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The Latest Hangover Punches Down
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May 23, 2013
The unlikeliest of all the Hangover trilogy's comic implausibilities might be its four pampered, rich-boy leads unironically calling themselves... More>>
Cannes: The Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis
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May 23, 2013
I. First, Something About the Badges (Then We'll Get to the Coens)
Someday I'm going to write a song and call it "Ballad of the Blue Badge." I... More>>
Cannes: Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra Is a Delightful Little Curio
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May 23, 2013
Ladies and gentlemen — anyone, really, who cares about his or her mug — step right up. According to a bit of advice proffered in one... More>>
The Sublime Dumb Play of Fast and Furious 6
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May 23, 2013
There's one key truth that separates the tank-topped gearheads of the Fast and Furious movies from the rest of us. Every problem these lugnuts... More>>
Cannes: In Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian), Benicio Del Toro Acts Again!
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May 23, 2013
In Arnaud Desplechin's English-language Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian), Benicio Del Toro — freed at last from the tyranny of... More>>
Cannes: Marion Cotillard Shines in James Gray's The Immigrant
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May 23, 2013
You know those two little lines you get in your forehead when you frown? The ones that, if you frown too much, stick there for good? The French... More>>
The New New Girl: Here's to Frances Ha, Not Quite a Real Person Yet
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May 23, 2013
New York is a cruel and beautiful place, just as 27 is a cruel and beautiful age. In Frances Ha, Greta Gerwig plays a woman who's feeling the... More>>
Fast & Furious & Elegant: Justin Lin and the Vulgar Auteurs
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May 23, 2013
Justin Lin may strike some as out of place in the pantheon of contemporary auteurs. The Taiwanese-born American filmmaker, best known for having... More>>
Cannes: Refn's Again with Ryan Gosling, but Only God Forgives Isn't in the Same League as Drive
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May 23, 2013
Expectations here in Cannes were high — or at least semi-high — for Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives, in which Kristin Scott... More>>
A Grand, Familiar Star Trek
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May 16, 2013
"Who are you?" pleads a doomed man as Benedict Cumberbatch looms into his first close-up in Star Trek Into Darkness. The answer is Khan. And... More>>
Lens Flares and the End of Film
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May 16, 2013
Daniel Mindel, A.S.C., is part of an ever-shrinking population: cinematographers who have yet to shoot a feature digitally. He acknowledges that... More>>
Cannes Diary: What Are the Women in Their Dresses Hoping For?
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May 16, 2013
Nearly everyone I know who has seen the official poster for the 66th Cannes Film Festival — a bird's-eye view of a kiss between a young... More>>
Olivier Assayas Thrills with Youth Gone Wild in Something in the Air
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May 16, 2013
Young people are lovely in ways they can't comprehend until years later. Yesterday's haircut straight out of Scooby-Doo becomes tomorrow's... More>>
Cannes: Heli Is Family Drama Set Against Mexico's Drug Wars
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May 16, 2013
One of the most exciting things about attending the Cannes Film Festival is being among the first people to see the films the world will be... More>>
Cannes: Not Even the Gifted Emma Watson Can Raise The Bling Ring
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May 16, 2013
The biggest puzzlement of these early days of the festival comes from Sofia Coppola, one of my favorite working directors. Until now, I have... More>>
Cannes: Young & Beautiful Is a Portrait of a 17-Year-Old French Call Girl
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May 16, 2013
François Ozon's Young & Beautiful, a portrait of a 17-year-old French call girl, is something else again. This is another story about a... More>>
The Great Gatsby: Sometimes Great, but Not Always Good
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May 09, 2013
There's a scene in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby in which Leonardo DiCaprio's hyper-rich, super-awkward Jay Gatsby takes it upon himself to... More>>
Matthew McConaughey Is Great, Again, in Mud
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May 09, 2013
Has anyone ever been so perfectly cast as Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused? Sculpted entirely of charisma and cheekbones yet still... More>>
R.I.P., Ray Harryhausen, Master of the Handmade Fantasy
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May 09, 2013
In the course of reviewing movies in the early 2000s, just as computer-generated special effects were becoming radically sophisticated and also... More>>
Want a Vague Idea of Midnight's Children? See the Movie!
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May 09, 2013
One of the most beguiling of the many stories all knotted up in Salman Rushdie's brilliant, baggy, exhausting 1981 novel Midnight's Children... More>>
Uwe Boll, Worst Director Alive, to Wall Street Execs: "Don't Think You're Safe"
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May 09, 2013
Uwe Boll will no longer fight you — at least, not with his fists. Often lambasted by critics as the worst of the worst, Boll once literally... More>>
Documentary Examines Venus and Serena's Rise from Their Upbringing in Southeast L.A.
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May 09, 2013
"It was 1991. I fly into L.A. I take a cab to Compton. On the phone, Richard [Williams] said, 'The only thing I guarantee you, you won't get... More>>
What Gatsby Gets Wrong: Ten Ways the New Movie Will Trip Up the Lazy Students of Tomorrow
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May 09, 2013
The only thing we English teachers hate more than Sparknotes is a high-quality, mostly faithful movie version of a book. Why would a student slog... More>>
For NYC Teens, The We and the I Goes Round and Round
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May 09, 2013
The title promises something rarefied and heady, but The We and the I, Michel Gondry's shaggy, roving social study, is grounded in home truth. If... More>>
Hollywood: Enough With the Father-Son Dramas, Already!
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May 09, 2013
In his new film, the social drama At Any Price, director and co-writer Ramin Bahrani examines how the transformation of food into intellectual... More>>
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