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‘Endless Love’ is an Interminable Mess
When I was 11 years old, I snuck into Brooke Shields’ R-rated 1981 feature, Endless Love. The commercials advertised a dirty movie. What I got was so boring and strained that, to save my afternoon, I snuck into another theater to see the gory werewolf movie, W...
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“The Pretty One”: An Original Film With an Unfortunate Identity Crisis
Practically coined as timeless catch phrases ready to be employed as self-loathing resources by the insecure and emotionally volatile youngsters of any given generation are questions and statements like “Who am I” “What am I doing here”” No one loves me” “Will...
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The Dark, Offbeat “Vic + Flo Saw a Bear” Is A Pleasant Surprise Worth Seeking Out
Two ex-con lovers attempt to make a go at a normal life together. They settle in a cottage nestled deep in the wilderness of Quebec. They play house with each other and play nice with a parole officer. But despite their best efforts, a life of tranquility isn'...
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“The Last of the Unjust”: Mythology and Reality, Thoughtfully and Harrowingly Exposed
Culled from the very first interviews Claude Lanzmann conducted for his landmark Shoah, The Last of the Unjust focuses on one man in isolation, Benjamin Murmelstein, last of the Elders of the Jewish Council of the Theresiensadt ghetto near Vienna. The film pre...
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It’s Worth Taking A Trip To ‘Somewhere Slow’
Jeremy O'Keefe's character study is simple yet intimate and moving.
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‘The Wait’ Wallows In Self-Seriousness
Imbued with an overwhelming sense of self-importance and art-house allure, M.Blash’s The Wait is a pointless, towering cheat of a film. Keeping the viewer at arm’s length throughout, this stone-faced mediation on life, death, and the surreal registers as nothi...
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‘That Awkward Moment’ When A Film Doesn’t Live Up To Its Title
If you've watched the red-band trailer for freshman director Tom Gormican's That Awkward Moment, then you've already seen most of its titular embarrassments unfold on screen. That's sort of a shame; That Awkward Moment is many things, but it's never all that s...
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‘Tim’s Vermeer’ Is A Passable Documentary
Where is the line between art and technology? Is there even one at all? In the realm of cinema, we tend to dismiss the idea that there is any such separation. Movies would not be possible without advanced mechanical (and digital) techniques. But what about the...
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‘Labor Day’: A Conventional Tearjerker
Jason Reitman's latest film is surprising. It manages to preserve only scarce traces of what defined its predecessors, Juno, Up in the Air and Young Adult - a particular sense of humour that infused the overall tone and shaped the films' attitude. Labor Day, o...
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