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- Culture, Film Reviews October 24, 2018
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The Fright Stuff
Tales of the scary movie moments our critics will never forget.
- I doubt that I have ever jumped so high, so fast, in a manner that probably looked like a cartoon character.
- Culture, Film Reviews October 19, 2016
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Fall Flicks
Our picks for the "awards season" movies most worth getting excited about.
- Here are some of the titles we're most jazzed to see heading toward the end of 2016.
- Culture, Film Reviews September 2, 2015
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Movie Lessons of the Summer
City Weekly film critics contemplate the lessons of the cinematic summer
- It's hard to believe the kids are back in school already, and the summer movie season of 2015 is now in the rear-view mirror.
- Culture, Film Reviews January 21, 2015
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Oscar Nominations 2015
City Weekly film contributors react to the Academy's choices, for good or ill
- Like many, I feared Marion Cotillard would be left out of the Best Actress field. She hasn't got a shot of winning for the remarkable Two Days, One Night, ...
- Culture, Film Reviews September 3, 2014
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Fall Films 2014
City Weekly film writers look at their most anticipated movies for the rest of 2014
- Every cinematic fall brings talk of "awards season," and the titles almost certain to draw either critical praise or Oscar voters' love, if not both.
- Culture, Film Reviews July 2, 2014
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Snowpiercer
Snowpiercer turns a director’s vision into propulsive genre satisfaction
- Bong Joon-ho isn’t one for staying within the lines. Since making his debut with the bleakly funny Tarantino riff Barking Dogs Never Bite, the South Korean director has delivered a terrific streak of films that remain respectful to their chosen genres—crime procedurals for Memories of Murder,
- Culture, Film Reviews May 30, 2014
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Cold in July
Cold in July delivers old-school Southern-fried genre satisfaction
- Mention Joe R. Lansdale to someone familiar with his books, and watch the crooked grins start to form. First identified as a member of horror fiction’s short-lived ’90s “splatterpunk” movement,
- Culture, Film Reviews November 27, 2013
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Nebraska
Low-speed road movie with many virtues
- Alexander Payne has long inhabited the nexus between affectionate ribbing and pointed jabs. Although his killer satirical instincts have been evident since his debut—1996’s blackly hilario
- Culture, Film Reviews October 18, 2013
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We Are What We Are
An unfiltered shot of the real stuff
- Director Jim Mickle first fired up a signal flare among horror fans with 2006’s Mulberry Street, a no-budget melding of Cassavetes-style realism and giant mutant rat men.
- Culture, Film Reviews August 3, 2012
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Dark Horse
Cinema of uneasiness loses steam
- Director Todd Solondz had his moment in the … well, we’ll call it “sunshine” with 1998’s Happiness, a spectacularly assured downer that somehow served as the missing link between John Waters and Ingmar Bergman.
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