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[Review] 300: Rise of an Empire

This is what a copy of a copy looks like. It pretends to be equal to the original—and in some aspects proves to be exactly the same—yet arrives seven years afte...

[Review] The Wind Rises

Hayao Miyazaki, the great Japanese animator and founder of the prestigious Studio Ghibli, has teased retirement from feature films for over a decade. Now, that ...

[Review] The Bag Man

Once upon a time before Jason Blum's Blumhouse, there was Trimark Pictures. Launched by investors who also controlled video stores in 1988, Trimark was founded ...

[Review] Stalingrad

Harkening back to IMAX's origins, Stalingrad --Ā the highest-grossing Russian film of all-time -- makes full use of the format with an absolutely dazzling sound ...

[Review] Odd Thomas

It's August 14th in Pico Mundo, CA and the world is about to end. Well, not the world per se, but the community young Odd Thomas (Anton Yelchin) resides. Sort o...

[Review] Non-Stop

DeflectionĀ could have just as easily been another title forĀ Non-Stop,Ā because screenwriters John W. Richardson, Christopher Roach, and Ryan Engle (none of whom ...

[Review] In Secret

Strong performances help In Secret overcome what might have been a ā€œprestigeā€ retelling of Tyler Perry’s Confessions of a Marriage Counselor. Far from subtle, t...

[Review] 3 Days to Kill

Decades out from his leading man days,Ā Kevin CostnerĀ wears spiritual weariness like a second skin onscreen. Recently, that quality has been put to use in a seri...