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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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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