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The Best Films That the Oscars IgnoredThis evening is the annual Academy Awards telethon for Harvey Weinstein, and the... |
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The Dawn of Sunset BoulevardBilly Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, with Gloria Swanson as a silent-screen legend plotting... |
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David O. Russell’s Comeback From CrazytownFew disagree with the line from the old Jimmy Buffett song that “If we couldn’t laugh,... |
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A Wilderness of MirrorsKathryn Bigelow, director of the Kill Osama thriller Zero Dark Thirty (which goes into... |
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The Unbearable Dullness of Judd ApatowThis Is 40 is one of those rare films that is so unforgivingly awful, it’s worth... |
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Tarantino ExplainedQuentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is, among much else during its leisurely... |
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Loathing Lindsay LohanOne of my minor irritants is seeing weak people intentionally set up to fail. It... |
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Anna Karenina: Sympathy for the CuckoldJoe Wright first directed Keira Knightley in a decent remake of Pride and... |
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Lincoln: A Tall Man in a Small FilmWith his unimpeachable performance in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (which opens... |
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Post-ApocalyptoAmong literary critics, a controversy has been raging tepidly over what purpose... |
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The Scoop on LooperRian Johnson’s critically acclaimed Looper, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce... |
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The Old AbnormalIn 1966, Bruce Lee threw himself (literally) into the role of Kato, the Green... |
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A Masterful Acting ClinicThe Master, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix in a period piece very... |
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How Robots Push Our ButtonsRobot & Frank is a clever little sci-fi dramedy about a semi-senile old coot whose... |