Review: Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock is easily one of the greatest directors of all time and you would be hard pressed to find a person who ...
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Review: Rise of the Guardians
It’s nearly Christmas and that means the obligatory Christmas animated film from one studio or another. Sometimes you get a new Christmas classic ...
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Review: Lincoln
Depicting another person’s life has to be one of the most daunting jobs to take in Hollywood. Considering the protagonist of Steven Spielberg’s ...
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Review: Best Intentions
[For the next two weeks, we’ll be covering select films from Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema. Now in its seventh year, this film ...
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Review: Of Snails and Men
[For the next two weeks, we’ll be covering select films from Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema. Now in its seventh year, this film ...
Review: Beware of Mr. Baker
Beware of Mr. Baker is like the anti-Searching for Sugar Man. The latter chronicled Sixto Rodriguez, an obscure Detroit folk singer who inexplicably ...
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Review: Zipper: Coney Island’s Last Wild Ride
When I was in grad school, a lot of my peers said that they wrote about place. By that they meant people’s attachments ...
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DOC NYC Review: A Girl and a Gun
[For the next week and half, we will be covering DOC NYC 2012, New York City’s premier documentary film festival. Check back with ...
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Review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2
There’s no real way to predict what you’re getting when watching one of the Twilight films. You either get a surprisingly corny and ...
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Review: Wreck-It Ralph
Almost immediately, there’s a weird dissonance in Wreck-it Ralph, Disney’s love-letter to the 80s/90s age of arcades. From frame one, where the film ...
Review: Informant
For most of America, Brandon Darby is not a household name. There are probably pockets of the South which recognize him, but in ...
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Reel Asian Review: Seeking Asian Female
[Flixist will cover select films playing at the Reel Asian Film Festival, which runs in Toronto from November 6th through the 11th, and ...