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[Review] Micmacs

As with any film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Micmacs is a visual feast of color and spectacle that entertains and stuns the audience in fantastical style. The narrative and its eccentric characters are enthralling with each stellar performance delivered to stand out and impress....
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[Review] The Greatest

The Greatest, the directorial debut of screenwriter Shana Feste, does the incredible feat of being heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time, drawing the audience into this deeply moving film. With a strong cast including Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon, and Carey Mulligan, this film is a must-see....
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[Review] Clash of the Titans

Ironically, Clash of the Titans isn't far different from the original 1981 camp-fest. In fact, if it wasn't for the special effects, this remake would seem like something out of the eighties. It embraces its cheesiness....
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[Review] Kick-Ass

A review of 'Kick-Ass' starring Aaron Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Chloe Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and directed by Matthew Vaughn...
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[Review] Greenberg

Focus Features | USA | 107 mins There's never a moment in Noah Baumbach's new film in which we openly root for Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller), the film's...
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[Review] Hot Tub Time Machine

Certainly, by all accounts, the best film ever made about a hot tub time machine, this is a dumb, dirty, disastrously-made comic gem that finds a sloppy bal...
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[Review] How To Train Your Dragon

Shrek and Kung Fu Panda can step aside, Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders have delivered the best Dreamworks animation with How To Train Your Dragon. The story is one of a familiar mold, but the way it is delivered is impeccable....
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[Review] Chloe

I hold Atom Egoyan in high esteem above most filmmakers, for a deeply personal reason in that we share an Armenian heritage. As a filmmaker myself, I look up to him as both a role model and established auteur with an impressive body of work that has reflected themes of memory, identity and perception that I often connect with. ...
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[SXSW Review] Life 2.0

In his first feature-length documentary, director Jason Spingarn-Koff explores the growing virtual community of Second Life in Life 2.0. This virtual online world is accessed daily by hundreds of thousands of users from around the world, where they use avatars to assume alternate personas. Assuming his own avatar, Spingarn-Koff immerses himself in this alternate landscape, and reveals to us how quickly the lines between reality and virtual reality can be blurred....
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[Review] The Runaways

Luckily, 'The Runaways' has a terrific look to it, and good enough performances to draw you in, even when Sigismondi's script is pushing you away....