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| Director: | Lars von Trier |
| Run Time: | 136 min |
| Rating: | R |
As an art-house disaster flick, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia is an anomaly. The film centers on the incoming collision of the planet Melancholia with the Earth as seen through the eyes of a...
| Director: | Tod Williams |
| Run Time: | 91 min |
| Rating: | R |
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For those that missed it, last year’s Paranormal Activity proved to be a mild phenomenon among weekend horror crowds. Claiming to be found-footage, a young couple sets up a night-vision camera...
| Director: | Clint Eastwood |
| Run Time: | 129 min |
| Rating: | PG-13 |
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At eighty years old, it seems only natural that Clint Eastwood would begin to consider themes of death. The prodigious actor-director-“composer” has credits enough to fill a coffin (in...
| Director: | Rodrigo Cortés |
| Run Time: | 95 min |
| Rating: | R |
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BURIED
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The opening credits are perhaps the most upbeat portion of Buried: winding graphics reminiscent of the stylish opening credits of Alfred Hitchcock’s later films, and set to a Bernard Hermann... ½
| Director: | Matt Reeves |
| Run Time: | 115 min |
| Rating: | R |
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I don’t think anyone who saw Let the Right One In had the thought, “I wished they’d remake this in English.” The Swedish import about an adolescent relationship between a boy...
| Directors: | Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman |
| Run Time: | 94 min |
| Rating: | PG-13 |
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Catfish is being marketed as a “reality thriller,” but after having seen it, it’s hard to call it either a reality or a thriller. The first third of the film, following college-aged...
| Director: | Edgar Wright |
| Run Time: | 112 min |
| Rating: | PG-13 |
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Cinema sponges its advances from other media: Citizen Kane stole from radio, Kazan stole method acting from the stage, and now, at least in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, the forms to plunder are video...
| Director: | Debra Granik |
| Run Time: | 100 min |
| Rating: | R |
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While the narrative thrust may be from the plight of down-on-her-luck Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence), an Ozark Mountain girl who must solve the mystery of her missing father in order to save her family...
| Director: | Álex de la Iglesia |
| Run Time: | 108 min |
| Rating: | R |
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The Oxford Murders is so unbelievably bad that you’ll want to pull other people into the room to show them how ridiculous it is. There’s a sex scene that involves spaghetti. A school bus...
| Director: | Lance Daly |
| Run Time: | 72 min |
| Rating: | Not Rated |
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Kisses opens with a shot of a dead fish floating in its bowl. The color slowly drains from the image, until it is completely black-and-white, and we zoom out to see Kylie, a young Irish girl staring...
| Director: | Phillip Noyce |
| Run Time: | 100 min |
| Rating: | PG-13 |
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SALT
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The tagline “Angelina Jolie is Salt” pretty much sums up the only reason anyone should be interested in Salt, an otherwise typical action thriller involving Russian spies, cold war... ½
| Director: | Christopher Nolan |
| Run Time: | 148 min |
| Rating: | PG-13 |
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If you fell asleep in a room with The Matrix, James Bond, Shutter Island, Fantastic Voyage, and every heist film ever made all playing simultaneously, you might have a dream like Inception....
| Director: | Lisa Cholodenko |
| Run Time: | 104 min |
| Rating: | R |
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The Kids Are All Right feels like a script leftover from the 1970s, which is surprising given its attempt to show a “modern” family. Julianne Moore and Annette Bening play Jules and Nic, a...
| Director: | Bansky |
| Run Time: | 87 min |
| Rating: | R |
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There is perhaps no question that more quickly exposes the ignorance of plebeians and academics alike than this one: What is art? Because, as is soon apparent, everyone has their own answer –...
| Director: | Lee Unkrich |
| Run Time: | 103 min |
| Rating: | G |
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We’re living in a fortunate time. Future generations of moviegoers will be jealous of us the way we’re jealous of audiences that got to see the original screenings of Kubrick and Hitchcock...
| Director: | Vincenzo Natali |
| Run Time: | 104 min |
| Rating: | R |
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SPLICE
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Vincenzo Natali’s Splice combines the DNA of several of film’s best science-fiction stories – Frankenstein, Jurassic Park, E.T. – with the destructive family dynamics of a... ½
| Director: | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| Run Time: | 105 min |
| Rating: | R |
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No one is arguing whether Jean-Pierre Jeunet, director of Amélie and City of Lost Children, has visual imagination or not; but whether imagination alone is satisfying is debatable. His latest...
| Director: | George A. Romero |
| Run Time: | 90 min |
| Rating: | R |
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Ah, the zombie. It is perhaps the only true American movie monster, the others – vampires, Frankensteins, Godzillas, and wolf men – are all foreign imports. Only the zombie, with its...
| Director: | Jon Favreau |
| Run Time: | 124 min |
| Rating: | PG-13 |
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Sequels seem to work better for superhero films than for any other genre. Perhaps it's because comics themselves are nothing but sequels, each story an episode continued from the last, ever...
| Director: | Samuel Bayer |
| Run Time: | 95 min |
| Rating: | R |
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It’s never a good sign for a remake when the original creator is vehemently against it. But, after viewing the reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street, it’s not hard to see why Wes Cravin...
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