I had high hopes heading into Invictus, the new Clint Eastwood film about the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. Here was a movie directed by a...
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The most remarkable thing about Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox is how distinctly personal it is. Not that there’s anything particularly...
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If you walk into the new Coen Brothers movie a few minutes late, you may think you’re in the wrong theater. A Serious Man opens with an extended...
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It’s one of the stranger titles in recent years, and the movie more than lives up to it in the strangeness department. The Men Who Stare at...
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In the dinner party of life, Michael Moore is the uninvited guest who spends the evening hogging the hors d’œvres and shanghaiing everyone...
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There’s a scene early in The Baader Meinhof Complex that exemplifies the film’s dangerous power. A gang tears down the streets of Berlin...
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The sad, strange story of corporate whistleblower Mark Whitacre has been turned into a sad, strange movie by Steven Soderbergh. The Informant! stars...
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The experience of watching Adoration is akin to sitting around a dorm room with a copy of Nietzsche and a bag of weed and having a heated debate with...
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Growing up, no one scared me more than Mike Tyson. Maybe it was his animal ferocity in the ring or the way his eyes seemed to pierce through the back...
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It seems that every five years America renews its fascination with Woodstock. This August marks the 40th anniversary of the fabled festival, and the...
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