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Review of Take Shelter (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 16 Oct 2011

Nichols is interested in more here than one man's sanity, and that coming storm -- real, dreamed, or hallucinated -- packs the metaphorical…

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Review of The Ides of March (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 09 Oct 2011

What the film may lack in profundity, it more than makes up for in well-crafted, smart thrills, with a first rate ensemble of performers…

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Review of The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 09 Oct 2011

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu is all about created perception, and Ujică brilliantly manages to craft a film that is not just about…

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Review of Love Crime (2010)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 01 Oct 2011

Every office scene feels so blatantly like an actor trying to create an approximation of what office work and banter feels like, that it amounts…

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Review of Moneyball (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 22 Sep 2011

For all the concentration on numbers, the film never loses sight of the fact that this is a game of people…

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Review of Drive (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 17 Sep 2011

Refn accomplishes the near impossible in modern movies: combining uncompromising art-house style with the real potential for mass-market accessibility,…

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Review of Contagion (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 12 Sep 2011

A horror film without a safety release valve, because the fears it plants in our brains aren't the kind that can be chased away by the light of day…

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Review of Circumstance (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 12 Sep 2011

When writer-director Maryam Keshavarz moves things out of the bedroom and stops self-consciously flirting with controversy, the film is provocative…

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Review of Amigo (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 05 Sep 2011

Sayles narrowly avoids the preachy direction in which Amigo pulls, largely because he isn't interested in making anyone into a punching bag…

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Review of The Guard (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 11 Aug 2011

While the film treads close to caricature at times, with standard-issue country cop vs…

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Review of The Guard (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 11 Aug 2011

While the film treads close to caricature at times, with standard-issue country cop vs…

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Review of Point Blank (2010)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 05 Aug 2011

This kind of lean and unadorned approached to the action-thriller is what's missing from most of the bloated American entries in the genre…

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Review of Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 05 Aug 2011

It's the images seen through Cardiff's lens that makes Cameraman such a joy to watch…

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Review of The Swell Season (2012)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 30 Jul 2011

Their observational style, over the course of many weeks of shooting over a couple of years, yields some intensely personal footage of the…

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Review of Life in a Day (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 30 Jul 2011

It's a remarkable achievement, creating something that is meaningful, sad, and often funny from the home movies of thousands of people around…

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Review of Project Nim (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 22 Jul 2011

It's the scab of decades-old tension between those involved in the experiment and its aftermath that Marsh wants to pick at; and it doesn't…

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Review of Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 22 Jul 2011

A film that, while never straying too far from comic book movie formula, still manages to be satisfying as both origin story and standalone adventure…

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Review of Terri (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 16 Jul 2011

Keeps just to the realistic side of quirk, finding moments of small revelation in subtle gestures…

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Review of The Trip (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 20 Jun 2011

The pacing is entirely different from the television version, much tighter and with a sometimes too-hurried drive to get to the next destination…

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Review of Super 8 (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 09 Jun 2011

While there's nothing wrong with looking back on 30-year-old Spielberg flicks, or 60-year-old sci-fi B-movies with rosy adoration, doing so…

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