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The Muppets keeps family entertainment realnew
The Muppets aren't just one-note characters. They're fully realized beings, perfectly able to convey emotions. Even monosyllabic drummer Animal is just a dude looking for some inner peace.
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Scorsese's Hugo celebrates the joy and art of moviemakingnew
The brilliance of Hugo is that director Martin Scorsese appropriates the en vogue 3-D technology of today's movies to preserve and venerate pioneers of the medium.
Tags: Martin Scorsese, Hugo
The Muppets Charms With Nostalgia, but Feels Far From Freshnew
After 12 years without a theatrical release, The Muppets is in many ways both a charming return to form and a surprising letdown.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
11-22-2011 |
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Oscar Bait: Silent Black-and-White Trumps 3D
Here's proof that a black-and-white silent film with a 4:3 aspect ratio can be more entertaining than a 3D anything, "The Artist" conjures a bygone era that reminds us why we love Hollywood.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
11-21-2011 |
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Freud, Jung, and Spielrein: Cronenberg Explores Madness Behind the Method of Modern Psychotherapy
Christopher Hampton's stage play "The Talking Cure" provides the cerebral basis for David Cronenberg to dive into the largely overlooked story of Sabina Spielrein and her influence on the fathers of modern psychoanalysis--Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
11-21-2011 |
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Melancholianew
Lars von Trier's great depression.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
11-21-2011 |
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Review: Love Crimenew
It may not be perfectly written and directed, but this French thriller (director Alain Corneau's final film) about a perfect crime is beautifully acted and worth a look.
Martha Marcy May Marlene is Escapism at its Most Unnervingnew
Check your pulse if you don’t feel a chill winding between your vertebra during a scene in Martha Marcy May Marlene where Academy Award-nominated actor John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone), playing cult leader Patrick, serenades a commune of vulnerable lost souls with “Marcy’s Song,” by the late folk musician Jackson C. Frank.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
11-17-2011 |
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Sizing up the 20th Century with the Cross-dressing Head of the FBInew
It's no secret these days that J. Edgar Hoover was a real bastard. But back in the day he was a paragon of American idealism and fortitude.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
11-17-2011 |
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The Skin I Live In (La Piel que Habito)new
"At age 50," wrote George Orwell, "every man has the face he deserves." But what if a man — or woman — of any age is forced to undergo plastic surgery?
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
11-17-2011 |
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Soul Survivor in Martha Marcy May Marlenenew
Elizabeth Olsen's performance throughout is somber and self-assured, a promising debut encouraged perhaps by her own efforts to escape the suffocating shadow—and cult of personality—of her older siblings.
Payne’s Fault Not Even George Clooney Can Work a Miracle
Death and dying play a big part in cinema's current zeitgeist. From apocalyptic films like "Melancholia" to cancer-themed comedies like "50/50" there is a pressing dialogue of facing up to the reality of certain death with some amount of courage and dignity.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
11-15-2011 |
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Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar is a Sympathetic Portrait of a Closeted Mannew
A fascinating portrait of an influential American, J. Edgar presents Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio) as a flawed but prescient figure whose public role building the FBI into an important institution is contrasted with a private life as a closeted gay man devoted to his right-hand man Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer), who became a devoted soulmate.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
11-10-2011 |
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Paranoid Visions of the Apocalypsenew
Fresh rain oozing with yellow oil, dead birds plummeting from the sky, and the sudden apparition of a tornado funnel on a sunshiny day — Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) is haunted by visions that point either to imminent disaster or else to incipient mental illness. "Is anyone seeing this?"
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
11-10-2011 |
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Tower Heist Gives Eddie Murphy a Comedy Vehicle that Doesn't Crash and Burnnew
Can anyone remember the last time comedian Eddie Murphy was actually funny? No, voicing an animated donkey with a hankering for waffles doesn't count.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
11-10-2011 |
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