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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Horse Sense: WAR HORSE

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Steven Spielberg’s War Horse starts as a pastoral, an ode to living off the land that’s soured under bad economics.  In the opening shots...
Monday, December 26, 2011

Lions, Tigers, and Bears: WE BOUGHT A ZOO

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Cameron Crowe is the kind of writer-director who can manufacture moments so broad and sentimental, then deploy them with such to...
Friday, December 23, 2011

Law & Order Swedish Victims Unit: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

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There are now three versions of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , a cold case mystery that introduces the character of Lisbeth Salander, ...

He Can't Help Himself: SHAME

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It would be a mistake to call Shame ’s Brandon Sullivan a hedonist. His life is controlled and partitioned, a place for everything and ev...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Good Old-Fashioned Derring-do: THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN

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With The Adventures of Tintin , Steven Spielberg, one of our greatest and most popular filmmakers working today, is experimentin...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Ohana Trouble: THE DESCENDANTS

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Until now, writer-director Alexander Payne hadn’t made a movie since 2004’s fine comic drama Sideways . (Though his short in the 2007 an...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

End of Her World: MELANCHOLIA

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Danish provocateur Lars von Trier’s Melancholia opens with striking slow motion shots of a metaphorical nature. A bride (Kirste...
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