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The Home Stretch
Before the final year-end crush begins (three weeks to go!), here's a new collection of links. First, I was recently profiled in the Fairfiled County Weekly: The Community Critic Out Now (Slant magazine):The King's Speech (Slant magazine)Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One (Slant magazine)The Next Three Days (Slant magazine)Unstoppable (Slant magazine)The Nutcracker in…
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I’m Back
Given my current workload, it's become frustratingly difficult to get these link collections up in any sort of timely fashion. Nonetheless, here's a few weeks' worth of reviews, from a variety of places. Coming Soon:The Romantics (Slant magazine)Legendary (Slant magazine)Lovely, Still (Slant magazine) Out Now:Machete (Slant magazine)A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (Slant…
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Me Vs. Blog Inactivity
No excuses for the lack of new link collections. Just new links. Coming Soon:Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Slant magazine)Animal Kingdom (Slant magazine) Out Now:The Other Guys (Slant magazine)Get Low (Slant magazine)Charlie St. Cloud (Slant magazine)Ramona and Beezus (Village Voice)The Parking Lot Movie (Village Voice)Mundo Alas (Village Voice)Spoken Word (Slant magazine)Helen (Slant magazine) Games:Naughty Bear…
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Dreaming Big
Since I was away for much of last week, I've only got one new review to post in this latest link collection. It's for Christopher Nolan's much-anticipated follow-up to The Dark Knight, Inception, which I found to be depressingly underwhelming. Out Now:Inception (Slant magazine)
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Twosome
Two quick review links for this Sunday night. Enjoy. Out Now:The Last Airbender (Slant magazine)[REC] 2 (Slant magazine)
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Monday Metal
Kicking the week off here with a new link collection, including my thoughts on a bunch of Tribeca Film Festival films as well as this past weekend's #1 film, Iron Man 2. Out Now:Iron Man 2 (Slant magazine)Casino Jack and the United States of Money (Slant magazine)Babies (Time Out New York)Multiple Sarcasms (Slant magazine)Mercy (Slant…
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Jennifer’s Body (2009): B
Snarky teen banter, ‘80s-era spring formal attire, overly clever and self-conscious pop culture-inflected quips and bon mots –Jennifer’s Body has screenwriter Diablo Cody’s fingerprints all over it. And yet while those signature elements are what largely made Juno an insufferable too-cute-for-school hair-puller, here, in the service of a campy horror-comedy about a sexpot possessed by…
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Festival Frenzy
The past few weeks have been spent covering not only new releases, but three separate Lincoln Center-sponsored film series – Film Comment Selects, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, and New Directors/New Films. As such, I've had time for little other than writing, most of which is now finally online – and posted here (or below). For…
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Shadow, Secret and Apocalypse
Three new reviews for this latest round-up post, which is skimpy by and large because a few recent reviews haven't been published yet. Nonetheless, Happy End (regardless of its awful international poster, at left) is a keeper. Out Now:The Secret of Kells (Slant magazine)Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss (Slant magazine) Film Comment Selects:Happy…
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The Road (2009): B+
Whereas Cormac McCarthy is an author to whom cynicism comes easy, director John Hillcoat (The Proposition) is a filmmaker whose doubt about mankind’s capacity for good comes laced with a tinge of humanistic hopefulness. And while McCarthy’s curt, hard prose best reflects his worldview’s bleakness, Hillcoat’s direction of the novelist’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road captures,…
