Tribeca Review: Mistaken for Strangers
If you’re going into Mistaken for Strangers looking for a rockumentary/tour documentary on The National, you’re in for disappointment. The film was directed ...
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Tribeca Review: Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
It seems like we’re well beyond the age of the public intellectual, or even the public author who may show society the way. ...
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Review: Cutie and the Boxer
A friend of mine who’s a poet once told me that she’d never date another writer. If I remember the conversation right, it ...
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Review: Frankenstein’s Army
When it’s firing on all cylinders, Frankenstein’s Army is a great monster movie. The creatures that appear on screen have an odd aesthetic ...
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Tribeca Review: Mr. Jones
Filmmakers who are reading this: please, just stop with the found footage already. Seriously. Stop it. For the love of all that is ...
Review: Oblivion
A hard-boiled science-fiction in this day and age is somewhat hard to come by. We’ve had the cerebral Inception, among others, but nothing truly ...
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Tribeca Review: Mobius
There’s a moment in Möbius where I expected a turn toward high-stakes adventure and evasion. As in any story of spies and espionage, ...
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Tribeca Review: Adult World
In my blurb review for Neil Jordan’s vampire film Byzantium, my main gripe had a lot to do with the age of the ...
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Review: 42
Just to make it clear, it’s nearly impossible not to enjoy 42 in some way. It’s a sports movie about civil rights involving the ...
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Review: Kill Team
The war in Afghanistan is the longest military conflict in which the United States has been involved. The operation is nowhere near as ...
Review: Dark Touch
There were so many varying opinions at the screening of Dark Touch I went to. Flixist’s pal Steve over at Unseen Films is ...
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Tribeca Review: Oxyana
A couple of weeks ago, the 1995 patent on the painkiller OxyContin expired. OxyContin is a particularly potent form of the opioid Oxycodone, ...