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out of 5
Ti
West 's 2005 horror film The Roost , his first feature, gained him some notoriety
as a throwback creature feature. It foreshadowed the path he'd go down as a
filmmaker -- a B horror movie with a 70s/80s visual style, a refreshing lack of
gloss - but it was ...
Drama
A SERIOUS MAN : **** out of 5. Why is this film different than all other films? The Coen brothers' newest is one of the most Jewish-centric American films I've seen in a long while. As a lapsed Jew who's gone through my own existential crises, I found it especially fascinating. The film, like ...
Comedy
A Serious Man
Based on David Pearce's novel , which is itself [loosely] based on the true story of Brian Clough's quite doomed 44-day stint as manager in 1974 of the then reigning champions of English football Leeds United, Damned United is both a sport film and a character study and succeeds pretty damned ...