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Let Me In: “I’ve Been 12 for a Long Time”
The insinuating Swedish vampire movie Let the Right One In took the world (including the 2008 Lone Star International Film Festival) by storm, and...
I Like The Social Network
Let me start by telling you what The Social Network isn’t, because it’s a lot of things you might not expect. First of all,...
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Catfish (PG-13) Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman’s possibly staged documentary about Nev Schulman and his attempts to date a woman he met on the...
Wall Street Sequel: Gekko Insurance
Here’s an example of overthinking. Oliver Stone’s sequel to his 1987 hit Wall Street is entitled Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. The subtitle refers...
Legend of the Guardians: Hoot and a Holler
Live-action filmmakers have been getting into animation lately, but only the ones who have a strongly developed and distinctive cinematic style (like Tim Burton...
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The Extra Man (R) Kevin Kline stars in this comedy by Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman (American Splendor) as a failed playwright-turned-social...
Talk of The Town
After all this time, after having his private life extensively dragged through the tabloids by a series of high-profile romances, after becoming a pop...
Resident Evil: Afterlife Bores
The fourth Resident Evil game was a thrilling reinvention of the series, ditching zombies for more unusual monsters. It also was a fast-paced story...
R.I.P., Claude Chabrol
"I love murder," the French film director reputedly once said. Indeed, many characters in his movies meet swift, brutal, meaningless deaths, so it seems...
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Bran Nue Dae (PG-13) Rocky McKenzie stars in this Australian musical as a young Aborigine who runs away from religious school in 1967 to...
