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Thin Ice
In the new comic thriller Thin Ice, Greg Kinnear plays a Wisconsin insurance salesman named Mickey Prohaska. He’s introduced as a fairly hapless soul, easily duped at a conference into a hotel room tryst
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On the Ice
At its most basic, On the Ice is a not unfamiliar story. An accident happens. Someone dies. Bonds of friendship are tested as guilt builds and the questions keep coming. But what makes director
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This Means War
The extent to which negative reviews affect a filmmaker is questionable, but in the case of McG (born Joseph McGinty Nichol), it’s clear that they do not. His films run so directly counter to
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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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Michael
Markus Schleinzer doesn’t waste much time in letting the audience know that the titular character of Michael (Michael Fuith) is a pedophile keeping a 10-year-old locked in his basement. One could argue this represents
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Perfect Sense
If only Perfect Sense had been a film about a pair of assholes facing the end times together. Instead, the drama is played alongside hopeful scenes of humanity’s ability to adapt during overwhelming crises,
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Return
It’s harder to remember in this era in which it’s superheroes rather than soldiers that dominate the screen, but stories of war have been a dominant part of America cinema for its entire history.
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Rampart
Rampart begins with a tight close-up of Woody Harrleson’s profile as he maneuvers his police car around Los Angeles. Director Oren Moverman keeps the camera close to his star’s face, making it nearly impossible
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The Innkeepers
Ti West is out of step with the times. The director specializes in horror films but he seemingly has no interest in reviving a splatterific franchise for a new generation, nor does he want
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