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Death Match
The first thing worth mentioning about The Hunger Games is the silence. Few characters say much, and those that do don't repeat themselves. Their thoughts,...
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Fixer Uppers
Jeff, Who Lives At Home is a funny sort of movie. Not funny ha-ha, as its trailer so deceptively suggests, but funny like a warm...
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Mars Barred
Based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs story that debuted in a pulp magazine 100 years ago, John Carter is a very expensive movie. If there's...
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Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Film doesn't get much grimmer than We Need To Talk About Kevin. It's an utterly bleak, astonishing piece of work that demands your attention just...
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Hooray for Hollywood
Why watch the Oscars alone at home when you could do it with hundreds of your best gay friends? That at least is part of...
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Oscar Fix
Well, it's Oscar time again! Somewhere out West, at this very moment, starlets are shrieking at their personal assistants about ill-fitting Dior, Billy Crystal is...
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Vanity Affair
One thing is clear in W.E., Madonna's mess of an attempt to pin ''auteur'' onto one of the few unoccupied spaces of her many-sided identity....
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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...
