AltWeeklies Wire
Limits of Respect: Massaging FDR Pays Modest Dividends
If only we could see Bill Murray’s FDR hanging out with Daniel Day Lewis’s Lincoln, then there might be…well, another mediocre life-slice movie about dead presidents.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
12-03-2012 |
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Anna Kareninanew
From Russia with love.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
11-30-2012 |
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Tags: Leo Tolstoy
Joe Wright attempts to slap a new facade on an old 'Anna Karenina' barnnew
Does Tolstoy really matter anymore? Directors regularly attempt to plunder the great master's musty catalog, among which the sweaty, love-drenched Anna Karenina ranks as one of the greats.
San Antonio Current |
Corey Hall |
11-28-2012 |
Movies
Life of Pi's success is visual, rather than dramaticnew
You will not see a better looking film this year. But you will undoubtedly see better films.
San Antonio Current |
Jeffrey Meyer |
11-28-2012 |
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Killing Them Softly is a hitman allegory about the Great Recessionnew
Killing Them Softly, the new crime caper thriller from writer/director Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford), is set in 2008, during the height of the panic over the U.S. financial collapse and the run-up to Barack Obama's election. I mention this because you might miss that crucial bit of subtext if you're not paying close attention to the excerpts from Obama's election-night speech that are included during the jaggedly edited opening sequence. Or during the centerpiece heist sequence. Or five minutes later when someone has the car radio on. Or pretty much every time anyone in this movie is listening to a radio or watching a television.
Charleston City Paper |
Scott Renshaw |
11-28-2012 |
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Tags: Killing Them Softly
Bankers’ Penalty Andrew Dominik’s One-Movie Revolution Comes Calling
One of the ten best films of 2012, Andrew Dominik’s cold-blooded satire of American corporate-political-capitalism cuts through its subject like a freshly sharpened guillotine blade.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
11-26-2012 |
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Silver Linings Playbook is more than a rom-comnew
The most surprising thing about Silver Linings Playbook is how relentlessly funny it is. The laughs arise with organic force, triggering that slightly out-of-control quality that manifests in genuine fits of hysteria.
Can I Have This Dance?new
Life requires a bit of choreography. Some of us just take a little longer to learn the moves.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
11-21-2012 |
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Life of Pi worth examiningnew
Rating: ***1/2
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
11-21-2012 |
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Tags: Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Ang Lee's Life of Pi is more of a spectacle than a storynew
The credits introduce us to the title character's lush home, an Indian zoo run by his family. His mother is a spiritualist, while his father preaches the importance of science and tough love.
Charleston City Paper |
Jake Mulligan |
11-21-2012 |
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Seeking Justice: Ken Burns Takes One for the Team
It’s tempting to think that gross miscarriages of justice are less likely to occur in big cities, where police and judicial oversight are theoretically more prevalent than small insular towns — like Memphis for example.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
11-20-2012 |
Movies
Ang Lee Goes Big: Ocean Survival Story Raises the Bar on Spectacle
Gracefully sidestepping its overreaching, religiously didactic premise — that the unfolding story offers up absolute proof of God — Ang Lee’s lush 3D adaptation of Yann Martel’s restrained novel of magical realism is a stunner.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
11-19-2012 |
Movies
Bloody Good Shownew
Daniel Craig brings new dimensions to James Bond in “Skyfall,” the 23rd film in the franchise.
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
11-16-2012 |
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Let's Get Meta-physicalnew
The film is touching, quite funny, very lovely to look at and intellectually mature.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
11-15-2012 |
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Bond Is a Badassnew
'Skyfall' may be the best 007 film of all time.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
11-15-2012 |
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