Category Archives: movies

“Up in the Air”: post-awards season meditation

George Clooney’s entire approach to acting is to just be George Clooney.
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“Shutter Island”: trust no one

Like a latter day Torquemada, Scorsese keeps us firmly on the rack.
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“The Sun Behind The Clouds”: missed opportunity

The film leaves the audience with more questions.
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“Green Zone”: Greengrass & Damon do it again

The most sinister helicopters this side of “Apocalypse Now” scream overhead.
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The shame about Corey Haim

Booze, drugs, birds and brawls.
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Even Paul Bettany can’t save “Legion”

“Don’t do anything heroic,” she’s told. Don’t worry, she doesn’t.
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Conor McPherson & Ciarán Hinds discuss “The Eclipse”

"I really wanted the audience to be genuinely frightened and terrified by what they were seeing."
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“The Lovely Bones”: flawed, but gorgeous

As we know, death isn’t the end for Susie.
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James Purefoy shines in “Solomon Kane”

“I am the only devil here,” he roars.
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Gerald Johnson’s “Tony”: sympathetic, terrifying, British

There is a reason your parents told you to avoid London arcades and certain Soho back alleys
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