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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>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
At Any Price Makes Good Drama of Bad Seeds
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May 09, 2013
Farm films blow up human drama to mythic, big-sky terms in which the world itself is represented by a character's land, hard-earned and easily... More>>
For At Any Price Director Ramin Bahrani, Bigger Films Demand Bigger Targets
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May 09, 2013
Responding to the uproar in April over the passage — and President Obama's signage — of the so-called "Monsanto Protection Act," the... More>>
In the House Takes the Thriller Apart to Build it Anew
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May 09, 2013
The supreme testament to Hitchcock is that no matter how many years pass, his work exerts an ever-stronger influence. Just last month came Park... More>>
Iron Man 3: Shtick and Explosions for Robert Downey Jr.
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May 02, 2013
Where has Robert Downey Jr. gone? There's no doubt he's the star of Iron Man 3; he sprints through the picture like a neurotic panther. And yet... More>>
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