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Review of Inland Empire (2006)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 08 Dec 2012

Over time, though, with films such as Lost Highway and, to a lesser extent, Mulholland Drive, Lynch's movies became less personal and more…

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Review of Proof (2005)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 07 Dec 2012

But at its highest level of ambition, Proof fails to deliver…

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Review of Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 07 Dec 2012

It's never altogether clear why this visually blah and dramatically bland movie needed to be made at all (or why it wasn't made for television…

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Review of Rust and Bone (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 07 Dec 2012

Rust and Bone is made by filmmakers and actors who are capable of much more – and they know it…

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Review of Mission: Impossible (1996)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 01 Dec 2012

Some of the suspense set-pieces are impressive, but the picture would pack a greater wallop if it were stitched together more tightly and…

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Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 30 Nov 2012

The dialogue is sharp and so are the performances…

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Review of The Central Park Five (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 30 Nov 2012

What we do see, among much else that is damning, are archival NYPD videotapes of the boys being interrogated by detectives who press them to…

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Review of Venus (2006)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 28 Nov 2012

The screenplay is by Hanif Kureishi, who wrote The Mother for Michell and also scripted the classic My Beautiful Laundrette…

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Review of Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 23 Nov 2012

The drawn-out, lowbrow humor is either love it or hate it, so it may not be your bag, baby…

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Review of Hitchcock (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 23 Nov 2012

Hopkins has been fitted out prosthetically to resemble Hitchcock and he does a reasonably good job of impersonating him, but it's a foredoomed effort…

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Review of Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 Nov 2012

It's slick stuff, but Lawrence, in her most high-low, sad-comic turn yet, is remarkable…

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Review of Rise of the Guardians (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 Nov 2012

Too much of this movie, directed by Peter Ramsey, is more clamorous than inspired, and little kids might find parts of it too scarily intense…

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Review of Life of Pi (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 Nov 2012

Lee may, in the end, be too balanced a filmmaker to give Life of Pi the extra spin of lyric delirium it sorely needs…

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Review of The Star Chamber (1983)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 20 Nov 2012

Less original than the first Star Wars and less resonant than The Empire Strikes Back, but packed with fast-paced action and downright cuddly Ewoks…

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Review of Holy Motors (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 18 Nov 2012

This is the kind of it-can-mean-whatever-you-want-it-to-mean art film that I usually run from, but Carax is such a prodigiously gifted mesmerist…

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Review of Anna Karenina (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 16 Nov 2012

One of the many, many things wrong with Joe Wright's Anna Karenina, starring Keira Knightley as literature's most famous adulteress – take…

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Review of Interview (2007)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 13 Nov 2012

The back-and-forth between the performers is tensely choreographed, and Buscemi does a good job opening up the action, which mostly takes place…

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Review of Owning Mahowny (2003)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 13 Nov 2012

In the acting department, there's nobody on the current scene with more sheer talent --- or offbeat charisma -- than Philip Seymour Hoffman,…

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Review of Quantum of Solace (2008)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 10 Nov 2012

After all these years of surviving everything that has been thrown at him, James Bond is finally being undone by his own team…

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Review of Lincoln (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 09 Nov 2012

Whenever Jones is on screen, the film's energy level kicks up several notches, an indication, I think, that Spielberg otherwise overdoses on…

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