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Spike Jonze's Her is dazzlingnew

Retro-futuristic romance with the most sincere of faces.
INDY Week  |  Craig D. Lindsey  |  01-09-2014  |  Reviews

Dallas Buyers Club is a drama of the AIDS crisisnew

As good as Matthew McConaughey is here — and this is the performance of his suddenly rising career — he is repeatedly upstaged by Jared Leto.
INDY Week  |  Neil Morris  |  11-22-2013  |  Reviews

Delivery Man is a grown-up comedy for Vince Vaughnnew

All of its unexpected merits are not meant to suggest that Delivery Man is great; hell, it's hard to definitively qualify it as good.
INDY Week  |  Isaac Weeks  |  11-22-2013  |  Reviews

Fruitvale Station speaks to post-Trayvon Martin Americanew

It's a sad state of affairs when movies like Fruitvale Station have to show everyone what they should know by now: Black people are people, too.
INDY Week  |  Craig D. Lindsey  |  07-24-2013  |  Reviews

Renoir the painter and Renoir the filmmakernew

Renoir, a ravishing and sensuous imagining of one summer late in the life of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, makes the great painter's work matter again by putting an aging man's passions into an emotional and historical context.
INDY Week  |  David Fellerath  |  05-09-2013  |  Reviews

A Compelling Tale of NYC Graffiti Artists in Gimme the Lootnew

For his very low-budget debut, writer/director Andre Leon makes a spirited teen comedy with predominantly minority characters, which is damn near amazing in itself.
INDY Week  |  Craig D. Lindsey  |  04-24-2013  |  Reviews

This year's Oscar shorts, in four programsnew

There's a strong crop of Animated Short Film nominees this year, and unusually, none of the nominees are CGI. In fact, there's a welcome return of old-school animation, with hand-drawn and stop-motion animation among the candidates.
INDY Week  |  Zack Smith  |  01-30-2013  |  Movies

Matt Damon's anti-fracking Promised Landnew

It's hard to achieve high-minded aims using this single-minded script, acting and filmmaking acumen.
INDY Week  |  Neil Morris  |  01-02-2013  |  Reviews

David Chase's feature debut, the nostalgic Not Fade Awaynew

While The Sopranos creator still has trouble knowing how to end a story, he does know how to pen a love letter to rock 'n' roll.
INDY Week  |  Craig D. Lindsey  |  01-02-2013  |  Reviews

Les Misérables reaches the screen in an extravagant visualizationnew

If you are one of the many fans of the popular Les Miz, you will find the cinematic version exciting and rewarding. Not a fan? You may remain unconvinced.
INDY Week  |  Laura Boyes  |  12-26-2012  |  Reviews

Django Unchainednew

Tarantino's new film, Django Unchained, is a pulp fantasy of the antebellum South in which a black man avenges slavery by killing a lot of white people.
INDY Week  |  David Fellerath  |  12-26-2012  |  Reviews

The Year in Film 2012new

Was this the year of the doc? PLUS: 5 Top 10s; It came from the South; On the cutting room floor
INDY Week  |  Staff  |  12-20-2012  |  Movies

Surviving sobriety in Smashednew

A less naïve viewer (than myself) might readily see Smashed for what it is: a vehicle for an ambitious young talent to escape the straitjacket of typecasting. This is Mary Elizabeth Winstead's movie, and she's a charmer.
INDY Week  |  David Fellerath  |  12-05-2012  |  Reviews

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.
INDY Week  |  Glenn McDonald  |  11-21-2012  |  Reviews

Daniel Day-Lewis ends slavery in Lincolnnew

Steven Spielberg's Lincoln accomplishes the seemingly irreconcilable feat of humanizing Abraham Lincoln while preserving his mythology.
INDY Week  |  Neil Morris  |  11-15-2012  |  Reviews

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