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Sundance 2016: Most Anticipated
The Sundance Film Festival brings the most original storytellers together with the most adventurous audiences for its annual program of dramatic and documentary films, shorts, New Frontier films, installations, performances, panel discussions, and dynamic music events. Since 1985, hundreds of films launched at the Festival have gained critical recognition, received commercial distribution, and reached worldwide […] More
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News Round-Up: Rihanna joins ‘Valerian,’ Common fights ‘John Wick,’ and Canada gets ‘Star Wars’
Kristen Stewart and Chloe Sevigny to star in Lizzie Borden movie Following an award-winning turn in Clouds of Sia Maria, Kristen Stewart is set to team with Chloe Sevigny on a film about Lizzie Borden. Sevigny will play Borden, the strange and fragile woman who was infamously tried and acquitted for murdering her father and […] More
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Winning ‘American Ultra’ let’s its freak flag fly
As entertaining as it is flawed, ‘American Ultra’ is sure to divide audiences with its haphazard mix of ultra-violence and heartfelt romance. A gleefully-belligerent experiment in style that thumbs its nose at your expectations. More
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Jesse Eisenberg is a stoned, cold killer in first trailer for ‘American Ultra’
I don’t think this is a sequel to Adventureland. The first trailer for American Ultra is out and it stars Jesse Eisenberg as a stoner who finds out that he is a trained spy. The film also stars Kristen Stewart, Walton Goggins, Connie Britton, Bill Pullman, Topher Grace, and Tony Hale. Directed by Project X […] More
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‘Still Alice’ stares unflinchingly into the abyss
In the end, our bodies betray us. Most aren’t fortunate enough to go out on their own terms, but some are dealt a crueler fate than others. While most films treat Alzheimer’s disease with overwrought melodrama and naïveté, Still Alice stares unflinchingly into the abyss. Bolstered by a haunting performance from Julianne Moore and the focused storytelling of filmmakers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, this film has the raw power to simultaneously crush and rejuvenate your spirit. Painful, required viewing for life’s brutal training ground. More
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‘Camp X-Ray’ boasts solid performances and calibrated dramatics
Camp X-Ray Written and directed by Peter Sattler USA, 2014 Director Peter Sattler leads us down the path of purported empathy and compassion in his debut film, Camp X-Ray, only to come up short in depicting the relationship between a female soldier assigned to Guantanamo Bay and a man she befriends who has been imprisoned there […] More
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TIFF 2014: ‘Still Alice’ values performances above all else
Based on a popular novel by Lisa Genova, Still Alice is a weepy portrait of a linguistic professor, Dr. Alice Howland, battling early onset alzheimers shortly after turning 50 years old. Boasting a cast that includes Alec Baldwin, Kirsten Stewart, Kate Bosworth and the always electric Julianne Moore, above all else this is a film that leans on strong performances. This is not a film about script, ideas or even direction, it is about the intimacy of faces and the passion of performers. More
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TIFF 2014: ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’ a muddled misfire from Olivier Assayas
“Everything is hitting me at once,” announces Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche), just minutes into director Olivier Assayas’ English-language Clouds of Sils Maria. It’s a subtle line that quickly introduces us to the frazzled female headspace that Assayas and Binoche have jointly crafted in this Bergman-esque melodrama. More
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Cannes 2014: Assayas’ ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’ paints performance as Bergmanian identity
Olivier Assayas, especially with his previous Irma Vep, has had a keen awareness for this entity and how the actions on-set can serve as a sort of chamber drama in itself. With Clouds of Sils Maria, his vision behind this project becomes realized in the channel of Bergman by way of TMZ, a smartly composed dive into the role of celebrity culture and how it influences the films they inhabit. More
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‘Clouds of Sils Maria’, the new film from Olivier Assayas, releases its first trailer
Over the course of a career spanning over 35 years, French filmmaker Olivier Assayas has garnered critical acclaim from the international film community for a number of features, including Summer Hours, Avril Brisé, and Irma Vep. With his last feature coming in 2012, fans of Assayas were glad to learn that he was at work […] More
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‘Breaking Dawn — Part 2’ is more of the same lifeless story at the end of the ‘Twilight’ saga
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 Directed by Bill Condon Written by Melissa Rosenberg USA, 2012 You’ve come to this review with one goal in mind, no matter which camp you fall into. You’re a true believer, an obsessive “Twi-hard,” a name you wear with pride, spoiling for a fight with a critic […] More
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‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ is a film of arguably hollow pleasures, but it’s a commanding fantasy with a potent chilly atmosphere
Snow White and the Huntsman Written by Evan Daugherty, John Lee Hancock and Hossein Amini Directed by Rupert Sanders USA, 2012 The more – pardon the pun – grim of 2012’s two adaptations of the Grimm brothers’ classic tale isn’t quite as dark a revisionist reworking of the Snow White story as some in other […] More
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