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Review: Margin Callnew

A well-crafted and -acted disaster movie, 'Margin Call' is like 'Titanic,' except the financial system is the boat and the characters are the crew AND the iceberg.
Daniel Maldonado’s textbook zombie flick passable for a first featurenew

If George A. Romero only knew how hard it was for zombie prey to run through dry South Texas monte, he might’ve moved some of his classic horror films away from rural Pennsylvania and into the Lone Star State for a little extra bloodshed. You can’t sprint very fast when you’ve got mesquite thorns caught in your boot.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
10-17-2011 |
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Footloose remake gives us something old and something newnew

Director Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan) places his affinity for Southern settings front and center by transplanting the original film's Utah setting to a burg in Georgia.
Trespass Holds Audiences for Ransomnew

Nicolas Cage doesn't want his movies playing in his house. We could only be so lucky.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
10-12-2011 |
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Tags: Trespass
Mozart's Sister acknowledges complexity even as it invents factsnew

Filmmaker Rene Feret doesn't massage what we know about how Nannerl's talents were allowed to wither, purely on account of her gender, in order to create a comforting narrative.
Film Review: The Ides of Marchnew

As a writer-director, George Clooney pushes all the hot buttons. In Good Night, and Good Luck it was the media; in The Ides of March it’s politics.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
10-12-2011 |
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Film Review: Sennanew

You might already be burned out on movies about automobiles, what with Transformers 3, Cars 2, and Drive, among others. Forget all those. There is only one truly essential movie this year about the relationship between man and machine, and that's Senna.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Morrison |
10-12-2011 |
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Film review: Real Steelnew

Its metaphors are shallow and its plot predictable, but Real Steel is still fun in a fighting-robots-movie kinda way.
San Antonio Current |
Ben Gifford |
10-12-2011 |
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Dying Famous, to Tell the Story of Living in Obscuritynew

The documentary follows the band of the same name's turbulent road to performing at the hallowed rock 'n' roll stomping ground, The Whiskey a Go Go.
Boise Weekly |
Staff |
10-12-2011 |
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Tags: Dying Famous, Michael D. Gough
Dying Famous: Behind the Storynew

“It’s really about individuals following their dreams"
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
10-12-2011 |
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Tags: Dying Famous, Michael Gough
Robbing the Elite: Joel Schumacher Presses the Wrong Buttons

Joel Schumacher continues on his career-long habit of hits and misses with a home invasion suspense thriller that signifies yet another dip.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
10-10-2011 |
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Welcome to the Machinenew

A game Hugh Jackman aids this prepubescent bot royale.
Orlando Weekly |
William Goss |
10-06-2011 |
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Dead Like Tweenew

Gus Van Sant's take on Harold and Maude reeks of decay.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
10-06-2011 |
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Living in the Material World, Scorsese’s Tribute to George Harrisonnew

When you tick off George Harrison’s achievements, those successes seem impressive enough
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
10-06-2011 |
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