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Review of Savages (2012)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

An unabashedly lurid sun-and-surf ménage-à-trois cum drug-running caper, with touches of Jacobean tragedy for good measure…

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Review of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

It's a movie about finding purpose in life, late in life, that makes its point by first subjecting its characters to the most reductive grumpy-old-men/women…

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Review of The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

The Dark Knight Rises captures the spirit -- and cultural anxieties -- of the times…

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Review of The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

This umphundredth origin story of a nerdy outsider turned unlikely crime fighter is surprisingly enjoyable…

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Review of Your Highness (2010)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

Your Highness never sacrifices its cheerful, one-thing-after-another absurdity, or its inability to take itself even remotely seriously…

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Review of The Grey (2012)

By Laura Kern (82) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

In the case of The Grey, less would have decidedly been more…

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Review of Greenberg (2010)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

His sharpest observations are reserved for preternaturally intelligent, hyper-self-conscious outsiders whose existential crises are the failure…

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Review of Blue Valentine (2010)

By Laura Kern (82) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

Unlike Bergman's searing Scenes from a Marriage, which sustains itself for every one of its 299 devastating minutes, Blue Valentine begins…

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Review of Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

Stewart's Snow White, meanwhile, pouts her lips, bats her bedroom eyes, and scarcely seems to have more on her mind than who might take her…

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Review of All Good Things (2010)

By Laura Kern (82) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

David (Gosling) finds potential salvation in Katie (Kirsten Dunst), a free spirit so saintlike that she verges on caricature…

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Review of Rust and Bone (2012)

By Laura Kern (82) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

It's a film for people who believe that fallen souls aren't inevitably destined to become lost ones…

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Review of Source Code (2011)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

Jones…

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Review of Spider-Man (1977)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

This umphundredth origin story of a nerdy outsider turned unlikely crime fighter is surprisingly enjoyable…

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Review of Arthur (2011)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

If there's anything worse than a watered-down, big-screen sitcom, it's a watered-down, big-screen sitcom that gets all socially responsible…

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Review of Cold Weather (2010)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

Katz here shows himself to also be one of the few American directors of his generation (he is 29) with a strong sense of composition and movement,…

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Review of The Five-Year Engagement (2012)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

More often, the movie reduces everything to sitcom levels of tidiness and routine…

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Review of Sleeping Beauty (2011)

By Laura Kern (82) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

She spends much of the movie baring her fascinatingly underdeveloped body; her vagina is her temple…

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Review of The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

A much better version of this movie may exist somewhere in the editing-room blender, to be excavated by cine-archeologists of the future…

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Review of Dirty Wars (2013)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 16 Jun 2013

Scahill's voiceover has a grim relentlessness that ties everything together, while maintaining the pretense that the viewer is at his side…

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Review of The Execution of P (2009)

By Chris Chang (35) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 16 Jun 2013

Wild sound, aided by the spot-on punctuation of the score, turns the two-dimensional, often murky rectangle of the theater screen into a seemingly…

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