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The Place Beyond the Pines

The year's first stab at a masterpiece.

By Scott Foundas
Apr 10, 2013

The Place Beyond the Pines opens with a close-up of Ryan Gosling's chiseled abdomen — surely one of the more salable quantities in movies today — and heavy breathing on the soundtrack (or was that just the person next to me in the screening room?) Then in a single, five-minute...
Heaven's Gate Revisited

Michael Cimino revisits his notorious flop Heaven's Gate, which maybe was a masterpiece all along.

By Scott Foundas
Mar 20, 2013

"This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." So goes the adage from John Ford's 1962 classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and so it has gone for Heaven's Gate, the class-war Western written and directed by one of Ford's truest disciples among contemporary...
Bronx Bombers: Gimme the Loot

Adam Leon's stellar first film - and TV show - toasts the tag artist.

By Scott Foundas
Mar 20, 2013

For a movie as much in love with New York's outer-borough street life as Adam Leon's Gimme the Loot, it will not do just to talk about the film. That's what Leon insists, and so I find myself heading north with Leon on FDR Drive on an overcast Friday afternoon,...
Spring Breakers: Girls Gone Godard

A thrilling corruption of the Disney princess set.

By Scott Foundas
Mar 20, 2013

"All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun" goes Jean-Luc Godard's quip. Add to that a few more girls and their bikinis and you have the rough formula for Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers, which looks like the most expensive Girls Gone Wild video ever made...
Oz the Great and Powerful

This Oz is neither great nor powerful.

By Scott Foundas
Mar 6, 2013

It's a bad omen when, early on in Oz the Great and Powerful, we learn that the full given name of its wizard is Oscar, also the ceremony that star James Franco once presided over as calamitously as he does this sagging Disney tentpole, a gargantuan attempt to turn L...

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