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Review: ‘Tony Manero’ The Solemn Cousin Of ‘Observe & Report’?

September 17, 2009 2:33 pm

We briefly reviewed "Tony Manero" when we saw it at the New York Film Festival last year, but it hit in very limited release late this summer and we wanted to bring a deeper look to your attention, as we didn't...

Review: ‘Lorna’s Silence’

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September 16, 2009 2:25 pm

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"Lorna's Silence" recently came out in limited release earlier this summer and we didn't have a chance to review it. We wanted to make sure you caught it when it came to DVD."Lorna's Silence," the latest award-...

Review: ‘Unmade Beds’

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September 15, 2009 3:00 pm

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A web of tangled bare arms and legs, hands and feet and locked lips; this is the image in Alexis Dos Santos' "Unmade Beds" that's stayed with me the most, and that probably best represents this youthful, sexual...

Review: ‘A Woman in Berlin’

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July 16, 2009 10:08 am

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German actress Nina Hoss has a central role in Christian Petzold's second feature, "Jerichow," one of my favorite films of 2009's first half, and now she carries Max Färberböck's WWII picture, "A Woman in Berli...

‘Whatever Works’: Mildly Entertaining, Same Material Woody’s Been Pedling For At Least Two Decades

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June 19, 2009 12:21 pm

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With his late career peak, 1992's "Husbands and Wives," Woody Allen explored the rocky slope of marriage in all its complex infidelities and regrets. Since around that time, the filmmaker's insight into the nat...

‘Vengeance,’ ‘Nymph,’ ‘Vincere,’ ‘Air Doll,’ More: 10 Trailers You Haven’t Seen From Cannes

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June 15, 2009 7:40 pm

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The 62 annual Cannes Film Festival is over, we get that, it's not like we're clinging on to it or something, but there's still a lot of films people haven't seen and ostensibly many of us, including you and I, ...

‘Up’ Score Soars, Like the Film; Is Giacchino Our Greatest Living Film Composer?

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June 1, 2009 2:34 pm

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Like his superlative score for 2007's "Ratatouille," Michael Giacchino's symphonic compositions for the latest Pixar animated feature, Pete Docter's "Up," make most others working in the field look bad by compa...

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