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Review of Super 8 (1988)

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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Review of Submarine (2011)

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

While it's nowhere near as good as obvious influences like Rushmore or Harold & Maude, it also mixes in enough of Ayoade's own voice, and an…

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Review of The Tree of Life (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 04 Jun 2011

Just as The Tree of Life is the sort of movie we rarely see, the kind of thinking it provokes isn't the kind we engage in regularly…

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Review of Midnight in Paris (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 26 May 2011

Allen's self-directed criticism of nostalgia worshippers could still come off as hypocritical, but his inventive approach instead results in…

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Review of Incendies (2010)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 21 May 2011

Manufactures shocks that have purpose, and that resonate long after the anxious feelings the movie prompts have finally settled…

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Review of Thor (2011)

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

Kenneth Branagh and the team of writers who have brought the super-hero spin on the Norse god of thunder to the big screen decide to largely…

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Review of Potiche (1983)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 21 Apr 2011

A movie this thematically scattered, this unapologetically artificial, shouldn't be so enjoyable; but through the magical touch of cinematic…

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Review of The Conspirator (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 14 Apr 2011

Redford guides the film with the heaviest of hands, inserting over-dramatic visual cues at every turn, and reserving the clumsiest manipulations…

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Review of Your Highness (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 07 Apr 2011

How big the laughs are depends solely on your tastes, but there's little argument about whether they're dumb…

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Review of Hanna (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 07 Apr 2011

In Hanna, Joe Wright demonstrates a savant-like mastery of visual film language with a mercenary skill focused on making you feel exactly what…

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Review of Your Highness (2010)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 07 Apr 2011

How big the laughs are depends solely on your tastes, but there's little argument about whether they're dumb…

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Review of Insidious (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 31 Mar 2011

Wan knows that what we're paying for is to be scared deep in our bones, and that images glimpsed and hinted at are orders of magnitude more…

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Review of Source Code (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 31 Mar 2011

Jones' obvious affinity for a too-often neglected brand of idea-driven science fiction shines through…

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Review of Certified Copy (2010)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 25 Mar 2011

Certified Copy may represent a return of sorts for Kiarostami, to a film that more resembles traditional narrative storytelling -- but the…

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Review of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 25 Mar 2011

A film that will linger in your thoughts and dreams for a long time after waking from its intoxicating slumber…

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Review of I Saw the Devil (2010)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 18 Mar 2011

A film that on the surface seems like a bloodthirsty genre exercise, is really a powerful contemplation of our own malleable morality…

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Review of Red Riding Hood (2011)

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

It's a safe bet that if the volume of the laughter in the theater is amplified in direct proportion to how serious any given scene was obviously…

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Review of The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 04 Mar 2011

So enveloping is the romance at its core, and the inventiveness of the story, that it can be forgiven for its minor transgressions…

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Review of Kaboom (2010)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 25 Feb 2011

A vaguely Lynchian thriller with snarky comedic twists that works well -- right up until Araki lets all the air out with a lazily expository…

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Review of The Last Lions (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 18 Feb 2011

The story feels more like it originated on a screenwriter's laptop rather than a marsh in a remote corner of the Kalihari desert in Botswana,…

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