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[Review] Pariah

If Lee Daniels' Precious made for a heightened, melodramatic, and mostly satisfying expression of the external trials -- poverty, an abusive mother, a runaw...

[Review] In the Land of Blood and Honey

In the Land of Blood and Honey marks a violent, promising directorial debut for mega-star Angelina Jolie. This is a hard-R look at a hopeful relationship th...

[Review] War Horse

Thirteen years since Saving Private Ryan and six since his last 'serious' work in Munich, Steven Spielberg pulls out all the stops for his newest WWI epic W...

[Review] The Adventures of Tintin

Considering I started conjuring images of an Indian sidekick named Hadji when first made aware of news Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson were directing a T...

[Review] The Pill

One of the greatest lessons I received from my film school education was a tossaway bon mot from a faculty advise, upset that  I didn't have time to take a ...

[Review] The Flowers of War

The latest feature from internationally heralded Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, The Flowers of War, is not a tale of soldiers and strategies, but rather of the ...

[Review] Carnage

The next time Roman Polanski confronts material with roots in the theater, I won't be looking forward to it. Carnage, his thoroughly disappointing adaptatio...