...
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The Power of Communication is Alive and Well in the Sublime Extraordinary Stories
Extraordinary Stories begins with an ordinary sight, of a man walking in medium-close-up down a dirt road in an extended shot. An off-screen narrator stresses the unremarkable banality of this man (played by director Mariano Llinás), whom he names only X amid ...
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Family and Fate Converge in the Intimate Epic The Place Beyond the Pines
A-
Two years ago, Derek Cianfrance made his narrative feature debut with the emotionally-charged, uncomfortable-yet-beautiful romantic drama Blue Valentine, which was about the despair and devastation of romantic relationships and the pain they leave behind...
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Minimalistic Stuck Tactfully Tackles Modern Romance
Stuck is a rush of pure honesty, a dash of feeling, an unfiltered romantic and sincere respite to the robotic and desensitized films Hollywood continues to churn out. Miraculously, Stuart Acher, in his directorial debut, has managed to tackle 21st century roma...
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Wrong: A Surreal Slog
F
If Quentin Dupieux is not the most emptily provocative and insufferably self-involved of the newest batch of noteworthy filmmakers, he’ll do ‘til the worst gets here. He is a glorified YouTube user who pads out mildly amusing five-minute videos into full-...
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation is a Tatum-less Bore
D
In retrospect, seeing a studio bumper for toy company Hasbro at the beginning of G.I. Joe: Retaliation should have been the first warning. A sequel to a terrible first entry in a series based on a line of action figures is not exactly a stamp guaranteeing...
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The Spectacular Silent Snow White, Blancanieves
A-
Blancanieves is a truly stunning motion picture, the kind of movie that makes you glad the movies exist. One of the most original and charming films of the year, it is an imaginative interpretation of the Snow White fairy tale that combines the visual powe...
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Spring Breakers Will Transport You To A Whole Other Plane Of Movie Watching
B
I really don't know if I'm supposed to be offended by Spring Breakers. After all, the opening five minutes are a Skrillex ode to "SPRING BREAK FOREVERRR" accentuated by gyrating topless co-eds being sprayed with beer by their male counterparts on the beac...
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Halle Berry Leads A Captivating and Pulsating, Albeit Morally Ambiguous Thriller With The Call
C
As a 911 operator, veteran Jordan Turner is the one difference between someone living and someone dying. Contemplate that notion for a moment. Millions of lives in your hands, lives depending on your actions, your immediate response to their crisis. After y...
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