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Furie: Oh, Ngô!
Martial-arts films have been a financial mainstay and a source of pride for the movie industries of China and Japan. More recently, South Korea,...
Narrative Voice
I can safely say that Stranger Than Fiction is stranger than your average movie.
The film isn’t odd because it’s about a character in...
Vice: What a Dick
I stopped making box-office predictions for movies long ago, when I realized I suck at them. However, I’m making a bold one for Vice:...
LSFF 2015 Report: Day 3
I got up early to listen to the festival’s keynote speech by David Edelstein, a critic who now works at New York magazine and...
Film Shorts
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Burlesque (PG-13) Christina Aguilera makes her film debut as a dancer who comes to Los Angeles and finds her way into a burlesque club...
The Best Movie Moments of 2015
I saw more than 300 new movies in 2015. That’s well ahead of my usual quota for a 12-month period, by something like 10...
Film Shorts
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Before I Fall (PG-13) Zoey Deutch is better than this teen flick that she’s headlining. She portrays a popular girl in high school who...
Indie Film Roundup
Every once in awhile, rather than telling you about the big films that everyone else is covering, we like to focus on movies that...
Infinite Jest
It's high time that America discovered Steve Coogan. The 43-year-old needle-nosed native of Manchester, England, is hugely popular in the U.K. as the star...
The Beaver: Talk to the Hand
Sometimes when a star misbehaves in public, a perfectly blameless movie takes the hit. Such appears to be the case with The Beaver, an...
