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Wuthering Heights will be released in the US later this year. This review is based on a screening at the Independent Film Festival Boston [...]
April 30, 2012
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Last week, I interviewed Jose Padilha, the Brazilian director of Bus 174 (a superlative documentary), Elite Squad 1 and 2, and the upcoming [...]
November 22, 2011
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A sensibility of cruelty, particularly towards women, pervades Lars von Trier’s filmography. In Breaking the Waves and Dancer in the [...]
November 20, 2011
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This week, I saw The Names of Love (silly and soapboxy) and Attack the Block (fun and soapboxy). These links made my life better: –There [...]
October 29, 2011
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Head over to BoxOffice Magazine to read my latest article about Margin Call, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, Up in the Air, [...]
October 25, 2011
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Watching America’s Next Top Model* the other day, I was flummoxed by a Cover Girl ad starring the 53-year-old Ellen DeGeneres. Isn’t [...]
October 23, 2011
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Is there a stupider or sappier movie plot than boy meets girl, girl dies of cancer, boy feels feelings and learns lessons? Nope, there really [...]
October 3, 2011
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I thought of two movies while watching Bridesmaids: Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up and Nicole Holofcener’s Friends with Money. The genetic [...]
June 10, 2011
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There’s just about a million things to like about Archer (FX). At its core, it’s a wish-fulfillment fantasy about the glamour and [...]
April 7, 2011
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Movies I’m Afraid Of is an occasional column in which I watch auteury or otherwise well-reviewed movies that I’ve avoided, sometimes for [...]
July 24, 2010
