Oscars 2016: Joy
Another feel-good slice of petit bourgeois apple pie, filled with boisterous, larger-than-life characters with poor fashion sense, and it’s just about as conservative as a Frank Capra film
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13 Films You Can Avoid This Autumn
a selection of movies you can safely wait to show up on cable one rainy afternoon, or can watch if you’re stuck on a plane.
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Based on the trailer, this looks to be yet another of David O. Russell’s loose, shaggy period dramas about the American Dream.
Read more "Joy (trailer review)"Meet Emma Stone … Asian
A quick glance at Stone’s porcelain skin, ginger hair and dazzling blue eyes will affirm what you’ve already suspected: Stone is about as Asian as Mickey Rooney in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”.
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American Sniper is well-acted, adequately-made, and possibly well-intentioned, but that doesn’t necessarily make it a great film.
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Amy Adams is the real standout. Because of her looks, her personality, and the sorts of plucky role she usually plays, I have always thought of her as Nicole Kidman’s perky, sexy little sister. But here she is given the chance to create a real character not soon forgotten
Read more "Believing What You Want To Believe. American Hustle (DVD Review)"The Hangover Part III (DVD review)
I seem to recall that I quite enjoyed The Hangover, and that I watched The Hangover Part II without smiling once. The third – and thankfully final – part in the comedy series falls somewhere between the first two. It goes back to Las Vegas, perhaps to recapture some of the energy of the first […]
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For all its talk of medication and therapy, the film still avoids, however, the problem of living in an over-medicated society, a problem that Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects deals with up front.
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I only rented The Place Beyond the Pines because I was getting sick of seeing the trailer, which seems to have been tagged on to every DVD I’ve watched this year. And based upon that trailer, I really wasn’t expecting much. It looked to me like it was a crime-film straining too hard for meaning: I was wrong about that. I was unprepared, therefore, for just how good it is and how hard it finally hits home.
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The Fluff Is Raging 