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Sundance 2013 Review: 'Fruitvale' Is Compelling Real-Life Drama Lessened By ...
But this isn't simply a movie “based on a true story” where important facts can be massaged in the name of creative license. Films like Argo and The Impossible took heat for factual alterations, but they were done in service of story or convenience ...
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
The grim heroes don't have a nuance or more than a hint of emotion between them, and the same goes for the film around them. Plot developments are ladled out in such a perfunctory way, it's almost possible to hear the hammer shrug apathetically in ...
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Cast: Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte
Parker, starring Jason Statham as the single-named vengeance machine, takes its story from Westlake's 2000 book Flashfire, though it grabs some establishing details from 1962's The Hunter, the basis for the other two films. Statham stars as a thief ...
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Fruitvale Movie Review Film About Oakland Man Killed by BART Police Shines ...
The Sundance Film festival in Park City, Utah, is arguably the most well-known film festival on the planet. Since 1978, this festival has served as a launching pad for numerous successful films, and come award season, many award winners. With actor ...
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Movie Review: "Django Unchained"
At one point during Django Unchained I leaned over to my fiancé and whispered, "Only Tarantino has the guts to tell the truth about America." Which, in retrospect, seems like an odd thing to say. After all, there are many truths about America. What's ...
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Gangster Squad
We notice, especially when a new film falls on its fat one. Exhibit A: Gangster Squad, a mob epic that flushes a classy cast (Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone) down the sinkhole of creative bankruptcy. Gangster Squad doesn't have an ...
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Movie Review A Haunted House
A Haunted House star and cowriter Marlon Wayans was one of the early mainstays of the hugely successful Scary Movie franchise. And this project harkens back to the initial days of the oughties spoof craze, when screenwriters actually lampooned film ...
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ONtap MOVIES: 'Zero Dark Thirty'
MIAMI — The moment Jessica Chastain finished reading the script for “Zero Dark Thirty,” director Kathryn Bigelow's scrupulously researched recreation of the CIA's decade-long search for Osama bin Laden, the first movie she thought of was “All the ...
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Hillary Clinton Movie Screenplay in Development
A new screenplay based on Hillary Clinton is reportedly in development in Hollywood, according to Politico. Rodham, penned by South Korean newcomer Young Il Kim, takes place in the Seventies, tracking a young Clinton in her twenties as she juggles the ...
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Film Review: Les Misérables
It was as inevitable as the French Revolution. "Les Misérables," the worldwide smash stage musical based on Victor Hugo's epic 19th-century novel, has finally come to the screen. This lavish production comes equipped with a bevy of movie stars singing ...
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Director: Kathryn Bigelow
And in the weeks leading up to opening day, the left has gone full Drudge Siren—or the lefty equivalent of Drudge Siren, anyway—over reports that the film depicts torture as an essential in finding bin Laden, thus justifying a morally repellent ...
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Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
A director known for the icy classicism and genre subversion of films like Funny Games and Caché, Haneke has a pitilessness that could not be more perfect for Amour, which would collapse at any whiff of sentimentality. And he's cast two French New Wave ...
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'Zero Dark Thirty' Reviews: Kathryn Bigelow's Osama Bin Laden Movie Praised ...
"[Chastain] is essentially asked here to carry a movie for the first time, and she rises to the occasion," wrote THR Oscar watcher Scott Feinberg. Both Feinberg and HitFix's In Contention blogger Kris Tapley seemed a bit muted on the film's overall ...
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Talaash Movie Review: Truly Deserves your attendance
Talaash is one such films and with no-negative review, it deserves your attendance in theatre". Story: Talaash movie starts with a car accident of a superstar, Armaan Kapoor. His car dives in the sea in Mumbai. For the starter it looks like an open and ...
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Movie review: 'Life of Pi' a powerful adventure, gives reasons to believe
Ang Lee's wonderfully adventurous adaptation of the 2001 Yann Martel novel is a deeply spiritual film. In it, we hear one whale of a story, told by an older man (Irrfan Khan) named Piscine “Pi” Patel to a young scholar who is looking to write a book ...
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Movie review: 'The Man With Iron Fists' could use a smoother hand
"The Man With the Iron Fists" is a wildly whirling martial arts spectacle with an endless array of exotic knives, a penchant for Zen philosophizing and an unquenchable thirst for blood. It may just be one of the best bad movies ever. I do not confer ...
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Wonder Women!: Film Review
Playing like a breezy, cinematic college term paper, Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines uses the iconic comic book character as a springboard for a freewheeling examination of positive pop culture role models for women.
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Movie Review: '2 Days in New York,' Starring Julie Delpy and Chris Rock
At the opening of her photography show, Marion, the high-strung heroine of “2 Days in New York,” has an awkward encounter with a critic. Frustrated by his poker face and his noncommittal responses, and stressed out by everything else going on in her ...
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Movie review: The Dark Knight Rises - a dissenting view
Which has been my criticism of so many of the comic-book movies of the past decade: too little attention paid to that most necessary of elements -- excitement. There is very little about The Dark Knight Rises that will make you tense, hold you in ...
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3-D Movies: Thrills and Ills
Young adults at higher risk for motion sickness than older viewers, study found.
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Katy Perry's 'Part Of Me' Mirror Shows Movies We'd Actually Watch (PICTURES)
The reviews for Katy Perry's concert film/documentary/Hollywood press release "Part of Me" are in, and critics agree: Katy Perry definitely has a movie out called "Part of Me." We actually have no idea what the movie is about, but based on the poster ...
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Movie Review: Moonrise Kingdom
However, I am a huge fan of his, and The Royal Tenenbaums ranks among my favorite movies. While some might argue that Moonrise Kingdom is more of the same from him, this isn'ta bad thing because his “same” is still a unique, fun, “feel good” experience ...
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Pianist accompanies vintage silent movies for a modern crowd
Silent movies evoke a different time — one that wasn't necessarily simpler, as the cliché goes, but uncertain, like ours, and for many of the same reasons — and they also offer a respite from the cacophany of contemporary cinema.
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Film Review: Battlefield America
An urban dance movie that serves as a more effective parody of the overworked genre than the Wayans Brothers' admittedly lamentable Dance Flick, Battlefield America manages to pack every cliché imaginable into its overstuffed and overlong 106 minutes.
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Review: Crooked Arrows
I'm also always open to giving an obscure film a shot, seeing if something interesting slipped through the system, and Crooked Arrows is actually pretty entertaining. Routh plays Joe Logan, a slick businessman making a deal to expand his Indian casino ...
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Zimbio Review - 'Snow White and the Huntsman' Is Nightmarish in a Good Way
Sanders' imagery in the film, equal parts beautiful and cruel, is wildly inventive and at times absolutely breathtaking. The special effects are top-notch, which is impressive considering this is the director's first feature film.
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Review: Cellmates
It will not surprise anyone that this movie is not good, and given the cursory release it would just be unfair and mean to bash it. I only saw it for the interview with Sizemore, so this review should be taken as the constructive criticism Baget may be ...
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