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[Review] The Raven

After making a splash with his directorial debut, V for Vendetta,  James McTeigue's follow-up Ninja Assassin left much to be desired. With his third feature, Th...

[SXSW Review] Eating Alabama

A running theme in SXSW is urbanites returning to the land. Either that or as sometimes happens when you’re seeing 3-6 screenings a day, unconscious themes neve...

[SXSW Review] Fat Kid Rules the World

After Jacob Wysocki's shining performance in the title role of Terri, Azazel Jacobs’ story of an overweight loner’s unlikely friendship with his principal, he i...

[Review] Silent House

Silent House is the kind of movie that will likely divide views along a pretty solid line. However, whereas many films would divide people along the lines of "l...

[Review] Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

I'd be remiss if I didn't explain the two most pressing points about Salmon Fishing in the Yemen right up front. Yes, they do get salmon in the Yemen, and of co...

[Review] Footnote

Joseph Cedar's Footnote, winner of the Best Screenplay award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and one of four runners-up to Asghar Farhadi's A Separation for th...

[Review] John Carter

There is a whole lot going on in filmmaker Andrew Stanton's live-action feature debut John Carter, a very big budget adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' tale A ...

[Review] 21 Jump Street

Screenwriters Michael Bacall and Jonah Hill made the right move when they decided their 21 Jump Street would be a continuation of the original television series...

[Review] The Lorax

I loved The Land Before Time when I was a kid. It was a cute story with memorable characters in a world full of dinosaurs that utterly fascinated me. I remember...

[Review] Project X

I guess I just don't get it. Being the kid that would rather pick up an extra shift at my hourly job than attend an epic rager the likes no one has ever seen me...