Film
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Movie Review: Godzilla
Godzilla redefines the blockbuster as art-house cinema
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Spotlight: Blue Ruin
Jeremy Saulneir’s thriller Blue Ruin focuses on a mysterious outsider who returns to his childhood home to plot an act of vengeance, a deed that...
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Movie Review: A So-So Spider-Man 2
What, exactly, was the point of rebooting the Spider-Man franchise with 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man? Arriving in theaters just five years after the incredibly lackluster...
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Movie Review: Captain America – The Winter Soldier is a stunner
Have you noticed how very boilerplate superhero movies have become? Everything is interchangeable — from the hero and his or her specific degree of angst,...
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Film: Particle Fever
We don't glamorize physics. Whether theoretical or experimental, there's very little recognition of the incredible, fascinating work that those dedicated to either side of the...
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Oscar's Glamorous Night
''It's not your regular old Oscar party,'' Michael Fowler says of Glamour, Glitter & Gold. ''It's The DC Center's Oscar party – but on hyper-drive.''...
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All About the Money
American Hustle is of and about bullshit. Director David O. Russell soaks in it, drenching his movie with scams so shrewd it's tough to tell...
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The Best and Worst Films of 2013
This was a strange, strange year for movies. Every big summer release fell short of expectations -- I'm looking at you Pacific Rim, Man of...
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Folk Zero
Like all of the best characters invented by Joel and Ethan Coen, Llewyn Davis is a loser. He's hugely talented, terribly haunted, and the persistent...
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Overblown
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is about an egomaniacal monster, hell-bent on hoarding his treasures above all else. He surrounds himself with a mountain...
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Family Misfortunes
There's a menace poisoning the modern Hollywood drama. It's wearing an unfamiliar face, but the symptoms are easily identified. The lazy use of narrative cliché....
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Hungering for More
The mood of a franchise film matters. Consider the effect it can have on character, story and purpose. What would Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy be...
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Survival Instinct
The American dream, more than whatever else, is a longing for health and wealth. We want to live and make good livings. So, naturally, the...
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Hope Floats
When you sit in a movie theater, you sit inside a contradiction. The theater creates a wall between your mind and body -- the lights...
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Falling for ''Gravity''
The heavens are silent. It's a matter of science. There's no air pressure in a vacuum, so in space, there's no sound. That's why we...
