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Affleck actually delivers

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The robbers work with a confident, brutal and bracing efficiency. And the same could be said of their director...

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ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT...

Not to sound crazy…


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It may be hard for some to pick the lowest moment in M. Night Shyamalan’s career. After all, this is a man who made...

The bright side of Mexico

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Talking on the phone with longtime record producer-turned-filmmaker Duncan Bridgeman, you get the feeling you’re talking to an extremely friendly, hippie version of Hunter S. Thompson...

Topple the patriarchy

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Sex in cinema is a complex thing. Depicting something so private, yet so routine, with taste and titillation at the same time has been...

Gilda Radner: Her voice and her writing

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There seems to be an endless fascination with the famed Saturday Night Live. While the merits of the weekly television show are continually debated...

To infinity, and beyond

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“Why am I alive?” she asks. “I have no idea,” he replies with a kind smile. Those are the final words of Toy Story 4, Disney/Pixar’s...

Fight

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‘Unacceptable Risk: Firefighters on the Front Lines of Climate Change...

Soulless cinema

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To Disney, from the desk of Mufasa: “Remember who you are.” The Lion King, Disney’s latest computer-generated remake, isn’t like the rest. Yes, the story...

‘Tooth Fairy’ is a cavity

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Dwayne Johnson tries to cash in on his "Game Plan"-proven kid appeal and Fox strains to find a little Disney-magic in "Tooth Fairy," a sugary blend of "Enchanted" and "Monsters, Inc." that will make you want to brush midway through it...

The Little Mermaid grows some teeth

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Thanks to Disney’s ability to cash-in on nostalgia, a tale as old as time with songs as old as rhyme is back in theaters...

A pretty smart idiot

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Floating through life on a personal high only partly provided by cannabis, the bearded, Crocs-sporting, semiprofessional farmer specializing in organics (or rather, “biodynamics”) is played, winningly, by Paul Rudd in an enjoyable shamble of a picture called Our ...