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FILTER RESULTS ►Film Review: Paradise: Love (Dir. Ulrich Seidl)
Paradise: Love
Dir. Ulrich Seidl
[Strand Releasing; 2013]
by Alex Peterson
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The first of a triptych of films from Austrian director Ulrich Seidl about three women from the same family who each undergo an emotionally trying, largely...Show More Summary
Film Review: Trash Dance (Dir. Andrew Garrison)
Trash Dance
Dir. Andrew Garrison
[PBS International; 2013]
by Alex Peterson
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Andrew Garrison’s Trash Dance resembles the kind of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it documentary that will briefly highlight one of the many strange cultural...Show More Summary
Film Review: Café de Flore (Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée)
Café de Flore Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée [Films Distribution; 2012] by Alex Peterson Rating: The unimaginably difficult state of being in love with two people — one you know is your true love but have given up out of childish naïveté; one...Show More Summary
Film Review: Gottfried Helnwein and The Dreaming Child (Dir. Lisa Kirk Colburn)
Gottfried Helnwein and The Dreaming Child
Dir. Lisa Kirk Colburn
[First Run Features; 2012]
by Alex Peterson
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In Tel Aviv, Israel, there is large, gorgeous opera house inside of which challenging productions are frequently staged. Show More Summary
Film Review: The Silver Linings Playbook (Dir. David O. Russell)
The Silver Linings Playbook
Dir. David O. Russell
[The Weinstein Company; 2012]
by Alex Peterson
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David O. Russell is one of the best directors in Hollywood insofar as no one makes more out of questionable material — hackneyed...Show More Summary
Film Review: Lincoln (Dir. Steven Spielberg)
Lincoln
Dir. Steven Spielberg
[Dreamworks Studios; 2012]
by Alex Peterson
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There’s something to be said for a movie that insists on giving two and a half hours of screen time to highly intelligent men speaking in barbed, cogent, eloquent language. Show More Summary
Film Review: Yogawoman (Dir. Saraswati Clere, Kate McIntyre Clere)
Yogawoman
Dir. Saraswati Clere, Kate McIntyre Clere
[Shadow Distribution; 2012]
by Alex Peterson
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There’s a scene toward the end of Paul Thomas Anderson’s recent The Master wherein Joaquin Phoenix’s Freddie Quell asks one of the...Show More Summary
Film Review: Argo (Dir. Ben Affleck)
Argo
Dir. Ben Affleck
[Warner Bros.; 2012]
by Alex Peterson
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As Ben Affleck has faded as one of the major American movie stars, he has quietly risen as one of the country’s most reliable genre directors. With Gone Baby Gone, The...Show More Summary
Film Review: In My Mother's Arms (Dir. Atea al-Daradji, Mohamed al-Daradji)
In My Mother's Arms
Dir. Atea al-Daradji, Mohamed al-Daradji
[Human Film; 2012]
by Alex Peterson
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It’s not easy to write about In My Mother’s Arms — an intensely direct, simple, and affecting documentary — without sounding like I’m a bleeding heart. Show More Summary
Film Review: Liberal Arts (Dir. Josh Radnor)
Liberal Arts
Dir. Josh Radnor
[IFC Films; 2012]
by Alex Peterson
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Liberal Arts, a movie about a well-off, well-educated guy, avoids the pitfall of making too much out of the problems of well-off, well-educated people by making...Show More Summary
Film Review: Six Million and One (Dir. David Fisher)
Six Million and One
Dir. David Fisher
[Fisher Features; 2012]
by Alex Peterson
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There are no precise figures for the number of Jews who made it out of German death camps during World War II, only guesses and broad estimations; it was far too rare an occurrence for there to be any hard data. Show More Summary
Film Review: Trouble with the Curve (Dir. Robert Lorenz)
Trouble with the Curve
Dir. Robert Lorenz
[Warner Bros.; 2012]
by Alex Peterson
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Recent political events have suggested that Clint Eastwood’s grumbling hubris may extend farther than the crabby-old-guy persona he’s adopted inShow More Summary
Film Review: My Uncle Rafael (Dir. David Fusco)
My Uncle Rafael
Dir. David Fusco
[Rocky Mountain Pictures; 2012]
by Alex Peterson
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The first striking things about My Uncle Rafael is that it’s lit and edited very amateurishly, like a student film, with the kind of rhythm that...Show More Summary
Film Review: Cosmopolis (Dir. David Cronenberg)
Cosmopolis
Dir. David Cronenberg
[Entertainment One; 2012]
by Alex Peterson
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David Cronenberg has adapted a book by Don DeLillo nearly word-for-word, scene-for-scene. This is one of the most exciting propositions of film 2012, because it posits the potentially perfect meeting of two strangely similar artists. Show More Summary
Film Review: ParaNorman (Dir. Sam Fell, Chris Butler)
ParaNorman
Dir. Sam Fell, Chris Butler
[Laika; 2012]
by Alex Peterson
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Based on both the characters in the movie and the device-carrying kids I sat next to while I watched it, it’s pretty clear that ParaNorman is aimed at a specific...Show More Summary
Film Review: The Campaign (Dir. Jay Roach)
The Campaign
Dir. Jay Roach
[Warner Bros.; 2012]
by Alex Peterson
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Will Ferrell has never had trouble finding comedy in incompetent politicians talking themselves into trouble by going off-script. So far he’s seemed content to...Show More Summary
Film Review: The Chilean Building (Dir. Macarena Aguiló )
The Chilean Building
Dir. Macarena Aguiló
[Magic Lantern Films; 2012]
by Alex Peterson
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The Chilean Building is an extremely personal documentary examining a group of Chilean dissidents’ decision to return to their country in the late 70s after after being exiled to Paris during the oppressive rule of dictator Augusto Pinochet. Show More Summary
Film Review: The Bourne Legacy (Dir. Tony Gilroy)
The Bourne Legacy
Dir. Tony Gilroy
[Universal Pictures; 2012]
by Alex Peterson
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Nothing much is going on in The Bourne Legacy, but it’s pleasantly distracting, which means it hits its target since the Bourne series has always been aces at dressing up action spy films as something more stoic and serious than what they really are. Show More Summary
Film Review: Unforgivable (Dir. André Téchiné)
Unforgivable
Dir. André Téchiné
[Strand Releasing; 2012]
by Alex Peterson
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Unforgivable features an aging lesbian private detective with a violent son who can’t stay out of jail. Also, a former model who now sells real estate and falls for a 70-year-old novelist when he asks her to move with him to a private island across the bay from Venice. Show More Summary
Film Review: We Women Warriors (Dir. Nicole Karsin)
We Women Warriors
Dir. Nicole Karsin
[Todos los Pueblos Productions; 2012]
by Alex Peterson
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Three humble Colombian women — each from an indigenous tribe whose origins pre-date Colombia’s Spanish colonization — who have elbowed...Show More Summary
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