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With doomsday fast approaching, here are the films you can take refuge in this yearnew
According to analysts from BTIG, a strategic research company that predicts trends including those in the entertainment industry, movie attendance is headed for a significant decline in 2012.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
01-12-2012 |
Movies
Roman Polanski's 'Carnage' more torture chamber than chamber piecenew
With a title like Carnage, even if the weapon of choice is words one might expect to see some type of intellectual bloodbath.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
The Iron Ladynew
Tory termagant meets thrilling thespian.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
'The Finder' delivers hero juicenew
The Finder (7pm Thursday, Fox)
If I had a dime for every pilot that failed at being simultaneously exciting, funny, sexy, and poignant, I’d be able to finance my own series.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
01-11-2012 |
TV
Critic's Diss: 'The Iron Lady'new
Call it Oscar grubbing if you want, but it's not Meryl Streep's fault that she's so damn talented. Well, technically, it kind of is.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
Characters can't leave the room in Polanski's latest, Carnagenew
For God's sake, why don't the Cowans just leave? The answer lies in the fact that, for his whole career, Roman Polanski has been interested in domestic interiors and how they take hold of his characters.
Tags: Roman Polanski, Carnage
Carnage is Roman Polanski’s real-time brawl between flawed parentsnew
Roman Polanski's film is the real-time encounter between two sets of parents — the bordering-on-mediocrity Penelope (Jodie Foster) and Michael (John C. Reilly) Longstreet and the obviously wealthier Nancy (Kate Winslet) and Alan (Christoph Waltz) Cowan — following a scuffle between their sons.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Roman Polanski, Carnage (2011)
Meryl Streep’s Iron Lady is fiction laced with truthnew
British director Phyllida Lloyd, who worked with Streep on Mamma Mia!, takes an interesting, occasionally misguided track in their new collaboration, documenting Thatcher's life in reverse.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
The Iron Lady is Weaknew
"Is there anything you're crap at, Meryl?"
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Margaret Thatcher, The Iron Lady
All Talk: Lynne Ramsay Can’t Commit to Horror
Forced, stultifying, and artificial beyond belief, "We Need to Talk About Kevin" is Scottish director Lynne Ramsay's off-key treatment of Lionel Shriver's novel.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
01-09-2012 |
Reviews
Nuri Bilge Ceylon Investigates The Impurity of Human Motivation
Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylon continues his minimalist yet universal exploration of society (in the meta sense of the word) with a fascinating police procedural that values story over plot and character over prejudice.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
01-09-2012 |
Reviews
Maybe Babiesnew
A look at the less obvious films we just might love this coming year.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
01-06-2012 |
Reviews
New adaptation of John le Carré espionage novel captivates as it confusesnew
Say the words "British spy" and most moviegoers would probably picture any one of the James Bond incarnations over the last 50 years performing death-defying stunts far above the ground.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
01-04-2012 |
Reviews
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a solid revival of Cold War-era le Carré novelnew
This well-acted, well-made movie keeps the us-against-them theatrics in the background in favor of a compelling character study of men fighting to stay relevant in a world where they can easily be replaced.
Even in a slow year for memorable cinema, there were some standouts in 2011new
While it hasn’t necessarily been a stellar year in film (watching Adam Sandler, Martin Lawrence, and Tyler Perry in drag was enough to sideline the most intrepid moviegoer), there have been some diamonds in the rough.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
01-02-2012 |
Movies
