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Babette’s Feast

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November is the great food month, so it only makes sense that the Trojan Movie House and Art Cinema is screening the great food...

Don’t shoot, shoot, shoot that thing at me

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Like many of my favorite scenes from The Accountant, the best one never actually happens. Having just watched hunky dreamboat/obvious-serial-killer accountant Christian Wolff (Ben...

Deathly boredom

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After six successful films in the Harry Potter franchise, the setup for the final showdown between Potter and his archenemy, Voldemort, should have been an easy winner. That’s why Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 proves such a disappointment...

Restless leg syndrome

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Feel free to call director Steven Soderbergh’s latest film (and potentially last, if you believe his retirement threats) a wacky mallard because it is one odd duck. If a Hitchcock movie took a Dateline NBC segment behind the art house theater and got it pregnant, ...

Stilled action

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Like passionless martial coitus or a zombie doing Zumba, Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass simply go through the motions with Jason Bourne, a...

Child’s tale come to life

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Know how to give mild G-rated fare a little something special? Cast Sandra Oh as an elementary school teacher who enjoys her orderly ways and who regards the Ramona half of Ramona and Beezus, taken from the venerable Beverly Cleary children’s books, as more ...

Faint pulse praise

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Warm is the ultimate ’tweener temperature. It’s not “hot” or “cold”; it rejects extreme or definitive categorization. It’s the thermometer equivalent of “meh.” So, it’s fitting that writer/director Jonathon Levine’s film sports the noncommittal word as the lead in ...

Game theory

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We’re only a couple months into the new year, but The Last of Us looks destined to be one of the most talked-about shows...

‘Life is no way to treat an animal.’

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The 42nd Denver Film Festival (DFF) concludes Nov. 10, but there are still plenty of movies to see. Here are three not to be missed. Directed...

Reel to reel | Week of July 25, 2013

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20 Feet From Stardom Director Morgan Neville shines a spotlight on the untold true story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres American Graffiti A group of friends about to head to ...

Barnabas, stay buried

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Solid cast helps ‘2012’ overcome flaws

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Nothing like a dandy evening's apocalypse to take the edge...