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Diaz Talks Dirty: Move Over Bad Santa, There's a New Baddie in Town
For the first time since her unforgettable appearance in the Farrelly Brothers' 1998 gross out comedy "There's Something About Mary" Cameron Diaz fulfills her comedic promise.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
06-21-2011 |
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Secret Agent Bland
Cars 2 doesn’t earn the support of those who defended the original.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-21-2011 |
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Pretentiousness the True Leading Role in The Art of Getting Bynew
While one could argue about where the line between brilliance and bullshit starts to blur with films like Richard Linklater’s 2001 mindbender Waking Life, Darren Aronofsky’s 2006 mystical sci-fi drama The Fountain, or anything from the conceptual mind of director Terrence Malick, the creative weight they carry should be considered when deciding whether you ultimately deem the work profound or phony.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
06-20-2011 |
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A Scorching Odyssey of Death and Rebirthnew
The opening sequence in Incendies is a stunning piece of poetic filmmaking: A desert in the Middle East framed in the window of a barracks where a dozen young Muslim conscripts readied for combat are having their heads shaved. Radiohead’s haunting “You and Whose Army?” quietly plays as the camera zooms in on a child soldier who refuses to blink.
San Antonio Current |
Gregg Barrios |
06-20-2011 |
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J.J. Abrams Aims High With Super 8, and Nearly Arrivesnew
As much as filmmaker J.J. Abrams (Star Trek) would have liked for his nostalgic sci-fi Super 8 to convey as much enchantment as a Steven Spielberg-directed masterpiece like E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial or Close Encounters of the Third Kind, it doesn’t quite reach that ambitious goal.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
06-20-2011 |
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Page One: Inside the New York Timesnew
Andrew Rossi's documentary Page One buffs the Grey Lady's image.
New York Press |
Armond White |
06-17-2011 |
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Terrence Malick's Latest Visual Epic, The Tree of Lifenew
Malick claimed the prestigious Palme d'Or with The Tree of Life, and with this effort, he's tripping along at a rate of about one film per decade.
Super 8: Raiders of a Lost Artnew
Writer-director J.J. Abrams' adventure yarn Super 8 is set in 1979, a year that's nestled between the release dates of Steven Spielberg's first two blockbusters, 1975's Jaws and 1977's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and his subsequent two blockbusters, 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark and 1982's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
06-16-2011 |
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Midnight in Paris: Say Oui to Woodynew
Stating that Midnight in Paris is Woody Allen's best film in over a decade really doesn't mean anything at all, considering that most of his output since the previous century has consisted of such clunkers as Hollywood Ending and Cassandra's Dream.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
06-16-2011 |
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Meek’s Cutoff is a Historic Horror Filmnew
A haunting meditation on existence set in the Pioneer West of 1845 Oregon, Meek's Cutoff plunges you into a reality not your own but so tactile and vivid you begin to feel its sensations.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
06-15-2011 |
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Tags: Meek's Cutoff
Super 8: Abrams' Instant Summer Classicnew
Starring Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning and Kyle Chandler.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
06-15-2011 |
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Tags: Super 8
Where Have All The Bees Gone?new
Documentary looks at the mysterious disappearance of honeybees and the repercussions that has had on humans.
Boise Weekly |
Elizabeth Duffy |
06-15-2011 |
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Tags: Ellen Page, Vanishing of the Bees
Special Delivery: Jim Carrey Keeps Penguins Afloat
Loosely based on Florence Atwater's 1938 children's book, "Mr. Popper's Penguins" never completely gels.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
06-13-2011 |
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X-Men: First Classnew
How they got that way, more or less.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
06-13-2011 |
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Mexican Journalists Chronicle Lives of Two Who Died at San Fernando Slaughternew
The small town of San Fernando, situated just 90 miles south of Brownsville in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, emerged as a symbol of the ferocious drug war gripping Mexico in late August 2010 when authorities stumbled upon the bodies of 72 South- and Central-American immigrants who had been bound, blindfolded, and methodically executed by gunmen on the outskirts of an abandoned ranch.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
06-09-2011 |
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