NYAFF Review: The Bullet Vanishes
There’s an observation in This Is Spinal Tap that sums up the dilemma of many detective stories: there’s a fine line between clever ...
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NYAFF Review: Helter Skelter
It would seem to me that being a supermodel might actually be one of the most difficult jobs out there. It’s not the ...
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Review: The Heat
The Heat is an odd movie. It’s a buddy cop film with two women at the center. That alone should be a breath ...
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Japan Cuts Review: A Woman and War
It’s hard to offend me. Really hard. For a while, I thought it might be almost impossible. Not even A Serbian Film offended me ...
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NYAFF Review: The Legend Is Born: Ip Man
Ip Man starring Donnie Yen and directed by Wilson Yip is one of the best martial arts films of the last 10 years. It ...
Review: Ip Man: The Final Fight
In the review for The Legend Is Born: Ip Man, I mentioned how the character of Yip Man seems to be turning into ...
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Review: A Band Called Death
It’s weird what manages to slip through the cracks. In last year’s Academy Award-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man, the music of Sixto Rodriguez ...
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Review: A Werewolf Boy
Werewolves are kind of dumb. They’re an amalgamation of two great flavors (wolves and people) that don’t go great together. The most telling ...
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Review: The Bling Ring
Sofia Coppola is definitely a talented filmmaker who may one day have a career as stirring and epic as her father’s, but even ...
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Review: World War Z
World War Z had a troubled production. After the rights for the books were procured by Brad Pitts production company almost everything went wrong. ...
Review: Man of Steel
I’m a staunch fan of Superman Returns (more on that in a future post), but the rest of the world wasn’t so much. Thus, ...
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Review: After Tiller
Before After Tiller even began, I thought I knew how I was going to start this review: I was going to comment on the ...