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By Karina Longworth
In We Need to Talk About Kevin, Tilda Swinton lives out an urban bohemian's worst nightmare. Forced to give up her independence (and downtown... More >>
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By Melissa Anderson
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island continues the weak Jules Verne-inspired adventures of 2008's Journey to the Center of the Earth. The production... More >>
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By Melissa Anderson
The Conquest is a brisk, fascinating chronicle of Nicolas Sarkozy. It time-shifts from May 6, 2007— the day he was both elected president... More >>
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By Karina Longworth
There's no question that the 2012 edition of the Sundance Film Festival was stuffed with films in some way touched by the psychological and... More >>
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By Melissa Anderson
This film follows two parallel story lines: one featuring a thoroughly insufferable little girl, the other a pleasingly grumpy middle-aged widow.... More >>
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By Aaron Hillis
Written by Max "Son of John" Landis, Chronicle playfully transcends its "Cloverfield meets Heroes" pitch. Brimming with passive anger over his... More >>
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By Brian Miller
The hero of the red-herring heist flick Man on a Ledge draws two reactions from the Manhattan throng beneath his 21st-floor perch on a midtown... More >>
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By Melissa Anderson
Fulfilling a mission that has consumed her for almost two decades, Glenn Close — as producer, cowriter, and lead — brings to the... More >>
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By Brian Miller
If you crash Liam Neeson and six disposable buddies in the frozen Alaskan wilderness, there is the expectation — nay, the requirement... More >>
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By Mark Holcomb
As bluntly humanist and free-ranging as its subject, this brisk take on the life of poet, sociologist, educator, psychologist, and general... More >>
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By Nick Pinkerton
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close not only has serious lit pedigree, based as it is on the sophomore novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, but also... More >>
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By Nick Pinkerton
Will there someday be a movie where the “one last job” goes off without a hitch?
Not Contraband, anyway, which begins with that... More >>
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By Karina Longworth
In the first scene of The Iron Lady, 80-something Margaret Thatcher is presented as a little old lady unfit for the fast-moving world outside her... More >>
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By Melissa Anderson
A holy hot mess of the sacred and the inane, Joyful Noise, about a gospel choir in Pacashau, Georgia, is Jesus for Gleeks. Less Bible-thumping... More >>
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By Karina Longworth
In Carnage posh pair Alan and Nancy (Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet) come to the home of wholesaler Michael (John C. Reilly) and crunchy author... More >>
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