Movie Reviews
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Moviegoer, She Married Him: Wasikowska and Fassbender in a Glorious Jane Eyre
That woman with the braids on her head, struggling to walk through lashing rain, falling in the mud, determinedly fleeing we don’t know what – in the dramatic opening of Cary Joji Fukunaga’s new film, she could be any fiery 19th century heroine, from Tess of the D’Urbervilles to Cathy in Wuthering H...
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Catherine Breillat’s “Sleeping Beauty”: A Thinking Woman’s Fairy Tale
Movies are meant to enchant us and Catherine Breillat’s visually stunning The Sleeping Beauty does that and more. Like her recent Bluebeard, this is a thinking woman’s fairy tale, in which Breillat explores the sexual awakening of girls, and the meaning of class and gender, revising the familiar sto...
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Review: Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. Love Saves “The Adjustment Bureau”
Love can save your life; that’s the message of The Adjustment Bureau. But it’s Matt Damon and Emily Blunt who save the film, turning it from the overloaded political sci-fi romantic thriller it might have been into a breezy, charming love story. In the old Hollywood days, what the actors have togeth...
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Movie Review: Liam Neeson in the Mistitled "Unknown"
If you’re watching an action- thriller about a man who wakes from a four-day coma, only to be told he’s not who he thinks he is - but whoever he is, thugs are out to kill him - you really shouldn’t be able to guess the big reveal halfway through. That is true even when the mystified hero is playe...
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Movie Review: Ed Helms Stays Small-Town in "Cedar Rapids"
Somewhere inside Cedar Rapids, with Ed Helms as a very-small-town insurance salesman sent to a convention in Iowa’s big city, there’s a scathing Christopher Guest satire waiting to get out. There’s also a raucous Hangover-style comedy waiting to get out. Too bad neither one takes over.
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Movie Review: Leighton Meester and Minka Kelly in The Roommate
My Evil Twin did not write this review, although by the end it may seem that way. The Roommate, with Leighton Meester and Minka Kelly in a would-be Single White Female psycho-thriller, has many problems, but here is a big one: it is a terrible movie, yet it probably needs to make a ton at the box of...
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Natalie Portman in "The Other Woman," Deja Vu
Riding the tail feathers of Black Swan, The Other Woman finally arrives in theaters tomorrow, a month after it began its on-demand run. As I said when I reviewed it on VOD, Don Roos’ drama about a woman mourning her dead child and trying to adjust to being a stepmother is an irredeemable muddle; eve...
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Movie Review, "Cold Weather": Indie Vision Meets Sherlock Holmes
The label independent film is tossed around so casually it can mean almost anything, but Cold Weather – written, directed and edited by Aaron Katz – displays a true independent vision. This accomplished, small-scale work dares to break a fundamental rule of movie-making: it starts out as one kind of...
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The Season Of Depressing Movies: Why Make Yourself Sad?
Biutiful is eloquent, touching, artistic and – let’s be honest – one of the saddest movies you’ll ever see. You won’t leave the theater dancing. But you won’t be sorry you saw it.
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Movie Review: The Tough Yet Poetic "When We Leave"
A young man points a gun at a woman while she walks down the street holding a small boy’s hand. As we soon learn in the long flashback that leads us full circle to this point, the man is the woman’s, Umay’s, much-loved younger brother, and she has been trying desperately to create a life with her so...
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