Film Reviews
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Shame (Steve McQueen)
After tackling the IRA with their first collaboration Hunger, Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender continue to embrace the controversial by looking at sex addiction. But is Shame anything more than gloomy, big budget erotica?
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The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)
Beginning with the tale of Nietzsche’s descent into madness, the film is Tarr’s heavy valediction as a filmmaker that is reinforced by minimal dialogue and lengthy takes in an ostensible real-time degeneration.
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The Descendants (Alexander Payne)
Alexander Payne re-asserts himself as one of the greats with a humane drama generally lacking in acerbic satire.
George Booker admires... -
Young Adult (Jason Reitman)
From the creative minds that gave us Juno! Uh-oh.
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Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
Evocative of his 1979 masterpiece Manhattan, the film echoes the same fondness for milieu and nostalgic definition of place but drives into the realm of low fantasy with generally successful results.
Grant Phipps discovers... -
Tabloid (Errol Morris)
An exercise in discerning fiction from truth, the film presents Joyce McKinney as the perfect tabloid production, whose public affairs began in 1977 and continue to this day.
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Melancholia (Lars Von Trier)
Lars Von Trier, European cinema's arch-provocateur, has finally had enough and, in a fit of pique, has decided to destroy everything including, perhaps, his career. Melancholia is his art-house take on the disaster movie, which, as a film pitch sounds... well... disastrous. Can the notoriously divisive director win over his critics?
It's the end of the world as we know it, and Mark Davison feels fine... -
We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)
Tilda Swinton stars in the adaptation of Lionel Shriver's Orange Prize-winning novel about a boy who seems beyond all hope.
Joe Gastineau supplies the words... -
Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
The Post-Contemporary Western deftly deviates from archetypes, primarily the nature of good and evil, the role of women, and the definable hero.
Grant Phipps saddles up for... -
Red State (Kevin Smith)
Forget the hate that's plagued it thus far, Red State is a fun gunshot of a flick.
Luredo Marbery digs on...
