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It’s thrilling when actors can make characters that should be hateful magnetic and sympathetic. Think Gordon Gekko and Nick Naylor; think...
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Find out more about Jenny: Jenny Halper has covered film for the Boston Phoenix, Women on Film, Boston Now, and NewEnglandFilm.com, among others, and served as film editor for Spare Change News. Born in Brooklyn, she is a graduate of Northwestern University and recently earned an MFA at Emerson College. She works in film development in New York City. |
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It could almost be called “irony”: right after Professor David Lurie has an affair with a student half his age, his daughter is raped. But...
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The stars of The Burning Plain should win some sort of award for making suffering compelling, and I mean that as a compliment. It can’t be easy...
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In Shane Acker’s feature debut 9, creatures that resemble rag dolls fight through a post-apocalyptic universe in which man-made machines have...
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Once you get past thudding horror movie music, obvious plot holes, and the fact that the final twist was leaked to the internet so long ago it barely...
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I’m not generally inclined to like movies that earn laughs from dead puppies; Easy Virtue, however, also pokes fun at fox hunting, infidelity,...
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Twenty-three years ago, Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan read the story of a pregnant Irish woman blocked from boarding an Israel-bound airplane when...
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The past and the present co-exist in Atom Egoyan’s Adoration, which imagines that an unwitting suicide bomber and her secretive husband are the...
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Julianna Margulies might have spent years on and off in her current hometown of New York, but she hadn’t heard of City Island until she was cast...
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Young Billy Conway lives in a surreal suburbia where accidental incinerations are omnisciently narrated, car crashes occur in dreamlike slow motion,...
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