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Review of The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 22 Jan 2015

A brilliant and idealistic soul sacrificed at the altar of Barack Obama's war on intellectual and political transparency…

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Review of It's All So Quiet (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 09 Jan 2015

A film that wisely allows the audience to understand the character's motivations rather than having them telegraphed…

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Review of Valley of Saints (2012)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 09 Jan 2015

A film in which a dying lake becomes a symbol of India's environmental crisis as well as of Kashmiri hopes for freedom…

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Review of The Interview (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 25 Dec 2014

A film of monumental stupidity. If the Rand Corporation served as a consultant, no wonder American imperialism is messing up everywhere…

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Review of Maidan (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 12 Dec 2014

Canny cinema verite representation of the Euromaidan struggle, one that allows Ukrainians to be put into the foreground rather than geopolitical…

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Review of We Are the Giant (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 12 Dec 2014

Thrilling reminder that people are ready to die for their ideals in a period of history when corruption and brutality run rampant, starting…

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Review of Winter Sleep (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 10 Dec 2014

A work that rivals great literary masterpieces of years past, especially Chekhov's plays but with the added visual dimension of someone who…

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Review of The Imitation Game (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 05 Dec 2014

If you are interested, even slightly, in what distinguished Alan Turing, this is not the film for you…

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Review of The Imitation Game (1980)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 05 Dec 2014

If you are interested, even slightly, in what distinguished Alan Turing, this is not the film for you…

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Review of The Theory of Everything (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 05 Dec 2014

If you are interested, even slightly, in what distinguished Stephen Hawking, this is not the film for you…

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Review of Get On Up (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 05 Dec 2014

An utter failure to understand Brown's legacy as well as a misbegotten use of flashbacks like a time-machine gone haywire…

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Review of Portrait of Jason (1967)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 02 Dec 2014

A reminder that character is the heart of drama, even in a documentary made on a shoestring…

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Review of A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at the New York Times (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 28 Nov 2014

The real scandal at the NYT is not Jayson Blair's plagiarism but the paper of record's incestuous relationship to the military-industrial complex…

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Review of The Lego Movie (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 23 Nov 2014

Carries on in the grand Bob Clampett Warner Brothers Porky in Wackyland tradition. Surrealism for the six year old and the sixty year old…

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Review of The Salt of the Earth (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 14 Nov 2014

Quite simply the greatest film every made about the art of photography…

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Review of Rosewater (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 10 Nov 2014

So an audience needs to be persuaded that Ahmadinejad and his goons are evil…

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Review of Pelican Dreams (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 08 Nov 2014

If it is a question of the survival of the pelican and outfits like BP, I'll go with the pelican…

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Review of Interstellar (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 08 Nov 2014

Leaving aside the flaws as film (underdeveloped characters, etc.), it is worse as a message…

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Review of Point and Shoot (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 31 Oct 2014

Whatever motivation Matt VanDyke had for fighting in Libya, his example is far more laudable than what American fighting men do in the name…

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Review of Point and Shoot (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 31 Oct 2014

Whatever motivation Matt VanDyke had for fighting in Libya, his example is far more laudable than what American fighting men do in the name…

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