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Antebellum antiheroism

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Oh, Quentin Tarantino, you’ve really done it this time, haven’t you? Nobody really cared when you fantasized that Hitler didn’t end his reign of terror with one last murder (his own), placing therapeutic cinematic release into the hands of machine-gun toting Jews ...

Photographing philosophy

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Would you like to see my girlfriend?” Nicholas Vreeland asks. Considering that Vreeland has been a chaste Buddhist monk for the past 28 years, you can bet that this “girlfriend” is not of the typical kind. Indeed, it is not. Vreeland’s girlfriend is a camera...

The power of discussion

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The “road trip” might be the ultimate American movie trope — the vast expanse of the continental United States providing a vivid backdrop while the confines of a vehicle pressure-cook characters in the comedy and drama they need to discover the intricacies of ...

reel to reel | Week of Jan. 16

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American Hustle...

I can’t believe they went hare


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Here we go again, yet another CGI-animated children’s movie about the tyranny of unspoken, stereotypical racial beliefs that also acts as a metaphor for...

[Ir]replaceable you

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If Jean-Luc Godard was correct when he surmised, “The history of cinema is the story of men filming women,” then the French auteur Olivier Assayas’s latest, Clouds of Sils Maria, adds the crucial word missing from that epigraph: young...

This must be the place

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The stage is empty save for one microphone and a boom box. A man in a gray suit and an acoustic guitar walks up,...

Reel to reel | Week of Jan. 9

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The Act of Killing...

Ford v Ferrari

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There’s a scene halfway through Ford v Ferrari where Carrol Shelby (Matt Damon) takes Henry Ford II (Tracy Letts) for a spin on the test-track in...

Take a pass on ‘The Box’

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The object that gives this movie its title looks intriguing...

Throwback cinema

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Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams know how to craft a splendid story, and Super 8 was a joy to watch. There were great special effects, but the characters were also delightful and the story unfolded slowly and intriguingly...

Strength and decay: One strongman’s quest for the American dream

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New Jersey strongman Stan “Stanless Steel” Pleskun, the “Strongest Man in the World at Bending Steel,” and his struggle to build a career performing feats of strength are the subject of New York filmmaker Zach Levy’s award-winning documentary Strongman, which will ...