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To the End of Hawaii with George Clooney in The Descendantsnew
Director Alexander Payne—who has married and divorced since Paul Giamatti sipped wine in his last film, Sideways—now presents a character who enjoys redemption only once his wife is brain-dead and on a ventilator.
Depression, destruction, and selfishness play out in Melancholianew
In the first half of Melancholia, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) slowly but surely sabotages her own wedding reception, and you can't really blame her, because there is no one there who doesn't demand something from her or from the occasion.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
12-07-2011 |
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Tags: Melancholia
Melancholianew
Melancholia opens with a series of dramatically lit, startling dream-like images: falling birds rain during the day, a collapsing horse falls painfully slow in the dark. Wrapped in a wedding dress, Kirsten Dunst floats down a stream like a waking Ophelia.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-07-2011 |
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To the end of the world with Lars von Trier in Melancholianew
Melancholia is a lingering, thorny, beautiful experience that makes our doomed planet and our fickle lives richer for the tiny amount of time we're here to appreciate them.
A First Class Bitchnew
Young Adult is pitch (perfect) black comedy.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
12-07-2011 |
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Tags: Young Adult, Diablo Cody
Cold War Spies: John le Carré's Novel Goes Full Tilt
International espionage during the Cold War period of the early ‘70s, as practiced by British MI6 double agents, is one very icy dish.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
12-05-2011 |
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Werner Herzog's Riveting Death Row Docnew
Herzog's fervent fans surely rushed out to see Into the Abyss over the weekend, but for those who need coaxing, let me urge you to do the same in the limited time left for this title.
Pedro Almodovar's bizarre but bloodless The Skin I Live Innew
The Skin I Live In is a hyper-realized illustration of Almodovar's fondness for audience manipulation.
My Week with Marilyn's intellectual slovenlinessnew
Director Simon Curtis' film is not effective or well-made enough to make any lasting impressions, but that doesn't mean its sentiments are any less inartistic or offensive.
Michelle Williams leaves everyone else in her dust as Marilyn Monroenew
Michelle Williams deserves her vehicle; she's earned the right to put herself in the sweaty hands of cigar-chomping moguls with the power to bully esteemed actors and directors into hopping aboard the Oscar Express, wobbly wheels though it may be resting on.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
12-03-2011 |
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Tags: My Week With Marilyn, Simon Curtis
Scorsese's first children's adventure comes from his own inner childnew
Trains and the cinema go together like horses and cave paintings. As soon as humans were able to show motion, we chose to show trains. And from our first interaction with locomotives on celluloid — the Lumiére Brothers' Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat in 1895, which, perhaps apocryphally, made audiences jump out of their seats in fear — until this moment, with Martin Scorsese's 3-D fantasy Hugo, there have been dreamers and keepers of the dream.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
12-02-2011 |
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Film Review: Like Crazynew
Anton Yelchin (Star Trek) and newcomer Felicity Jones play Jacob and Anna, two attractive college kids who meet during class and immediately fall head over heels in love.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
11-28-2011 |
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Anna and Jacob love each other Like Crazy, despite visa issuesnew
Not since Green Card has so much romance been yoked to the ox cart of bureaucracy.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
11-28-2011 |
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Tags: Like Crazy
Not that Steve McQueen: Sex-Addict Movie is a Half Effort
Director Steve McQueen makes half movies. The sophomore follow up to his over-praised 2008 debut film "Hunger," about Irish republican leader Bobby Sands's prison bound hunger strike, reveals a coincidental lack of narrative rigor disguised in an unsatisfying minimalist approach.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
11-28-2011 |
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Fiennes Does Shakespeare: Revenge Takes its Bloody Toll
Confucius: "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
11-28-2011 |
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