Review: The We and the I
It’s funny to write this, but there are times that I think I understand young people less and less as I get older. ...
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Review: Reality
The alternate reading of the Pandora’s box myth is that hope is the worst possible thing that could have been left in that ...
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Review: In the House
There’s a great short story in Richard Yates’s Eleven Kinds of Loneliness called “Builders.” In it, one of the characters naively but sincerely ...
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Review: Identity Thief
Jason Bateman. I love his work in Arrested Development, and some of the secondary characters he has played because he can be funny ...
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Review: Side Effects
I have a very love-hate relationship with Stephen Soderbergh. He made my least favorite film of all time, Bubble, and my least favorite film ...
Review: Simon Killer
The title Simon Killer makes it seem like you’ll be watching a slasher movie or a serial killer movie. It recalls Talking Heads ...
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Review: Bullet to the Head
While Schwarzenegger has just recently returned to full blown action status Sylvester Stallone has been churning out action films at a steady clip. The increasingly muscular actor, who ...
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Sundance Review: The Gatekeepers
In Israel’s Shin Bet, I find an intelligence agency not so different from the CIA. In Israel’s religious zealots, I find an extremist ...
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Review: Parker
Jason Statham has got to stop playing Jason Statham. We know he can do it. He did it in the fantastic Bank Job. ...
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Review: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
I like it when a movie skews the usual perspective of a concept, genre, or an idea that the general public feels to ...
Review: Don Jon
Our rabid consumption of media informs our lives and habits as much as our upbringing. For Jon, that media obsession is porn. When ...
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Review: Upstream Color
Part of me wants to wait until I fully understand every facet of Upstream Color before I review it, but a larger part ...