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[Review] The Warlords

I'm a big fan of Asian cinema, so that may have factored into my decision to side with The Warlords finer faults. Director Peter Chan has crafted a capable picture that depicts the uglier side of the Taiping Rebellion....
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[Tribeca Review] Tetsuo: The Bullet Man

Tetsuo: The Bullet Man is a work of twisted genius by a master at the top of his game, Shinya Tsukamoto. It's pure cyber cinema at its best and delivers a jolt of terrifying techno savagery that will leave your eyelids and eardrums shaken after the end credits roll....
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[Review] The Secret In Their Eyes

In The Secret in Their Eyes, Ricardo Darin and Soledad Villamil play two co-workers balancing passions for their job and each other. Featuring two storylines set more than twenty years apart, Darin and Villamil both stretch their abilities to the limit, but they are always convincing, physically and emotionally....
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[Review] Vincere

Vincere is not an easy movie to swallow. It's a confusing, historical melodrama that forgoes historical fact for implied intimate details and complexities about Italian dictator Benito Mussolini [...]...
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[Review] The Losers

The Losers is a lot of fun. Surprisingly and refreshingly, it's also not ineptly stupid. While it may come off as that, it isn't. It's a really well done action film made in the vein of eighties team oriented action movies....
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[Review] Kick-Ass

Kick-Ass is insane, hilarious and downright impressive. Similar to last year's Watchmen, it takes the tropes and conventions of the superhero genre and turn...
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[Review] Exit Through the Gift Shop

Banksy is a genius. I say this as both a loving fan of his artwork and his latest creation, an amazing in-depth parable about the birth and growth of the street art movement....
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[Review] Death at a Funeral

Martin Scorsese remade Infernal Affairs four years later. Gore Verbinksi took the same amount of time to remake Ring. This year we will see Matt Reeves remake Let The Right One In just two years later....