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Review of Frances Ha (2013)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 12 Jun 2013

Frances Ha makes a star out of Gerwig, and she's the kind of star we need: a goofy one we can feel tender about but never underestimate…

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Review of Man of Steel (2013)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 11 Jun 2013

Man of Steel is not a graceful movie, in form or subject. It is about things getting smashed. The finale is a month of Sept. 11ths…

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Review of The Hangover Part III (2013)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 22 May 2013

Three times the enervation...but Jeong has achieved the performance artist's dream of using nudity as a weapon and the immigrants' dream of…

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Review of Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 16 May 2013

The best tear-pumpers are the simplest: the passing mention of a starship called the USS Bradbury, or Kirk helplessly extending his arm to…

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Review of The Great Gatsby (2013)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 08 May 2013

He's introduced with a cloudburst of fireworks over his King Ludwig/Thomas Kincaid castle while Rhapsody in Blue crescendos; add in the zizzing…

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Review of Iron Man 3 (2013)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 02 May 2013

As always in director/co-writer Shane Black-and this goes back to his cantaloupe-testicled actioners of the 1980 like The Last Boy Scout: Why…

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Review of To the Wonder (2013)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 20 Apr 2013

If you have the ability to ignore Affleck, To the Wonder is a visual stunner, with a surprising transcendental enthusiasm for everything…

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Review of The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 20 Apr 2013

It's up to the actors to figure this out, and they try...but The Place Beyond the Pines displays a strange paternalistic streak…

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Review of Beyond the Hills (2012)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 08 Apr 2013

When the ill and unstable Alina returns to the monastery, just so she can be with her beloved, Beyond the Hills becomes a species of those…

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Review of Emperor (2012)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 19 Mar 2013

If you can't take this movie for history, what may it be taken as? As romance it's not believable…

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Review of This Is 40 (2012)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 19 Mar 2013

This Is 40 (40 minutes too long, that is) is getting at something, but it doesn't get there by 40 miles-not more than 40 people outside L.A…

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Review of Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 19 Mar 2013

Indulges Cheneyian fantasies complete with the bad-movie scene of the prisoner's defiance: You're just a garbage man in the corporation, shouts…

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Review of Barbara (2012)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 19 Mar 2013

An intelligent, mature love triangle...It also functions as a tense, rarefied thriller about escape from a police state, as well the kind of…

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Review of Cosmopolis (2012)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 23 Aug 2012

Cosmopolis is something like the anti-matter version of Atlas Shrugged…

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Review of Drag Me to Hell (2009)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 28 May 2009

Drag Me To Hell is a startler, and yet one doesn't get irritated by the jump-ups…

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Review of Around the Bay (2008)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 12 Feb 2009

This remarkably talented newcomer make a compelling story out of well-chosen images and unsaid, unheard or overheard words…

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Review of Corpse Bride (2005)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 26 Sep 2005

In a movie in which the color is muted as close to black-and-white as possible, this bride is radiantly blue…

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Review of Stand & Deliver (2001)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 26 Sep 2005

The greatest John G. Avildsen movie John G. Avidlsen never made. Olmos is far more understated than the average tough-teacher is in this kind of film…

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Review of Keane (2004)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 26 Sep 2005

There's more than a few spots where the improvisation [in Keane] spins out of control…

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Review of Stand and Deliver (1988)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 26 Sep 2005

The greatest John G. Avildsen movie John G. Avidlsen never made. Olmos is far more understated than the average tough-teacher is in this kind of film…

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