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Mr. Nobody
Mr. Nobody is proof that just having all the right ingredients does not automatically make it a great...
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Zaytoun
Director Eran Riklis awkwardly sets a breezy odd-couple road trip movie under the dark cloud of the Israeli-Arab...
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Escape Plan
The recent revival of bombastic ’80s action flicks spearheaded by Sylvester Stallone hasn’t been as unwelcome as I...
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Machete Kills
When approaching my critique of Machete Kills—Robert Rodriguez‘s second entry into the eponymous character’s bloody B-movie saga that started...
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Interview: Danny Trejo of Machete Kills
Starting as the character “Uncle Machete” in the first Spy Kids movie in 2001, DIY director Robert Rodriguez and...
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On the Job
It’s genius in a wicked kind of way, really. Hire a hitman who’s already in prison. Get him...
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The Zigzag Kid (SFJFF Review)
When I was a kid, movies like Beauty and the Beast, The Sandlot, Toy Story, and Star Wars...
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Drug War
After a brief journey into romantic comedies and dramas, Johnnie To returns to the genre he knows best...
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Spring Breakers
When the news came out that Harmony Korine, director of Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy and Trash Humpers, was making...
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Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas is a big film by all definitions; it contains an inordinate amount of characters spread out...
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Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino continues his new fascination of blending period pieces with grindhouse revenge films in Django Unchained, a...
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Looper
I am always skeptic when it comes to most sci-fi action films but Looper is the rare exception...
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A Bittersweet Life
As I tracked back to the opening chapter of A Bittersweet Life, I paid attention to the wisdom...
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Motorway
Motorway by Pou-Soi Cheang is ferocious. Full of more testosterone than all 5 of the Fast and Furious films...
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Lawless
John Hillcoat’s Lawless, which feels more like it belongs on HBO instead of theatre screens, is a mediocre attempt...