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A Star in The East
Arriving in local theaters this week, The East is not only as good a thriller as you’ll find right now but also the latest...
You Lie!
It sounds like a dry business story. In the early 1990s, Mark Whitacre, a division president at agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland, told the...
Blogging “Black Swan” (Part 1)
I had a ton of thoughts about Black Swan that I couldn’t include in my review of the film. Now that it’s out on...
Film Shorts
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Drunkboat (R) Bob Meyer’s coming-of-age drama stars Jacob Zachar as a teenager who tries to buy a boat from a con man (John Goodman)...
Best Documentaries of 2015
You may have noticed that I didn’t include any documentaries when I ran my list of 2015’s best movies last week. I’m never sure...
Film Shorts // January 10-16, 2024
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All of Us Strangers (R) Based on Taichi Yamada’s novel, Andrew Haigh’s science-fiction romance is about a gay Englishman (Andrew Scott) who mysteriously meets...
Gripping
In The Believer, Ryan Gosling’s portrayal of a self-loathing Jewish neo-Nazi who plots to bomb his community’s synagogue, enchanted audiences at the 2001 Sundance...
Film Shorts
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The Great Gatsby (PG-13) Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!) adapts F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about a 1920s writer (Tobey Maguire) who witnesses the tragically doomed...
Moonrise Kingdom: Sam ♥ Suzy
All of Wes Anderson’s movies are children’s movies. That’s what I realized while watching his Moonrise Kingdom, a spellbinding piece of work that opens...
Nowhere Boy: It’s Real Love
It’s mesmerizing to watch Aaron Johnson in Nowhere Boy. The extraordinarily pretty 20-year-old has been performing on screen since his childhood, but the native...
