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Safety Not Guaranteed raises low-key and worthwhile questionsnew
Can someone who is very serious about something laughably eccentric be treated with respect? How far can a movie dissociate itself from its plot's reason for existing and remain honest?
Woody Allen's To Rome with Love explores that whole sad clown thingnew
Ruggero Leoncavallo's famous opera Pagliacci (or Clowns) is a perfect fit for Allen's themes, if not for his lifelong identity: This is the opera where that whole sad clown thing comes from.
A benign, cozy world in Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdomnew
Anderson makes us long to be in the shoes of these characters by sealing his universe into a well-haberdashed container of nostalgia.
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Spike Jonze's Her is dazzlingnew
Retro-futuristic romance with the most sincere of faces.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
