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Nostalgia For The Light [Blu-ray] | DVD Review
September 27, 2011Just by reading the title of the film, you get the sense that mammoth ideas covering...
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Michael Shannon, Shepard and Paulson Stained with ‘Mud’
September 26, 2011Jeff Nichols' muse Michael Shannon, Take Shelter player Ray McKinnon, Sarah Paulson (whose stock significantly rose...
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Review: Burning Man
September 26, 2011"...arrives in carefully mapped out bits and pieces to provide an excellently executed emotional punch to...
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Burning Man | Review
September 26, 2011Tinker Troubled Trashed Tom: Teplitzky's Unconventional Debut Rises to the Occasions
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Review: The Moth Diaries
September 23, 2011"Whereas the female boarding school setting was once a hotbed of repression, latent lesbian tendencies, hysteria...
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Review: Killer Elite
September 23, 2011"While Killer Elite does sport some decent chase scenes and meticulous action sequences, it’s resoundingly poorly...
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Review: Twenty Cigarettes
September 23, 2011"Ninety-nine minutes, twenty shots, twenty cigarettes, twenty faces (ten men, ten women) - sounds exciting, doesn't...
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TIFF 2011: Wavelengths 1: Analogue Arcadia
September 23, 2011In its eleventh year, TIFF's Wavelengths programme - which is curated by Andréa Picard and spotlights...
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Review: Carré Blanc
September 23, 2011"While the film quickly establishes an oddly humorous yet ominous and foreboding tone, one can’t help...
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Review: My Worst Nightmare
September 23, 2011"Known for her infamously icy demeanor, Huppert has been no stranger to comedy as of late,...
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Review: Limelight
September 23, 2011"Even those ‘90s New Yorkers who kept their distance from the club scene might remember journalist...
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Killer Elite | Review
September 23, 2011You can take the boy away from the killing, but you can’t the killing away from...
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Limelight | Review
September 23, 2011Spin-heavy apologia for ‘90s NYC club king only scratches the sequined surface
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My Worst Nightmare | Review
September 23, 2011A charming, Gallic comedy featuring one of France’s greatest actresses.
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Twenty Cigarettes | Review
September 23, 2011Not exactly a breath of fresh air, this structural feature could earn an NC-17 with nary...
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Weinstein Make Sure That ‘This Must Be the Place’ Has a Place
September 21, 2011Critically panned in Cannes. Shut out from North American premieres in Toronto and Telluride, it appeared...
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Review: Killer Joe
September 21, 2011"the hilariously dark new film from William Friedkin. Reteaming with Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts after...
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Killer Joe | Review
September 21, 2011A delicious, glossy throwback to the daring exploitative themes of the 1970s.
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Review: Intruders
September 20, 2011"What at first starts as a unique and original tale about two different children terrorized by...
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Interviews
Interview: Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky (The Patron Saints)
September 18, 2011We’ve been keeping tabs on this husband-wife filmmaking team the first time we herd about them...
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Review: Dark Horse
September 17, 2011"...its simplicity is only skin deep and its nightmarish melancholy isn’t as simple to casually term...
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Review: Happy, Happy
September 16, 2011Happy, Happy is one of the most captivating explorations of married couples that one can hope...
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Review: Silent Souls
September 16, 2011"In Russian filmmaker Aleksei Fedorchenko’s Silent Souls the camera orbits around and points our glances at...
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Silent Souls | Review
September 16, 2011Endangered Species: Fedorchenko Demonstrates That Old Traditions Die Hard
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The Patron Saints | Review
September 14, 2011Because I Could Not Stop For Death… A common description of Woody Allen’s Interiors (1978) is...
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Review: The Patron Saints
September 14, 2011"Subject matter combined with a fly-on-the-wall vantage point makes this one of the few films where...
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Review: Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
September 14, 2011"For reasons of both film reflection and historic preservation, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator is...
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Review: Livid
September 13, 2011"While it may not achieve the level of greatness as their first, it’s a fun, creepy...
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Review: Last Call at the Oasis
September 13, 2011"Jessica Yu's new doc pulls back the veil on a little talked about problem that is...
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Review: Skoonheid
September 13, 2011"Not to mention that every object of desire in Beauty is of the youthful and chiseled...
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Review: Extraterrestrial
September 13, 2011"The problem with Nacho Vigalondo’s sophomore feature, Extraterrestrial, is that it’s a bit of a one...
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Beauty (Skoonheid) | Review
September 13, 2011New adaptation of Death in Venice stresses the homosexuality angle to an offensive degree
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Review: Nuit #1
September 12, 2011"With a confidently stripped bare appearance, with no artifice and for a good portion of the...
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Review: You’re Next
September 12, 2011"While the absence of misogynist undertones makes this an extremely pleasurable horror crowd pleaser, the predilection...
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You’re Next | Review
September 12, 2011A fun if altogether trivial entry in home invasion horror.