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“Joe” Lets David Gordon Green Out Of His Cage
The rural American South is quickly becoming the setting of choice for filmmakers looking to tell gritty, authentic stories. Last year, there was Jeff Nichols’ Mud, set in a poor Arkansas river town, and this year, HBO’s True Detective set its Southern Gothic ...
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Kristen Wiig’s Mannered Dramatic Performance Torpedoes “Hateship Loveship”
There are two films at work in Hateship Loveship. One is an affecting gander into a twilight-years romance, while the other is a slog starring Kristen Wiig in a questionable dramatic role. Take a guess which one gets the bulk of the running time.
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“Nymphomaniac Vol. II” Gives Us The Whole Story And Much More
The problem with the release of Nymphomaniac isn't that it was split into two volumes – it’s that those volumes were released on different days. The idea of splitting a film into multiple volumes, in of itself, is actually an extremely exciting one. Can you im...
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“Under the Skin”: Extraterrestrial Earth
J. Hoberman said of Eraserhead: “[It’s] not a movie I’d drop acid for, although I would consider it a revolutionary act if someone dropped a reel of it into the middle of Star Wars.” Those comments could just as easily apply to Under the Skin. Jonathan Glazer’...
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Knowing “Alan Partridge”: The British DJ’s Big-Screen Debut Forgets What He’s All About
You could say Alan Partridge was made for the Internet Age. The British comedy persona, a disc jockey from Norfolk and disastrous one-time BBC chat presenter, is a real new media junkie. Pushing sixty at this point, Partridge has relaunched himself on the late...
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“Dom Hemingway” Is All Swagger
Dom Hemingway (Jude Law) is an angry man. He's just been released from prison after serving a 12-year stretch as a fall guy for his gangster boss Mr. Fontaine (Demian Bichir). Dom's been a good soldier, he's kept his mouth shut. After twelve years, Dom has a l...
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No Retirement for Entertaining Marvel Sequel, “Captain America: The Winter Solider”
"Captain America retires! " Such scandalous news made headlines in the American media a few days ago. Chris Evans, one of the key players in the Marvel-inspired film universe, announced that he's abandoning acting indefinitely in favor of directing. The reason...
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“Finding Vivian Maier”: A Disconnect Between Form and Content
There is a conundrum that film critics often face while writing about documentary cinema: although form and content are perhaps more easily separable in documentary films, they are also significantly easier to conflate in criticism. Meaning fiction films are r...
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Aronofsky’s “Noah” Can’t Keep Its Head Above Water
Love him or hate him, Darren Aronofsky has always been a filmmaker with vision. Be it in the unrelenting close-ups and quick-cuts of Requiem for a Dream, the body-horror of Black Swan or the breathtaking celestial sights of The Fountain, he’s a director who re...
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