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Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing..
The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it..
STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alte….
Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy..
Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the for….
The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone 'Stuck in Love', with scrup….
Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a remarkable ability to withstand an….
The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the visual d….
We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads..
ADMIRABLY BOLD. There's something grand about the film's sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the way direc….
Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential..
I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it ….
Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts of corporate strategy. ….
STARTLING & INVENTIVE...This is not a movie that lets go of you easily..
War of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth's population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language..
AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence..
The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by th….
Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite..
My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but the grousing of a few adu….
A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love..
Recently, I took my son to see The Haunted Mansion, which was one of the worst things (I hesitate even to call it a movie) that I have ever seen. He ….