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Take This Waltz: A Dangerous Dancenew
Uncommon patience and devastating rawness
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
08-02-2012 |
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Art Truth: China Entertains Dissent More Than America
Alison Klayman’s biopic documentary is deceptive. It’s not so much about what the filmmaker perceives as an iconoclastic artist’s ability and willingness to stand up against a fascist regime.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
07-30-2012 |
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Good intentions can’t salvage Tyler’s Gift as cliché melodramanew
There's no denying the strength and courage local actor John Lambert and son Johnny must've summoned to star in the short film Tyler's Gift.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
07-29-2012 |
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'Beasts of the Southern Wild' is both highly personal and massive in scopenew
Vegan aspiring photographers beware: Film is actually made of once-living material—mashed-up bone, flattened, and rolled up in strips.
San Antonio Current |
Erin Gleeson |
07-29-2012 |
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'The Dark Knight Rises'new
Nolan's bat-finale reaches the top rung on the ladder
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-26-2012 |
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The Right Film At the Wrong Timenew
It's a shame that the movie may never be accepted on its own merits.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
07-25-2012 |
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Tags: Dark Knight Rises
In Theaters Now: The Dark Knight Risesnew
On Friday night, I anxiously peered through the movie theatre dim for a gun totting psychopath. I scanned the exits, though doubtless, I would’ve been powerless to protect myself or anyone around me from harm. Call it irrational paranoia or rational cautiousness, I feared that a copy cat or a conspirator in league with James Eagan Holmes would visit death upon the audience. We see movies to temporarily escape the realities of our lives yet, while we share the director’s vision, we are terribly vulnerable to acts of violent lunacy. As the trailers rolled by, I wondered how this hadn’t happened before and how long before it will happen again.
Random Lengths News |
Danny Simon |
07-23-2012 |
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Freakin’ Friedkin: The Legendary Filmmaker Goes Comically Black
William Friedkin's dark, funny, and sexy black comedy is a triumph. “Killer Joe” makes “Fargo” seem like a rom-com.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
07-23-2012 |
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U.S. Military Culture & Sexual Assaultnew
'The Invisible War,' about the U.S. military's culture of condoning sexual assaults, is powerful and heartbreaking.
Tucson Weekly |
Colin Boyd |
07-19-2012 |
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Tags: kirby dick, The Invisible War
Lewd subject matter aside, Hysteria is a charmernew
Here's a film that could easily have been tasteless, leering, and puerile, but instead Tanya Wexler's Hysteria is funny, charming, warm, smart, and probably the best romantic comedy since Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day back in 2008.
Charleston City Paper |
Ken Hanke |
07-18-2012 |
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Tags: Romantic Comedy, Hysteria
‘Amazing’ Spider-Man devolves to merely average in this unnecessary rebootnew
With the first three Spider-Man movies raking in almost $2.5 billion worldwide at the box office from 2002 to 2007, there was no way Marvel Studios and Columbia Pictures were going to allow the franchise to fade away just because their lead actor and director didn’t want to return for a fourth go-’round.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
07-16-2012 |
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Woody Allen’s Italian midsummer night's sex comedy finishes firstnew
Woody Allen, who once declared, “I am at two with nature,” is smitten with great cities. New York is his first and enduring love, but in recent years he has also flirted with London (Match Point), Barcelona (Vicki Cristina Barcelona), and Paris (Midnight in Paris).
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
07-16-2012 |
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Gross Wealth Takes a Hit: Lauren Greenfield Tracks the Demise of a One Percenter
There’s quiet satisfaction in watching the financial collapse of the Florida billionaire self-professedly “personally” responsible for George W. Bush’s “illegal” takeover of the White House in 2000.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
07-16-2012 |
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There are no heroes in The Dark Knight Risesnew
The Dark Knight Rises may be the darkest, the grimmest, the most depressing summer popcorn movie ever. It is not summery. It is not popcorny. There is no adventure here. There is no escapism. There is only grinding reality to be endured in the harsh mirror it holds up to the audience.
Charleston City Paper |
MaryAnn Johanson |
07-15-2012 |
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