film review
The war on film
May 7, 2014As the generation who fought in World War II dwindles in numbers, we are losing crucial first-hand testimony of the heroic struggles to defeat fascism.
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March movies that came in like a lamb, went out like a lamb
April 10, 2014I was eager to see "The Grand Budapest Hotel" because its creator has done such fine whimsical works before. Both of them raised whimsy to an art form, and so does this latest work.
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Families react to tragedy in “August: Osage County” and “Nebraska”
January 21, 2014By now, we should be convinced that Meryl Streep can do anything, but we've never seen her do ugly like this!
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“The Wolf of Wall Street”: “Mean Streets” director does “Ugly Street”
January 17, 2014It's an ugly, unforgivable movie of shameful practices and sociopathic tendencies. How else, of course, would you make a movie about Wall Street finance?
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Horror movies with a conscience?
October 31, 2013The movies that follow are fantasies based on real, immediate, contemporary threats.
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