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Modern Prematurity Seth Rogan takes his Centrum Silver in Guilt Trip
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December 20, 2012
Once comic actors reach a particular career stage, they often choose one of two paths: A) They stop being funny and start being all Hallmark... More>>
On His Majesty’s Secret Service In Hyde Park on Hudson, it’s patriotic to pleasure a president.
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December 20, 2012
It's dispiriting that a film about the romantic life of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who cultivated a small coterie of mistresses, should exhibit so... More>>
Slouching Toward Erebor The Hobbit gets neither there nor back again.
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December 13, 2012
Welcome back to Middle-Earth. It has been nearly a decade since writer-director Peter Jackson last set foot on J.R.R. Tolkien's hallowed ground,... More>>
David Chase Achieves His Rock-'n'-Roll Dreams
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December 13, 2012
David Chase looks like he wants to whack somebody. Not just anybody, mind you, but the middle-age guy with the bad dye job a few tables away from... More>>
Hitchcock Shouldn't the making of Psycho be more interesting?
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December 06, 2012
Early in Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock (played by Sir Anthony Hopkins with a sack of fat connecting chin to neck) walks the red carpet at the... More>>
The Best Action Director Working Today John Hyams is dedicated to the abstract and the ass-kicking.
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November 29, 2012
If David Cronenberg and Luc Besson had a mutant baby, it still wouldn't be able to make a movie quite as hypnotically badass as Universal... More>>
The Way We Die Now Movie violence has never been better — or more reckless.
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November 29, 2012
Part of the renascent body-count action industry, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning's mere existence might shock many Americans. "There are... More>>
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning To see the fights, Universal Soldier 4 demands you suffer.
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November 29, 2012
Depending on whether you count direct-to-video releases, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning is either the fourth or sixth film in the low-rent,... More>>
Killing Them Softly Killing Them Softly argues crime is just business.
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November 29, 2012
An adaptation of George V. Higgins's 1974 novel Cogan's Trade, Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly anatomizes a self-policing underground... More>>
Path of Khan Life of Pi star Irrfan Khan forges a cross-cultural career.
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November 22, 2012
"I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it," Irrfan Khan says. "And I pray to God that I... More>>
Red Dawn North Korea (and audiences) go home unhappy.
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November 22, 2012
America has had its national traumas — its Antietams and Pearl Harbors and 9/11s — but what we haven't faced since the Battle of New... More>>
Life of Pi Life of Pi is the story of how important Life of Pi is.
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November 22, 2012
A stacked-deck theological inquiry filtered through a Titanic-by-way-of–Slumdog Millionaire narrative, Life of Pi manages occasional... More>>
Lincoln: A Tall, Tall Film Daniel Day-Lewis and Steven Spielberg ably fill the hat.
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November 15, 2012
There's an unfun tendency in American life to fictionalize our national heroes as rigid statue-people who only speak as though they are... More>>
Death of Cinema A short history of an art form's long passing.
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November 15, 2012
That the American cinema is deader than Dillinger is a fact no right-thinking observer unwilling to be laughed out of the room would even think... More>>
Good Spielberg's Bad Moments What should we make of radiant Lincoln and blubbering Private Ryan?
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November 15, 2012
The first few minutes of Lincoln play out like a parody of the expectations of Steven Spielberg's detractors. The Great Emancipator rests like a... More>>
Mostly Cloudy Looking for David O. Russell in Silver Linings Playbook.
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November 15, 2012
Silver Linings Playbook, which stars Bradley Cooper as a manic-depressive man-child attempting to get his life back together after a breakdown,... More>>
Puppets and Starlets Sean Baker's latest film goes inside the porn biz.
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November 08, 2012
Sean Baker's Starlet stars Dree Hemingway (Ernest's great-granddaughter) as Jane, a 21-year-old "girl next door" porn performer whose off-hours... More>>
James Bond's License to Feel Skyfall is basically Downton Abby with cyber crime and shower sex.
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November 08, 2012
If Hollywood's rut du jour is the origin story as bid for franchise immortality, you can't say that Skyfall — the 23rd "official" James... More>>
James Bond, Out of Time Fifty years in, the spy is ever less relevant - and still beloved. Why?
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November 08, 2012
Attention, Eon Productions, Daniel Craig, and Heineken: James Bond is not a beer drinker!
Sure, I know. Getting all worked up about the new... More>>
Flight
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November 01, 2012
The yammering about "Oscar gold" and Denzel Washington's potential three-peat will soon reach a deafening pitch, but such noise can only... More>>
The Bay Barry Levinson's The Bay aspires to YouTube.
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November 01, 2012
Found-footage eco-horror cheapie The Bay — in which a previously harmless waterborne parasite mutates into an unstoppable... More>>
Cloud Atlas Your past lives probably didn't love Cloud Atlas, either.
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October 25, 2012
The trailer for Cloud Atlas, the gargantuan new movie of David Mitchell's 2004 novel that took two Wachowski siblings and Tom Tykwer to adapt,... More>>
Fun Size The teen comedy that's not bad for you.
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October 25, 2012
Gossip Girl and The O.C., the two teen TV shows created in the past decade by 36-year-old Josh Schwartz, are sly bait and switches. Both are... More>>
Starship Wachowski The Cloud Atlas team dares you to leave your pod.
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October 25, 2012
It's a Sunday afternoon in New York, and Tom Tykwer and the filmmakers formerly known as the Wachowski Brothers are talking about Zardoz, that... More>>
Wachowski Overload Watching All of the Wachowskis' Movies for the Sake of Watching All of the Wachowskis' Movies
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October 25, 2012
At around the four-minute mark of my first viewing of the Cloud Atlas trailer, as the M83 track swelled to its bursting point and a hoverbike... More>>
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