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    How 'The Purge,' Opening the Stanley Film Festival, Reminds Us Why We Love Horror Movies

    by Eric Kohn on May 3, 2013

    The Stanley Hotel might not harbor ghosts in the traditional sense, but the empty hallways and surrounding desolation of this remote chunk of wooden real estate adjacent to Rocky Mountain National Park in Estes Park, Colorado suggest the sort of phantom presence that active imaginations tend to crea...

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    Critical Consensus: Wesley Morris and Dana Stevens Debate Why We Should Care About 'Iron Man 3'

    by Eric Kohn, Wesley Morris and Dana Stevens on May 2, 2013

    Critical Consensus is a biweekly feature in which two critics from Indiewire’s Criticwire Network discuss new releases with Indiewire’s chief film critic, Eric Kohn. In this edition, Grantland's Wesley Morris and Slate's Dana Stevens grapple with "Iron Man 3" and its relevance in film culture.

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    Filmmakers You Should Know: 'Post Tenebras Lux' Director Carlos Reygadas, Mexico's Darkly Cinematic Dream-Maker

    by Eric Kohn on April 30, 2013

    Few Mexican filmmakers have achieved the global exposure of Carlos Reygadas, although he's not exactly a spokesperson for the country's allure. Reygadas' formally daring, visually inventive narratives present spectacular and frequently unsettling perspectives of Mexican life from the countryside to ...

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    What This Year's Tribeca Winners Tell Us About the Value of the Festival

    by Eric Kohn on April 29, 2013

    What defines the ideal Tribeca film? This year's top winners suggest a potential answer.

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    Keanu Reeves Gives His Weirdest and Most Distinctive Performance In Years In 'Generation Um...'

    by Eric Kohn on April 26, 2013

    Few actors carry over their onscreen persona from one project to another like Keanu Reeves. In recent years, however, his subdued demeanor has been virtually absent from American cinema, save for a handful of supporting roles and one vaguely interesting change of pace in the heist movie "Henry's Cri...

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    Why Documentary Profiles Should Have Had Their Own Section at Tribeca

    by Eric Kohn on April 25, 2013

    Why not give the documentary profiles their own space to shine? Given that this type of filmmaking can be found among countless new features each year, the festival's programmers may want to consider carving out a better space for them in the next edition. In the meantime, these movies still provide...

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    Tribeca Review: 'Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic' Never Gets a Grasp on Its Talented, Controversial Subject

    by Alison Willmore on April 24, 2013

    When Marina Zenovich made her 2008 doc "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," she had an angle on her subject that gave the film a sense of urgency even though it was centered around events that took place 30 years before. It wasn't a simple profile of Polanski, it was a look at his sexual abuse scan...

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    The Best Double Bill of the Year: How Matthew McConaughey in 'Mud' and Amy Seimetz's 'Sun Don't Shine' Make Us Sympathize With Criminals

    by Eric Kohn on April 23, 2013

    Crime is one of the great story hooks that movies have to offer us, playing some key role in any number new releases on a regular basis. Blockbuster formula tends to gloss over criminal activity in favor of black-and-white dualities: Good prevails over evil. The aliens are vanquished. The Avengers ...

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    Why the Good Narratives at the Tribeca Film Festival Are Away From the Spotlight

    by Eric Kohn on April 22, 2013

    Real life offers many stories worth telling and an increasingly affordable means of telling them, so it comes as no great surprise that great documentaries circulate more prevalently with each passing year. As usual, the sizable program at the Tribeca Film Festival is especially strong with non-fict...

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    Tribeca Review: 'Gasland' Gets a Sequel, But Does It Offer Anything New? Looking At 'Gasland Part II'

    by Eric Kohn on April 21, 2013

    Josh Fox's 2010 Oscar-nominated documentary "Gasland" compellingly exposed the damaging impact of a form of natural gas drilling called hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as fracking, on small town America. Framed by Fox's wry perspective, the movie clearly demonstrated how fracking and the oil c...

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