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Thor-sty for more

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There is a second Thor movie...

Brutality depicted

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New rule: You can watch Django Unchained as many times as you want, but you have to watch 12 Years a Slave at least once first...

Squash the spider, man!

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Spider-man’s new costume looks swell, and Emma Stone is charming. Those are the only two things about The Amazing Spider-Man 2 I didn’t hate with the fiery anger of a thousand exploding suns. Every other performance, every last bit of dialogue and plot, every ...

The movie year in review

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Paul Newman died, James Cameron came out of retirement and Quentin Tarantino...

Reel to reel | Week of June 13, 2013

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The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938...

Brave the new world

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The time has come to rewrite Jean-Luc Godard’s aphorism: “All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.” Writer/director/cinematographer Sean Baker doesn’t even need the gun — just two transgender actresses, three iPhone 5s with fancy lenses and East Hollywood at his...

Only in dreams

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There are two moments in Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood that take your breath away. The first is visual: A series of neon...

Metal Lurching

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To walk in to The Man with the Iron Fists by choice is to give up your right to bitch about story and character. This is a movie written and directed by The RZA, a member of the powerhouse rap group The Wu-Tang Clan; produced by Eli Roth, the guy who made Hostel; and...

Songs of Solomon

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For whatever reason, avant-garde art films have never gained the pop-culture cachet achieved by other realms of the art world...

A slice of ‘Ninja’

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The extraordinarily violent Ninja Assassin opens with a tough guy Yakuza gang leader having a tattoo inked on his back by a mysterious old man who talks about the four noble professions, the five rings, and other cliché Japanese cultural mumbo-jumbo. A henchman ...

Hello, GoodBye

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Bill Vielehr won’t be at this year’s BIFF, but his work will be...

Seduced by Paris

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I feel like the Parisians kind of get me,” says Gil Pender in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, an early clue to this character’s cluelessness...