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Labor Day (PG-13) Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air) directs this adaptation of Joyce Maynard’s novel starring Kate Winslet as a depressed mother...
Odds and Ends
I spend every December catching up with films that I didn’t see in the theater, and every year I find interesting ones that never...
Film Shorts
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I, Frankenstein (PG-13) Aaron Eckhart stars in this supernatural thriller as the mad scientist’s creation who has survived into the modern age to take...
Ryan’s Hope
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is the fifth big-screen adventure of the all-American superspy invented by Tom Clancy, the second one that imagines Jack as...
Apple and Tree
For the first two minutes of Gimme Shelter, I thought this modestly budgeted drama was on to something. Crazier, I thought its star, Vanessa...
Film Shorts
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Devil’s Due (R) Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett co-direct this found-footage horror movie about a young couple (Zach Gilford and Allison Miller) who are...
All Folked Up
When I ran my list of 2013’s best movies a couple of weeks ago, I left off one film that was on many other...
Letts Do It
I need to say this right off the bat: I haven’t seen Tracy Letts’ play August: Osage County on stage. I’ve heard that the...
The Best Documentaries of 2013
This is fortuitous: My pick for the best documentary of the year (and one of my top 10 movies of the year) comes out...
Film Shorts
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August: Osage County (R) Meryl Streep stars in this adaptation of Tracy Letts’ acclaimed play as a dying Oklahoma matriarch who gathers her family...
