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Michael Mann is not an idea man. That’s Michael Keaton’s Bill in “Night Shift.” Bill is the man distracted to uselessness by his own ideas like eliminating garbage
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Bad things happen at night. That’s the impression you get after watching “The Two Faces of January,” a nimble story of betrayal set in Greek cities and ruins
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For a 90-minute movie that spends all of its time in a field during daylight hours, you never hear any birds. The absence of avian chirping indicates purpose
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Before outlining a response to the recent movie adaptation of the musical “Into the Woods,” I want to draw out some general slips in some of the approaches to
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Classics & Well Aged
There are few movies that have arrested the public’s imagination and exposed a specific fear as thoroughly as Steven Spielberg’s 1975 motion picture, “Jaws.” Ask anyone who saw
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Unlike many epic motion pictures, Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah” zips forcefully through its narrative, an ambitious retelling of the ark and the great flood that delivers on biblical proportions—cubits,
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DVD Commentary Says
In the director’s commentary on James Gray’s “The Yards,” Gray is joined by Steven Soderbergh who’s there to keep Gray’s obnoxious ego-stroking in check. Though Gray agrees with
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It’s tempting to applaud director David Gordon Green’s newest motion picture, “Prince Avalanche,” just because it’s different from his recent heroic schlub tales like “Pineapple Express” or “Your
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On Cinema
While perusing a new book on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson (“The Master,” “There Will Be Blood”), I came across an observation on the relationship between fathers
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From the Mouth of
When the Los Angeles Film Critics Association awarded in 2013 French director Leos Carax “Best Foreign Language Film” of 2012 for his movie, “Holy Motors,” Carax sent this
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