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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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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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The Miners’ Hymns
The delivery system for a film is generally pretty simple: it’s shot, the image captured and stored, then projected onto a screen of some sort. With Bill Morrison’s experimental efforts, the process gets a
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Declaration of War
There is a general expectation that a film’s style will fall in line with the seriousness of its subject matter. If the material is light, the film will trundle along joyously, brisk and bright
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Miss Bala
Roaring its story to life from the hard sparks of the ongoing Mexican drug wars, Gerardo Naranjo’s Miss Bala demonstrates how easily an unremarkable life can slip into pure dismay. The film opens on
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Crazy Horse
For a documentary film about a subject as titillating as the Parisian club Crazy Horse’s nude show, a filmmaker has two obvious choices, metaphorically linked to the camera itself: does he zoom in and
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A Separation
Playing out in the hallways and backrooms of crowded municipal courts, A Separation is a movie held up by words, which in this world have a sort of incredible power, capable of destroying the
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The Adventures of Tintin
It’s good to have Steven Spielberg back. It’s been a while since we had a proper picture from the man – while 2005′s surprisingly gritty Munich showed off a surprisingly grown-up Spielberg devoid of
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
We live in the Information Age, and David Fincher has become its prophet. Increasingly, his protagonists engage foremost in pursuing and processing information, but even before that, his stylistic signature displayed a hyperawareness of
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Carnage
After another critical comeback of sorts with The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski has made a decidedly smaller picture, adapting Yasmina Reza’s Tony-winning play God of Carnage for the screen, trimming this comedy of ill
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