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Film Review: Straw Dogsnew
Times have changed since the release of Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs in 1971.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
09-21-2011 |
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No Man's Landnew
In Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, there is an average of eight drug-related murders every day.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
09-21-2011 |
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In Chomsky We Trustnew
"The Kingdom of Survival" brings together several alternative American voices.
Style Weekly |
Wayne Melton |
09-20-2011 |
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Drive: Wheel of Fortunenew
Drive is such a sterling achievement for most of its running time — perhaps one of the year's best — that it's alarming when it crashes and burns during its final 15 minutes.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
09-19-2011 |
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Action Mediocrity: De Niro, Owen, and Statham Go Slumming
An unhappy marriage of brawny big-screen talent with a nonsensical script, and a newbie director, make for one very mediocre action movie.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
09-19-2011 |
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Remaking Peckinpah: Rod Lurie Falls for Mug’s Game
“When in Rome, [do as the Romans do.]” James Marsdan’s clueless screenwriter character David Sumner uses the age-old adage to rationalize how he should interact with snotty Southern hicks in his wife Amy’s hometown of Blackwater, Mississippi.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
09-19-2011 |
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Life, Above Allnew
A powerful performance by a teen actress lifts this morality tale above its station.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
09-16-2011 |
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Never Mind the Hype: Attack the Block Doesn’t Delivernew
Written and directed by Joe Cornish, who co-created the weirdo British sketch comedy series The Adam and Joe Show in the ’90s, Attack the Block desperately wants to be for sci-fi thrillers what the hilarious 2004 satire Shaun of the Dead was for zombie horror movies.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
09-15-2011 |
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Low-Budget Bellflower is an Instant Indie Classic That’ll Set You on Firenew
“I'd seen movies about breakups, but I'd never seen anyone try to make a movie about what it's really like to have your heart broken,” first-time director Evan Glodell told The Village Voice.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
09-15-2011 |
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The Future Charts Modern Anxietynew
The Future follows Sophie and Jason (July and Hamish Linklater, both of them sincere and focused), a couple in their mid-30s emerging from an agonizingly believable extended adolescence.
Tags: The Future
The Ryan Gosling-led Drive is in a Class by Itselfnew
This is Drive Calm. This is Drive Cool. This is Ryan Gosling as a soft-spoken, sensitive soul, a guy extremely proficient at driving fast cars but who doesn't seem to get much of a thrill out of it, and neither, it seems, does Drive the movie wish to turn you on.
Charleston City Paper |
MaryAnn Johanson |
09-14-2011 |
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Tags: Drive, Ryan Gosling
The Descendants and The Ides of Marchnew
George Clooney's arrival at the Toronto International Film Festival was a reminder that he's more than just a pretty face.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
09-14-2011 |
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John Sayles' Characters Push Amigo Forwardnew
Set in 1900, Amigo's main focus is on the amigo, Rafael (Joel Torre), head man of the San Isidro barrio, deprived of the young men who have gone to fight in the revolution led by Emilio Aguinaldo.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
09-14-2011 |
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Tags: Amigo, Amigo Movie
What You Want: Nicholas Winding Refn Burns Slow and Fast
Playing with a William Friedkin-like of patient intensity, atmospheric style, and shocks of violence Dutch director Nicolas Winding Refn creates his own 21st century dialectic of cinema.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
09-12-2011 |
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Aliens land in an English slum in Attack the Blocknew
In Attack the Block, English comedy writer/ performer and first-time filmmaker Joe Cornish trumps political shortcomings with brilliant, surprising filmmaking, turning a modest sci-fi comedy into the perfect example of what fun movies should be like.
