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Fairy tale, retold

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Encased in a coffin, waiting to be brought back to life: That’s how Snow White spends a good portion of the folk story that bears her name. There’s no such downtime for the princess in the snappy retelling Mirror Mirror, a fractured fairy tale that occupies the ...

Home viewing: Existential cinema

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Comfort watching comes in all shapes in sizes. Sometimes it’s a chubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff. Other times it’s Gene Kelly dancing...

Mommy issues

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A mother is on trial for murdering her child. We know how, but not why. Nor does the mother. She does not deny the...

Poor 2013: Films in the coming year

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Listen, 2013, you look cool. You really do, with your new Superman movie and lack of Twilight...

Nothing left to lose

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It was one of those moments. The kind where two historical figures crossed paths briefly and a simple exchange carries meaning greater than one...

Portrait of the artist

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Even before Michael J. Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, he had a hard time sitting still. It was part of his go-getter attitude that...

Thanks, Morgan Freeman

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I’ll be honest, in the spirit of the honestly shameless heartwarmer Dolphin Tale. I saw it in a somewhat distracted, agitated state...

Big emotions in small packages

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All the best movies elicit our emotions — Roger Ebert famously called these movies “empathy machines” — but there is a fine line between...

Red, white and very blue

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I don’t know who Michael Moore is making movies for at this point. That’s not an indictment or even a suggestion that Where to Invade...

Scorsese comes up short with ‘Shutter Island’

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Dennis Lehane's character-packed but gimmicky novel "Shutter Island" earns a slightly less gimmicky film from Martin Scorsese, who makes this 1950s period piece his tribute to the psychological thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock...

Cinema on the short side

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In addition to the praise and accolades each year’s Oscar nominations bring, there’s a fair amount of teeth-gnashing and viewers crying foul. A stupid movie got...

‘It’s my sanctuary’

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At first blush, the synopsis of Dylan & Zoey sounds like a warm and uplifting tale of a rekindled connection. With only 24 hours...