Film
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Review: The Innkeepers
The Innkeepers, like all of Ti West's horror, is an exercise in slow-burning scares. He short-circuits nerves with anxiety, using sober creeps to ratchet...
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Fly Guys
There's not much depth to Chronicle. In spite of a unique take on the traditional superhero origin story, rookie director Josh Trank and screenwriter Max...
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Man Power
Albert Nobbs should work. Hell, it already did work on stage thirty years ago when Glenn Close raked in off-Broadway acclaim and first aspired...
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Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
I can't give Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close a chance. It's bullheaded and downright selfish of me, but I just can't do it. Seconds into...
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Review: Corman's World
If Jack Nicholson and Martin Scorsese trash a director's films, saying that ''nobody was trying to make them good,'' or that ''taste was out of...
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From Short to Feature
''I set out to write well-rounded characters,'' says Dee Rees of her filmmaking debut, Pariah. ''Each one has their own wants, their own needs, their...
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Coming Out
In the wrong hands, Pariah could have easily settled as the sum of its parts. Its premise -- a poignant look at a black teenage...
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The Best and Worst Movies of 2011
The past year has been fantastic for moviegoers. More so than any other year in recent memory, the best films of 2011 are incredibly different...
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Tattoo Paradise
I might as well admit it -- I've never read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. When I sat down to watch director David Fincher's...
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Nostalgic Adventure
Of those heading to the movies this holiday season, plenty should find their way to The Adventures of Tintin. After all, the days off and...
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Prickly Protagonist
Can a great movie be about a terrible person? The tenet of traditional screenwriting is that audiences need a relatable protagonist. Even jerks have...
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Love Shots
It's tough to say what director Tomer Heymann wanted out of I Shot My Love, an hour-long documentary about identity, family and desire. He opens...
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Over Sexed
In Shame, everything starts with a look. All sorts of possibilities exist in each one -- this time, maybe they'll do it pinned up against...
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Puppet Masters
Nostalgia's a funny thing. It nags us when we least expect it, triggered by a smell or a phrase or some odd sensation that's burrowed...
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Midlife Aloha
Alexander Payne had made quite a name for himself on the backs of middle-aged discontents. In Election, it was the stagnant, scheming sort. In Sideways,...
