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Review of Lore (2012)

By Michael Z (241) on 13 Jan 2014

The direction of Lore is so cold and distant that moments that should make us cry out in agony elicit little more than a shrug. 1.5/4…

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Review of Rango (2011)

By Michael Z (241) on 13 Jan 2014

The film begins with promise, and its talking animals in the old west paradigm is uniquely rendered…

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Review of The Artist (2011)

By Michael Z (241) on 09 Jan 2014

Hazanavicius is in zen-like control of his tone, pace, and visual language in The Artist, an utterly charming almost-silent film, likely to…

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Review of The Tree of Life (2011)

By Michael Z (241) on 09 Jan 2014

Spiritually overwhelming and achingly beautiful, The Tree of Life is a challenging and ceaselessly fascinating film that places the squabbles…

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Review of Hugo (2011)

By Michael Z (241) on 08 Jan 2014

Gloriously made, a fitting homage to film making itself…

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Review of Hugo (2012)

By Michael Z (241) on 08 Jan 2014

Gloriously made, a fitting homage to film making itself…

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Review of The Hangover (2009)

By Michael Z (241) on 06 Jan 2014

Some of The Hangover's dialogue is admittedly funny, but the narrative is unimaginative and the jokes are hit-or-miss, (about 50-50, maybe…

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Review of Lincoln (2012)

By Michael Z (241) on 05 Jan 2014

Excellent movie, although they really shouldn't have called it Lincoln, as it was only about a small portion of his life…

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Review of West Side Story (1961)

By Michael Z (241) on 03 Jan 2014

Spellbinding from start-to-finish, West Side Story improves upon something that was already perfect with demi-god Robert Wise at the helm. 4/4…

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Review of Robot & Frank (2012)

By Michael Z (241) on 03 Jan 2014

Though it never tackles its questions of age, change, and memory at length, the screenplay offers up enough food for thought and Langella is…

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Review of The Intouchables (2011)

By Michael Z (241) on 03 Jan 2014

Cluzet and Sy's antithetical acting styles give this tale an enthralling, body/mind, Evil con Carne-style combined performance that absolutely…

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Review of How to Survive a Plague (2012)

By Michael Z (241) on 02 Jan 2014

How To Survive a Plague is another example of a documentary competently made, but desperately lacking fresh ideas…

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Review of 50/50 (2011)

By Michael Z (241) on 02 Jan 2014

This film is fantastic, it's not a laugh out loud movie but its original and just lovely to watch, maybe one of my favourite movies of all…

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Review of Headhunters (2011)

By Michael Z (241) on 02 Jan 2014

What a fun ride. The premise sounds like a euro heist movie but it's actually a Nordic Snatch…

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Review of The Impossible (2012)

By Michael Z (241) on 02 Jan 2014

McGregor, Watts, and Holland are able to breathe an uncommon amount of life and humanity into their mostly under-written characters, and power…

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Review of Prometheus (2012)

By Michael Z (241) on 01 Jan 2014

The film's achievement is in breathtakingly cinematizing the works of H.R. Giger…

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Review of Flight (2012)

By Michael Z (241) on 01 Jan 2014

This a film where Denzel Washington plays disgraced pilot Captain Whip Whittaker who is battling alcoholism…

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Review of Inherit the Wind (1960)

By Michael Z (241) on 31 Dec 2013

Kramer takes his unflinching source material and brings it to the big-screen faithfully and without compromise and Tracy moves mountains with…

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Review of Being John Malkovich (1999)

By Michael Z (241) on 31 Dec 2013

I guess you either love or hate this movie. I'm closer to hating it, that's for sure…

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Review of Rubber (2010)

By Michael Z (241) on 31 Dec 2013

Dupieux's feature debut about a homicidal car tire gets full points for originality, and the characterizations are hilarious and unmistakably…

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