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Oeuvre: Spike Lee: Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
Oeuvre is an in-depth examination of the entire body of work of an important director. Many filmmakers begin their careers with student films or college theses, and while for many people “student film” is
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John Carter
Flash Gordon is one of my favorite movies. If you’re going to adapt a comic strip or pulp story or any lurid bit of pop, you should go balls deep into your property and
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In Darkness
As insensitive as this is going to sound, the very existence of a film like In Darkness elicits an important artistic question: do we need another film about the Holocaust? Obviously I don’t want
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The Secret World of Arrietty
You probably already know this, but Studio Ghibli is basically the Pixar of Japan, and not just because Pixar takes a lot of influence from Ghibli. Like Pixar movies, a new release from Hayao
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The Turin Horse
While trying to explain the plot of Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr’s newest release The Turin Horse to one of my roommates, the words coming out of my mouth sounded something like this: “So, this
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Revisit: The Prestige
Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. Christopher Nolan’s films entertain viewers with their well-dressed neo-noir style and narrative complexity, but below the surface they’re also
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The Woman in Black
While at our worst we’re a species that spends most of its time bickering over stupid shit, I think we can all agree that old-timey stuff is fucking scary. There’s this creaking metal cruelty
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Man on a Ledge
As much as Oscar Night montages want you to believe cinema is a magical medium that dazzles and delights, some movies are simply made by assholes. There’s no other explanation for the existence of
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The Grey
The trailers for The Grey didn’t foster much hope, except for that final scene where Liam Neeson tapes broken airplane liquor bottles to his hands and charges head-on at a CGI wolf. I knew
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