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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....
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[Review] Repo Men

Repo Men is nothing but self-aware. It never loses sight of its B-movie style, it embraces it. The first and last act, especially the climax, actually makes this stand apart from the rest of the high concept films out there. It's bloody, silly, competently made, and, at times, even ambitious....
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[Review] She’s Out Of My League

Paramount Pictures | USA | 104 mins Romantic comedies, of the R-rated raunchy varietal, are nearly a dime a dozen these days. The hero comes in with some han...
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[Review] Remember Me

So it is that despite the middling reviews and unnecessarily cult-like Robert Pattinson fandom, Remember Me, directed by the very capable Allen Coulter (Hollywoodland), is a simple, well-made love story about two young, tortured souls and the families that torture them....
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[Review] Mother

The mother is the origin of all life in this world. The single point of love, passion and life from which all things can be traced back to. Our gatekeepers, guardians and guides throughout life, the mother is there whether we want them to be or not....
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[Review] Green Zone

Green Zone isn't entirely what most people are expecting. It's not Jason Bourne four, as people joke, and it's not nonstop action. Is there action? Absolutely, and it's handled masterfully in the way you'd expect from a pro like Greengrass. In the end though, this isn't an action movie. It's sharp, smart, and very effective conspiracy thriller. ...
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[Review] Alice in Wonderland

A film featuring Johnny Depp and having a story full of surreal imagery should have been a home run for Tim Burton. This is the man who made Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, Sweeney Todd and even Batman. It's a wonder how could someone as visually impressive and original as Burton could deliver something so utterly generic....
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[Review] Brooklyn’s Finest

Years ago, director Antoine Fuqua showed great promise with the truly excellent Training Day. The past few years he's been unable to live up to that bart set with King Arthur, Tears of the Sun, and the even the fun B-movie Shooter. While most of those films suffered from studio interference, they still didn't serve as the best followups to Training Day. Does Brooklyn's Finest? For the most part, yes....