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Review of The Long Day Closes (1992)

By Nick O (721) on 07 Feb 2014

Give or take an R, it'd be easy to relate Terence Davies with Terrence Malick…

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Review of Blancanieves (2012)

By Nick O (721) on 05 Feb 2014

Interesting take on Snow White, basically a silent, Spanish-themed version…

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Review of RoboCop (1987)

By Nick O (721) on 04 Feb 2014

REWATCH: The future didn't have flying cars, or time travel. Instead it had widespread poverty. Crime small-scale and corporate at large…

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Review of The Impossible (2012)

By Nick O (721) on 29 Jan 2014

REWATCH: I was listening to Marc Maron's WTF interview with Harry Dean Stanton the other day and when asked what the best thing is a director…

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Review of Dead Man (1995)

By Nick O (721) on 27 Jan 2014

Another black and white film by Jim Jarmusch that is an original character study involving the stories protagonist William Blake played by…

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Review of Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

By Nick O (721) on 25 Jan 2014

REWATCH: I'd call Punch-Drunk Love an incomparable masterpiece if only every film Paul Thomas Anderson has made since Boogie Nights (can you…

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Review of Malcolm X (1992)

By Nick O (721) on 23 Jan 2014

Stagnant performance and igniting direction…

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Review of Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

By Nick O (721) on 21 Jan 2014

Die Hard without the humor, characters that can't rise above paper-thin, a nonsensical conflict and a star with as much acting range and shitty…

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Review of Fruitvale Station (2013)

By Nick O (721) on 21 Jan 2014

I look inside the last day of a young man killed by a BART cop in Oakland in the wee hours of New Years Day 2009…

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Review of White House Down (2013)

By Nick O (721) on 21 Jan 2014

Maybe it was my bottom-of-the-Sarlacc Pitt-level expectations. Or maybe it was just Channing Tatum in a tank top…

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Review of Upstream Color (2013)

By Nick O (721) on 19 Jan 2014

Shane Carruth does sci-fi as science fair project: when it works, we're wowed…

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Review of Stories We Tell (2012)

By Nick O (721) on 19 Jan 2014

It might seem like a filmmaker turning the camera on her own family members would be overly-self-indulgent, but in this case, not at all…

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Review of At Berkeley (2013)

By Nick O (721) on 14 Jan 2014

I'm quick to jump the gun that in terms of objective AND subjective quality At Berkeley is the Tree of Life of documentaries, but I think it's…

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Review of Prince Avalanche (2013)

By Nick O (721) on 14 Jan 2014

I'll be blunt -- rolls up -- I haven't seen a lick -- licks paper (I'm sorry, it was right there) -- of David Gordon Green's much-acclaimed…

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Review of I'm So Excited! (2013)

By Nick O (721) on 10 Jan 2014

It's got a few too many pointless digressions that keep the film from being as enjoyable as I hoped, but Almodovar's intentions were clearly…

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Review of Our Children (2012)

By Nick O (721) on 08 Jan 2014

It's an all too common trope for a movie to begin with its end before flashing back and building from the story's initial outset of events…

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Review of Our Children (2012)

By Nick O (721) on 08 Jan 2014

It's an all too common trope for a movie to begin with its end before flashing back and building from the story's initial outset of events…

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Review of Spring Breakers (2013)

By Nick O (721) on 07 Jan 2014

The movie kinda too long some parts very lame and annoying ..but James Franco great acting ..soundtrack sweet..nice music for the party generation…

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Review of Short Term 12 (2013)

By Nick O (721) on 06 Jan 2014

I had heard a lot about this movie because of how good they said it was and also about how they praised Brie Larson's performance…

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Review of Safety Last! (1923)

By Nick O (721) on 03 Jan 2014

I've seen Keaton and Chaplin (granted, not as much as I should have of either) but I've never seen any work of Harold Lloyd, so I'm not sure…

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