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Leo and Sofya Tolstoy were collaborators, lovers, and formidable adversaries, and theirs was a story so richly dramatic that Tolstoy pilfered liberally from it in War and Peace, Anna Karenina , and The Kreutzer Sonata , among other works. With The Last Station , writer-director Michael ...
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Fans of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road —and it’s surprising there are so many, considering it’s such a sparse, bleakly unsettling work—will surely find much to like in John Hillcoat’s screen version. . . . I walked out of The Road to find that the functioning, modern spaces we inhabit looked ...
Drama
The Road
As mocked as the original film was by critics, Twilight ’s often hysterical performances and over-the-top cinematography (the whole movie is blue, much of it shot with Dutch tilts) are bold and exciting in their way, and there was something satisfying about knowing that women were placed in ...
Drama
New Moon
Twilight
Bella
"Words are very important for me. It’s the best instrument for communication. I hate for example this kind of tele-reality, reality programs, with people that perhaps don’t talk but then they talk in front of a camera. It’s very interesting as a director that people talk so openly in front of ...
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Pedro Almodovar
As it happens, much of Herzog’s film is indeed “awesome” as campy, seedy, awkward entertainment. It also occasionally transcends those quotes. But art so fleetingly glimpsed only demonstrates how hard it is to make of low-rent trash something truly sublime. Even though this is Herzog and ...
Drama
Nicolas Cage
Michael Shannon's perpetual watchability makes it go down easy. As in Shotgun Stories , he doesn't say much, letting his pinched, all-brow expressions and lanky frame express both his intelligence and strength. His Rosow drinks, you realize, not only because his wife's dead, but to dull the ...
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The Missing Person
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Financed by the state-owned China Film Group Corporation
to the tune of $80 million, John Woo's Red...
Cliff is the latest “most expensive Chinese film ever made,” following quickly upon such prior contenders as Curse of the Golden Flower and Hero . ...
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Red Cliff
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The baseness and comprehensibility of the human is inseparable from the often inhuman exercise of power, and it is the paradoxical, profoundly incomprehensible polarity of this truth which Sokurov’s deeply strange films address. To mock and degrade the myth of power, particularly when it is ...
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There are few American filmmakers currently working who are more fastidious about composition than Wes Anderson, and in a sense he has been making animated films all along. Quick descriptions can’t adequately convey the madcap breathlessness of Fantastic Mr. Fox . It’s brief at 88 minutes, but ...
Animation
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson
None of the humor derives from history or reality; it is merely random, dyspeptic gag writing. And yet most of these objections might not have arisen had the characters, situations, and jokes in question been written as if in a reality-bending modern British TV sitcom like Father Ted or Simon ...
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If there’s ever been a scene that requires no embellishment in the translation from page to screen, it’s Ebenezer Scrooge’s meeting with the melancholy crumble of bones that were once Jacob Marley. Yet in Robert Zemeckis’s motion-capture update of A Christmas Carol , this most famous of ...
Adventure
A Christmas Carol
If Southland Tales proved Richard Kelly's political sense simpleminded, The Box shows his grasp of ethical reasoning is most certainly remedial. Even worse, his structuring shows just how little interest he has in the ethical quandary the arrival of the box poses; Kelly just can’t wait to get ...
Horror
The Box
Richard Kelly
La Danse is less about the development of certain specific movements executed by the dancers than it is about the process of development itself. The emphasis is on the interplay between the able-bodied dancers and the usually older choreographers, more carefully attuned to the nuances of ...
