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“Before You Know It” Is a Tender, Moving Look At Love in Old Age
At the beginning of Before You Know It, main character Dennis rhapsodizes on how the young never think about getting old. I must be an outlier, because I think about getting old all the time. I think about mortality in general an awful lot, really. And that mi...
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“Filth”: Has Plenty of It And Nothing Else
Telling a story entirely through the perspective of a film’s main character is a tricky proposition if that character is a drug-addled, hallucinating, misogynist wreck of a human being. Such filmmaking is tantamount to daring the audience to endure a high-temp...
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“A Million Ways To Die In The West”: Regressing In Time Literally and Figuratively
Since the inception of Family Guy back in 1999, Seth McFarlane has proven himself to be somewhat of a jack-of-all-trades. A writer, director, comedian, producer, voice actor and Sinatra impersonator, the New England born performer has his hands in an assortmen...
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“Blended”: A Sour Sandler-Barrymore Reunion
At first, Blended seems like just the latest emotionally stunted Happy Madison production, those nearly annual occurrences that increasingly resemble ritualistic tributes to some ancient evil with horrible taste. It opens not merely in a Hooters but in the bat...
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“X-Men: Days of Future Past”: All The Mutants and Pep Talks You Could Ask For
After 61 live-action feature-length DC Comics movies and Marvel Comics pictures, there’s bound to be a bushel of subpar apples in the multi-billion dollar barrel. The 62nd picture hails the return of Bryan Singer to the franchise he helped put on the box offic...
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‘Words and Pictures’ (That We’ve Seen Many Times Before)
If any given scene from Words and Pictures was taken out and presented devoid of context, it would play perfectly as a joke scene that a show like The Simpsons might make up as a parody of cliched romantic comedies. It's not so much that the film has a stock p...
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I Ain’t Afraid of No “Stage Fright”
I had a dream this movie would be -- So different from the shit I'm watching! A dream of a funny yet bloody musical horror comedy. But now that dream is dead, and all that's left is Stage Fright.
The curtain rises: Minnie Driver plays a Christine Daaé-esque s...
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“Million Dollar Arm” Throws a Neat Double Play
Disney has cornered the market on “based on a true story” sports movies. Million Dollar Arm is their latest contribution to the genre that includes Cool Runnings, The Rookie and Remember the Titans, among others. Their patented studio recipe is evident: Combin...
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“The Immigrant” Displays James Gray At His Best
The bronze color filter of The Immigrant stands apart from the romanticized sepias that typically shade period films. Its yellow-brown hue is grimy and dirty, as if shot through industrial pollution instead of an ancient lens. The skies around Ellis Island and...
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“Godzilla” Destroys Effing Everything
2014 is the year Toho's favorite son, Godzilla, turns 60. It's also the year that the vaunted American studio system tries its hand again at appropriating the iconic granddaddy of all kaiju for entertainment purposes, Roland Emmerich be damned. Why Godzilla? W...
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