Review: In the House
There’s a great short story in Richard Yates’s Eleven Kinds of Loneliness called “Builders.” In it, one of the characters naively but sincerely ...
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Review: Identity Thief
Jason Bateman. I love his work in Arrested Development, and some of the secondary characters he has played because he can be funny ...
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Review: Side Effects
I have a very love-hate relationship with Stephen Soderbergh. He made my least favorite film of all time, Bubble, and my least favorite film ...
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Review: Simon Killer
The title Simon Killer makes it seem like you’ll be watching a slasher movie or a serial killer movie. It recalls Talking Heads ...
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Film Comment Selects Review: Dormant Beauty
[For the next week we’ll be looking at some of the movies playing at the Film Comment Selects series, featuring films hand selected ...
Film Comment Selects Review: 3
[For the next week we’ll be looking at some of the movies playing at the Film Comment Selects series, featuring films hand selected ...
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Film Comment Selects Review: Motorway
[For the next week we’ll be looking at some of the movies playing at the Film Comment Selects series, featuring films hand selected ...
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Review: Bullet to the Head
While Schwarzenegger has just recently returned to full blown action status Sylvester Stallone has been churning out action films at a steady clip. The increasingly muscular actor, who ...
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Review: Dear Mandela
Apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994, bringing a majority party, the African National Congress (ANC), into power. In those first years of ...
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Review: The Taste of Money
To prepare for this review, I watched three of director Im Sang-Soo’s older films: A Good Lawyer’s Wife, The President’s Last Bang, and ...
Sundance Review: Lovelace
Pornography is a dirty business and I’m not strictly speaking about the clean-up crew. One doesn’t have to deeply penetrate the industry to ...
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Sundance Review: The Gatekeepers
In Israel’s Shin Bet, I find an intelligence agency not so different from the CIA. In Israel’s religious zealots, I find an extremist ...