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Amira-Sam

Film Shorts

OPENING Amira & Sam (NR) Martin Starr stars in this comedy as a U.S. Army veteran who falls in love with an Iraqi woman (Dina...
CAKE

Pain Cake

You may have heard the whispers about a movie called Cake that stars Jennifer Aniston and played at the Toronto Film Festival. The lead...
A Most Violent Year.

Hard Winter

The discontent over this year’s Oscars has been all about the overwhelming whiteness of the nominees. Most of that discontent has coalesced around Selma,...
Cake opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Cake (R) Jennifer Aniston stars in this drama as a disfigured woman who becomes obsessed with the suicide of one of the other patients...
Life in the Israeli army has Dana Ivgy considering suicide by staple gun in Zero Motivation.

Odds and Ends

Just like last January, I find myself having watched a bunch of movies from the previous 12 months that I found intriguing but didn’t...

Film Shorts

OPENING: Blackhat (R) Chris Hemsworth stars in Michael Mann’s thriller as a convicted hacker who’s released from prison to help catch a cyber-terrorist. Also with...
Steve Carell holds forth on the importance of coaches as American leaders in Foxcatcher.

Takedown

After billionaire wrestling benefactor John du Pont was arrested in 1989 for murdering coach and former Olympic gold medalist Dave Schultz, the police announced...
Bradley Cooper takes aim in "American Sniper."

Firing Blind

It has become a depressingly familiar ritual during awards season: movies based on real-life events being picked apart by professional trolls and op-ed writers....

The Best Documentaries of 2014

Just like last year, I’m putting this list out at an opportune time. My top documentary of the year (and one of my best...
Predestination opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Predestination (R) Ethan Hawke stars in this thriller as a time-traveling cop trying to catch the one criminal who has eluded him throughout time....