Kathryn Bigelow’s first feature film since her award-winning effort, "The Hurt Locker," returns to the Middle East-- but this time its focus is less the front lines and more the back rooms, the CIA operatives hunting for Osama bin Laden.
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The Queen of Versailles (directed by Lauren Greenfield) is an excellent, fascinating, compelling documentary about money, greed, excess, and ultimately what all that does to a person.
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Does Ridley Scott's beautiful and engrossing return to sci-fi overcome its late-movie cliches? 'Prometheus' reviewed.
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It’s a sad fact that one day, we will live in a world without Hayao Miyazaki actively making movies. What we have in The Secret World of Arrietty is perhaps the next best thing to a film directed by Miyazaki. It’s a film written by Miyazaki and to some extent “planned” by him....
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Drive, starring the currently ubiquitous Ryan Gosling, is in part an homage to Walter Hill’s The Driver (1978) and quite an earnest endeavor: a post-modernist situation lacking most of the tropes and characteristics of the post-modern film.
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Green Lantern is the kind of superhero that could never feasibly have been rendered without digital effects. But should it have been rendered at all? Or is it more worthy than most of the reviews are making it out to be?
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The inevitable sequel to the crass comedy hit 'The Hangover: Part II' brings back Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis, the bachelor party trio from hell. But it’s just not clicking this time around.
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'Kings of Pastry' is a documentary that focuses on several pastry chefs who yearn for and compete for the Meilleur Ouvrier de France in the category of Pastry-making, an elite tradesperson award in France. Despite some clunkiness, on the whole it's a jewel.
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Rango, the new animated feature starring Johnny Depp, channels the Spaghetti Western, and is noteworthy for a design sense that's sharper and more distinct than the average animated film.
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With fiction wearing the garb of non-fiction and the growing scrutiny of documentaries as truth, the lines continue to blur between these two supposedly oppositional types of film.
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