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Chloe Moretz and Blake Lively Almost Steal Away with Hick

May 11th, 2012

At age 15, Chloë Grace Moretz is now right in the center of the child/adult Venn diagram. Pretty soon we’ll have to accept that she really is a young woman

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Pablo Larraín's Post Mortem Feels Around for the Feeble Pulse of Love, or of a Country

Apr 12th, 2012

In the States, at least, it may seem odd to make a bitterly funny movie about glum working people caught in the crossfire of political upheaval and state-sanctioned murder.

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Violence is Golden (and a Little Exhausting) in The Raid: Redemption

Mar 30th, 2012

Despite the late addition of "Redemption" to the title of The Raid, there's little to no atonement to be had in this stripped-down action movie.

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Live Blogging: 2012 Oscars Red Carpet

Feb 28th, 2012

Okay I had a late start, and now I'm watching some special of some sorts...

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Amanda Seyfried Makes One Crazy-Looking -- But Sympathetic -- Blythe Doll in Gone

Feb 27th, 2012

In the vigilante fantasy Gone, Amanda Seyfried plays Jill, a young Portland woman who can’t shake the memory of her abduction a year ago.

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No Ifs or Ands, But Lots of Butts in Frederick Wiseman's Delightful Crazy Horse

Jan 24th, 2012

One of the most fascinating and intimate moments in Frederick Wiseman’s Crazy Horse, a peek behind the shimmery veil of Paris’s legendary semi-nude cabaret, is the one in which the club’s no-nonsense manager


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Red Tails Blunders Through a Potentially Great Story, with Action and Derring-do to Spare

Jan 23rd, 2012

There are instances when reviewing intentions would be so much easier than reviewing actual movies, and Red Tails, which was directed by first-timer Anthony Hemingway but conceived, shaped and willed into being by George Lucas, is one of them.

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Shocker! My Thoughts on Golden Globe Nominations! An Open Letter to the Hollywood Foreign Press!

Jan 4th, 2012

Dear Hollywood Foreign Press, There’s not a whole lot of foreign-y things going on at the nominations announced this morning. Like for example, what the heck happened to "Harry Potter?" No love for one of the greatest British series ever, not to mention one of the most beloved franchises?

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Ralph Fiennes Takes a Dud of a Play and Turns It into a Not-Bad Coriolanus

Dec 13th, 2011

It’s dangerous to underestimate modern-day reinterpretations of Shakespeare, a la Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet and Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet, not because Shakespeare necessarily needs to be modernized

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Producer Harvey Weinstein Raves About Michelle Williams in "My Week with Marilyn!" Check Out My Fun Interview!

Dec 1st, 2011

Call this "My Five Minutes with Harvey," that's Mr. Harvey Weinstein -- a great producer and a surprisingly good man! I interviewed the guy who changed the way we view independent movies via his Miramax banner (with brother Bob Weinstein) for his entertaining and thought-provoking film

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