‘The Grand Budapest Hotel with Ralph Fiennes: Wes Anderson’s most memorable character. ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’: Wes Anderson thrillingly expands his ‘thematic and visual palettes’ The mid-career winning streak of…
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The Lunchbox with Nimrat Kaur. The Lunchbox movie: ‘Exceptional film’ that deserved an Oscar nomination The Lunchbox / Dabba was not the Film Federation of India’s submission to the 2014…
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Robocop 2014 movie with Joel Kinnaman and Abbie Cornish. ‘Robocop’ 2014 review: ‘More interesting ideas than it can properly address’ You’ll have to excuse older moviegoers if they feel an…
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit with Chris Pine. ‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’ review: Kenneth Branagh thriller ‘plays everything too close to the middle’ It’s been 12 years since CIA analyst Jack Ryan…
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‘Ender’s Game’ movie: Sci-fier displays ‘steel-grey self-seriousness,’ but fails to explore ‘disturbing brutality’ at its core Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi novel Ender’s Game was published in 1985, and in the…
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Captain Phillips movie with Mahat M. Ali, Tom Hanks, and Faysal Ahmed. ‘Captain Phillips’ movie: ‘Incomplete’ and ‘less than completely satisfying’ In Paul Greengrass’ thriller starring Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips, the…
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The Fifth Estate with Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange and Daniel Brühl as Daniel Domscheit-Berg. ‘The Fifth Estate’ movie review: ‘Tasty’ but ‘opaque’ version of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Late in…
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‘Elysium’ with Matt Damon. ‘Elysium’ 2013 movie review: Lateral move for ‘District 9′ director Neill Blomkamp If Elysium were South African director Neill Blomkamp’s debut feature film, it would have…
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Blue Jasmine with Cate Blanchett. Blue Jasmine movie review: Woody Allen is pissed Years ago, the venerable and prolific writer-director and comedian Woody Allen was quick to remind people that…
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Only God Forgives: Ryan Gosling stars in Nicolas Winding Refn’s “darkest” film. ‘Only God Forgives’: Ryan Gosling stars in Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘darkest and most oblique’ film In Nicolas Winding…
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Armie Hammer as The Lone Ranger, Johnny Depp as Tonto. The Lone Ranger Movie Review: Pirates of the Caribbean quasi-sequel in Western garb In highfalutin’ acting circles, it’s said that…
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Un Flic with Alain Delon. Un Flic: Jean-Pierre Melville’s ‘late noir classic’ Jean-Pierre Melville’s last film, Un Flic / A Cop (1972), is a late noir classic that features all…
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World War Z with Brad Pitt. ‘World War Z’ review: ‘Grandest zombie enterprise ever’ lacks dramatic cohesion – but zombies come to the film’s rescue If there’s one thing harder…
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The Canadian with Thomas Meighan. ‘The Canadian’: Thomas Meighan faces adversities in The Land of Promise Thomas Meighan is The Star of William Beaudine’s The Canadian (1926), which screened at…
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Antarctic exploration with Sir Ernest Shackleton. Antarctic exploration ‘epic’: ‘South’ It was surprising to see the large crowd waiting to get into the 2012 San Francisco Silent Film Festival screening…
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‘The East’ movie with Brit Marling. ‘The East’ movie: Thriller marred by unbridled earnestness The East is a didactic polemic couched in a mediocre thriller that takes itself far too…
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The Hangover 3 with Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, and Ed Helms. ‘The Hangover 3’ review: ‘Unnecessary sequel’ that’s ‘sporadically and barely’ amusing There was a time, and this time now seems…
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The Great Gatsby 2013 with Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby. The Great Gatsby 2013: Solid Leonardo DiCaprio; ‘small, sad truths’ lost in the glitz Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby is…
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Sugar Mama sex tourism depicted in Ulrich Seidl’s ‘remarkable’ Paradise: Love (image: Margarete Tiesel, Peter Kazungu in Paradise: Love) Sugar Mama sex tourism is the subject of Paradise: Love /…
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Mud movie with Matthew McConaughey. Nothing ordinary about Jeff Nichols’ ‘Mud’ movie Ostensibly, writer-director Jeff Nichols’ Mud is about the titular character, played by Matthew McConaughey, who’s on the run from…
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Antiviral with Caleb Landry Jones. Antiviral: Brandon Cronenberg’s ‘gutsy, notable debut’ tackles celebrity worship gone amok There will come a day, and a blessed day it will be, when we…
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Robert Greenwald War on Whistleblowers review: ‘Secrecy, not transparency,’ is political leaders’ best friend - and Lady Justice’s worst enemy If you want another example of how the lofty intentions…
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Stoker movie with Matthew Goode: Creepily alluring performance. ‘Stoker’ movie: Creepy Matthew Goode in Park Chan-wook’s Flawed English-language feature debut The title Stoker, left to stand alone for Korean director…
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Like Someone in Love: Abbas Kiarostami drama features Rin Takanashi. Like Someone in Love: Abbas Kiarostami film is ‘lovely, intriguing, and stylish’ At age 73, Iranian-born director Abbas Kiarostami is…
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Featuring a fantastic supporting cast (Mia Farrow, Donna Murphy and others), Todd Solondz’s deadpan tragicomedy Dark Horse depicts a jerk’s life.
Inside Llewyn Davis review: Oscar Isaac Is last failed folk singer in Joel and Ethan Coen classy music drama. Carey Mulligan and Justin Timberlake costar.
Una Noche movie with Anailín de la Rúa de la Torre, Javier Núñez Florián, and Dariel Arrechaga as Cuban refugees. Una Noche: Lucy Mulloy debut feature presented with ‘urgent, rough-hewn…
Pacific Rim Jaeger Pacific Rim review: Dumb movie made by smart director As summer tentpole films become increasingly reliant on the international box office to earn back their enormous costs,…
Henry Cavill in ‘Man of Steel.’ Man of Steel review: Zack Snyder’s sensory-bludgeoning Superman movie lacks humor, charm, wonder Two hundred and twenty-five million dollars buys a lot when you’re…
Call Me Kuchu with Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato. ‘Call Me Kuchu’: The universality of anti-gay hate in Uganda It’s impossible to watch Call Me Kuchu, Katherine Fairfax Wright…
‘Iron Man 3’ with Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow. ‘Iron Man 3’: ‘A worthy addition to Marvel’s movie library’ compromised by ‘clever, stealth ways’ to appease the Chinese market…
To the Wonder with Rachel McAdams and Ben Affleck. ‘To the Wonder’: Terrence Malick movie a lyrical but redundant poem Writer and director Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder is built…