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An aquatic beauty and the beast

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There’s nothing like a good fairy tale, especially one with teeth — and Mexican writer/producer/director Guillermo del Toro has plenty of teeth to go...

One for something and all for nothing

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Terry Gilliam’s outlook of the future is bleak. It always has been. The director of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, 12 Monkeys and The Fisher King made a name for himself as a director par excellence with 1986’s dystopian and paranoid Brazil, a movie that many count as...

Quirking on something different

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To alter a phrase from Twain — who probably won’t mind because he’s dead — writer/ director Wes Anderson repeated history until he figured out how to rhyme. Barring a brief foray into stop-motion animation, Anderson’s oeuvre for the last decade redundantly hit the ...

Wildly contradictory and totally true

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Practically everyone knows of Tonya Harding, the figure skater connected with kneecapping her competitor, Nancy Kerrigan, prior to the 1994 Winter Olympics. But how...

A solid but soulless adaptation

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Sleek and, until a stupidly violent climax, very entertaining, Unknown is the opposite of Memento. It’s about a man who knows who he is but everybody around him has forgotten, or thinks he’s delusional, or lying...

‘Armored’: Terrible tough guys

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Ever wonder what kind of guy drives an armored car full of cash? Yeah, I never did either, but that’s the environment that Armored presents us with: a bunch of edgy, tough-guy losers who somehow have ended up as employees of Eagle Shield Security...

Home viewing: ‘The Lady Eve’

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Let us be crooked but never common,” Colonel Harrington urges his daughter, Jean. He’s played by Charles Coburn, grand in every meaning of the...

In praise of the shared experience

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The theatrical release of Roma is the cinematographic event of the year. Initially acquired by Netflix for their streaming service, Roma’s visual and aural...

A match made in heaven

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Though the name Emily Dickinson may be well known — most can identify her as one of the greatest American poets — not many...

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...

Polanski’s ‘Ghost Writer’ not his best

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Little things can take you out of Roman Polanski's...

A team effort

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It takes an army to make a movie. Behind the writers, directors, producers and actors, hundreds of unseen hands toil endlessly to set the...