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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
The Zombie Pub Crawl may be dead and buried (or is it?), but there are still plenty of thrilling, chilling horror classics among this week’s best bets for moviegoers who want to escape the multiplex....
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Movie Blog: The 10 Scariest Movies Ever
Much like comedy, horror is one of the most subjectively-received movie genres out there. Just as you can’t really argue what people think is or isn’t funny, it’s difficult to convince anyone that...
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Movie Blog: Nutty ‘Cloud Atlas’ Lacks Oxygen
How often can you say that an “A” for effort is attached to an “F” for achievement? Cloud Atlas — an indisputable folie a six — comes close enough to earning both those marks to incite genuine awe. If...
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
Most of you have probably put away your costumes for another year, but there are officially still a few days left before Halloween, so most of this week’s best bets deal in the macabre. Here are five...
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Movie Blog: Claire Denis Retrospective @ The Walker
Someone somewhere wrote that Claire Denis’s Beau Travail, an intoxicating, homosocial interpolation of Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, was the final indisputable masterpiece of the 20th century. She’s...
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Movie Blog: Hero-Villains Of ‘Flight,’‘Wreck-It Ralph’
What makes someone good? What makes someone bad? Is it possible to be both, at least within the confining parameters of big studio entertainments? Ironically, it’s the movie for kids that suggests one...
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Movie Blog: ‘Janeane From Des Moines’ Review
Remember when Sacha Baron Cohen was first able to fool politicians into his outrageous interviews? Yes? Good. If you need a refresher, here’s some classic Ali G. Anyway, consider the idea: an actor...
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
It’s Election week. Depending on your position, you may find yourself either in a celebratory mood or in dire need of some escapism. What better way to put a cherry on top of a victory or to rub some...
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Movie Blog: ‘Skyfall’ Keeps Bond’s Old Bones Fresh & New
After 23 films and 50 years, James Bond has never looked more sleek, svelte and lethal. We already knew, thanks to Casino Royale (which has basically supplanted Goldfinger from the throne as the...
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Movie Blog: ‘Escape Fire’ Offers Way Out Of Health Care Mess
All revved up politically from Tuesday? Escape Fire, a documentary focused on how to fix America’s “disease management” health care system, may likely augment your renewed vigor and perhaps give you...
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
Too late to wrap up Halloween horror movies, too early to break out your yuletide holiday fare. However, it’s the perfect time to start catching up on some offbeat classics and cult fare before the...
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Movie Blog: ‘Breaking Dawn’ Brings Series To Merciful Close
Breaking Dawn, Part 2 is a true win-win proposition. On one hand, it ends the series on a clear high note. On the other hand, it ends the series. As much as I love that a gang of likeminded young...
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Movie Blog: ‘Lincoln’ Endorses, Demonstrates Patience
Last month, a critic friend of mine tweeted his rapturous initial reaction upon seeing a surprise screening of Lincoln: “Spielberg’s Lincoln is the best film Roberto Rossellini never made. Also one of...
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
Thanksgiving weekend is often one of the busiest (if not the busiest) movie weekends of the entire year, and this one should be no different with Life of Pi, Rise of the Guardians, Silver Linings...
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Movie Blog: Q&A With ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ Author
Silver Linings Playbook is sort of a lateral pass for director David O. Russell. Much like his last movie The Fighter, Playbook is a blue-collar romantic dramedy with sport movie trimmings and a...
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Movie Blog: Reviews Of Thanksgiving Offerings
Life of Pi The dangerous thing about movies emphasizing eye-popping visuals is that if there’s even the slightest sense that the rest of the film is not in proper balance, the whole thing risks...
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
You probably already read that Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part 2, Skyfall, Lincoln, and Life of Pi all helped bolster box office receipts to the plumiest Thanksgiving weekend totals ever, approximately...
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Movie Blog: Best British Ads Of 2012 @ The Walker
It’s that time of year. Snowflakes fall, sidewalk salt crystals scar your shoes, and the best British ads of the year play at the Walker Art Center. The British Arrows Awards — a screening tradition...
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Movie Blog: ‘Killing Them Softly,’‘Hitchcock’ Both Disappoint
It’s not so difficult to envision a grimy criminal underworld where men (and pretty much only men) pick one another off with cold-blooded professionalism. It’s a little bit further along on the scale...
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
Holy crap. For three weeks now the top three grossing films have been (in this order) Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part 2, Skyfall, and Lincoln. Odds are you may be looking for something different this...
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