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Borat's mastermind takes a more conventional route in 'The Dictator'new
It was only a matter of time before Sacha Baron Cohen would have to retire his style of guerrilla filmmaking. After the success of 2006's Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and the relative non-success of 2009's Brüno, sneaking up on people with a camera and smacking his genitals on their foreheads wouldn't be as easy as it once was for Cohen, especially now that a sizable portion of the population knows his face, among other parts of his body.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
05-16-2012 |
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Tags: Larry Charles, The Dictator
Sacha Baron Cohen spoofs post-9/11 U.S. in The Dictatornew
The most immediate criticism of The Dictator is also its biggest strength: It is extremely offensive.
Tags: Sacha Baron Cohen, The Dictator
An Algerian immigrant teaches Canadian children in Monsieur Lazharnew
The film is a tale of healing—for the children, who despite their material comfort are suffering from emotional neglect, and for Lazhar, who is applying for political asylum after suffering a terrible trauma in Algeria.
Tags: Monsieur Lazhar
Talking Dictatorship: Sacha Baron Cohen Takes Out America’s Trash
Sacha Baron Cohen may just be the most gifted satirist of our time. His take-no-prisoners wit and equally uncompromising approach to raking American hypocrisies over the coals is unparalleled.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
05-14-2012 |
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In Theaters Now #1: The Five-Year Engagementnew
I got lucky the other night, well kinda. Romantic comedies generally follow a predictable course; there is the meeting of an unlikely couple, the “getting-to-know-you” montage, the cumming together, the falling apart, and the big happy double reach around ending. Like crack cocaine or chocolate, rom-coms are designed to momentarily distract us from our comparably imperfect lives in which we don’t look, talk or fuck like the movie stars on the screen. Ironically, the distraction offered by rom-coms fuels a sense of dissatisfaction so we need more distraction and then poof, we’re stuck in a rom-com downward death spin cycle which retards the audience just a bit more with every incarnation.
Random Lengths News |
Danny Simon |
05-13-2012 |
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Despite likeable lead, 'Girl in Progress' retreats into formulaic coming-of-age flopnew
t's a term every high school freshman English class has covered since teachers started passing out copies of The Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
05-11-2012 |
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Steve Jobs lives on in The Lost Interviewnew
Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview is an hour-long look into the charismatic and plain-spoken nature of one of this generation's most enduring figures.
Charleston City Paper |
Ryan Overhiser |
05-11-2012 |
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'Damsels in Distress' has its heart (and ear) in the right placenew
Fourteen years after his last film, The Last Days of Disco, writer-director Whit Stillman reclaims his status as perennial contender to the Tarantino of the Upper Classes title. Sure, Damsels in Distress has no violence and very little sex...
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
05-11-2012 |
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Avengers: Too Many Heroes, Too Little Plotnew
It's too bad when the trailer for another movie is the best part of the two hours.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
05-10-2012 |
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Tags: The Avengers
Satisfying geekdom's love affair with 'The Avengers'new
It happens in the second half of the highly-anticipated Marvel comic-book movie The Avengers, a precisely planned superhero assemblage that has been culminating since 2008's release of both Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk reboot
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
05-08-2012 |
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Why the foot-furious musical Singin' in the Rain still demands attentionnew
In 1927, The Jazz Singer burst into the Hollywood silent-film scene, breaking the sound barrier and trumpeting doom and gloom for mute motion pictures everywhere.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
05-03-2012 |
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Whit Stillman returns with Damsels in Distressnew
When Stillman's first film appeared in 1990, he was hailed as New York's WASP answer to Woody Allen. His movies reflect a conservative New England sensibility, of private schools, good manners, and unfashionable social and political opinions argued eloquently and amusingly.
Redressing the Avengers Joss Whedon Throws a Fit
Sloppy in its construction, “Marvel’s The Avengers” has one thing going for it — humor.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
04-30-2012 |
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The Kid With a Bike is a moving tale from the great Dardenne brothersnew
While I'm grateful for any opportunity to see a film by les Dardennes, this latest makes me wonder if they've become risk-averse.
A father and son duke it out in 'Footnote'new
Two men sit side-by-side in the front row of a throng of people, listening to the introduction of one Professor Shkolnik, who is being accepted into the National Israel Academy of Sciences.
San Antonio Current |
Erin Gleeson |
04-26-2012 |
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