This year's Oscar shorts, in four programs
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January 30, 2013
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One Day is a Long Timenew
As the film checks on its characters each June 15 for 20 years, the date appears in dainty cursive font that floats, blows away and, at one point, pops up in a toaster. It's typical of the twee tone that undercuts the story's potential.
Kristen Wiig gets Apatow-ed in Bridesmaidsnew
If nothing else, Bridesmaids rebuts the criticism that Judd Apatow's films are nothing but wish-fulfillment scenarios for schlubby guys; in this one, whininess and low self-esteem are definitely gender-neutral.
Angela Davis-Gardner Talks About Her New Novel, 'Butterfly's Child'new
Puccini's classic opera Madame Butterfly ends with the title character's love agreeing to raise their child with his American wife. Raleigh resident Davis-Gardner's fourth novel asks, "What happened next?"
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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.
