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October 2011

October 28, 2011
To say that Bruce Robinson’s The Rum Diary was an unfocused mess would be implying...
October 23, 2011
Garbo: The Spy is a sometimes surprising, sometimes amusing, always engaging documentary about a subject...
October 14, 2011
I don't say that it was a poorly conceived or executed horror film. It certainly...
October 13, 2011
I thought I was going to get away without having to write anything about Alex...
October 07, 2011
Real Steel is a hard film to not like, so about half way through I...
October 03, 2011
I don't normally say a lot about short films in these pages, but I thought...

September 2011

September 30, 2011
Does it really fall on me to be the dissenting voice on this film? Grimace....
September 19, 2011
One of the abiding mysteries of film criticism is why there are so few good...
September 16, 2011
Hannah is in an abusive relationship (and that's the understatement of the year), and the...
September 15, 2011
Ultimately Habemus Papam felt less like a blasphemy and more like a failure of imagination.
September 14, 2011
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have been so consistent and so dependable for the last fifteen...
September 11, 2011
Asghar Farhadi's A Separation is a riveting domestic drama that works equally well as a...

August 2011

August 21, 2011
One of the academically interesting consequences of the end of the cold war has been...
August 05, 2011
But rise they must, and rise they will, and when when the film remembers that...

July 2011

July 29, 2011
Ten years ago, Ken called The Mummy Returns the worst movie of 2001. A decade...
July 15, 2011
There is a difference, I suppose, between feeling genuine delight at a film and simply...
July 12, 2011
So, when I say I am over the moon with a film--I mean it. And...
July 03, 2011
Memento is both better and worse than I remember it (no pun intended).

June 2011

June 29, 2011
My advice: don't sleep for a day before you go and drink about two liters...
June 24, 2011
Bad Teacher has a lot of problems. Or, rather, it has one problem that could...
June 10, 2011
Many years ago, an exasperated student asked me "What is Pulp Fiction about?" After thinking...

May 2011

May 27, 2011
The Hangover Part II is either a profound and mournful examination of human nature and...
May 22, 2011
Normally, when I hate a movie, I can, at the very least, see what drew...
May 13, 2011
I'm not here complaining about the too pretty alcoholic, like Elizabeth Shue in Leaving Las...
May 06, 2011
True, I can't recall two consecutive minutes of the film where I was conscious of...
May 05, 2011
Miss Gulag tries hard to balance the story of a beauty pageant in a Siberian...
May 01, 2011
Tune in for a fascinating discussion about the differences between being assertive and being expressive,...

April 2011

April 23, 2011
I have spent the better part of a week since screening Barbara Kopple's Gun Fight...
April 20, 2011
The Grove: A Fight to Remember begins with, pretty much ends with, and is interspersed...
April 16, 2011
"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."
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