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Legend (R) Tom Hardy portrays Reggie and Ronald Kray, the identical twins who built a crime empire in London’s East End in the 1960s....
‘Dear President Obama’ Screening Thursday Night
The natural gas drillers who used bullying and deceptive tactics to roll over urban residents in a quest for greed are getting their karmic...
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Ken Scott’s French-language comedy Starbuck shattered box office records in its native Canada last year, so it seemed inevitable that an English-language remake from...
Netflix’s Ten Percent Solution
Earlier this week Netflix awarded $1 million to a team of researchers calling themselves BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos. At issue is Cinematch, the part of...
Disobedience: Rachel, Rachel
You probably know the name Sebastián Lelio from his Oscar win for Best Foreign Film this past spring for A Fantastic Woman. Now, his...
Less Than Jake
The critical narrative has now hardened around Jake Gyllenhaal. It goes like this: After a misguided period when the actor tried to be an...
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Blue Jasmine (R) One of the greatest performances of Cate Blanchett’s career enlivens Woody Allen’s weak rewriting of A Streetcar Named Desire. Blanchett plays...
Da Doo Run Run Ron
A hero complex is an incredibly dangerous quality in someone with no heroic qualities. That's the lesson of the Bush administration, and it's also...
Ryan’s Hope
Ryan Bijan’s Erik: Portrait of a Living Corpse is a horror film made in Fort Worth, but it looks much different from other such...
Considering Bruce Willis
I didn’t have space to get into this in my review of Looper, but I continue to be amazed by the career of Bruce...