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The Keeper of Lost Causes (Kvinden i buret) and The Absent One (Fasandraeberne) movies review: good clean nasty Nordic noir

Fri, Apr 15, 2016
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Grim treats, mining suspense and urgency from intensely plotted dual timelines of brutal criminality. A must for fans of rumpled, cynical, bitter detectives.

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The Huntsman: Winter’s War movie review: snow what?

Thu, Apr 07, 2016
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It’s a prequel and a sequel! It’s got girl powerrr and lady-hating! It’s a mashup of Lord of the Rings and Frozen! It’s all these things, and less.

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Big Eyes movie review: painted into a corner

Wed, Apr 06, 2016
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A bitter feminist fairy tale about a woman betrayed by love and trust and crafted by culture to be vulnerable to the charms of a con-artist husband.

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Sold movie review: the life of a child sex slave

Fri, Apr 01, 2016
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Brutal yet sensitively rendered, putting a human face, if a fictional one, on an issue that rarely gets one. Almost Dickens for the 21st century.

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Black Mountain Poets movie review: rhyme and unreason

Fri, Apr 01, 2016
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A tasty treat of gentle but wise humor, full of as much sympathy but also tough love for its messed-up sisters as they are for each other.

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Marguerite movie review: is ignorance bliss?

Thu, Mar 31, 2016
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A bravura dramedy that beautifully balances tragedy and comedy and asks a tricky question: Is it better to be cynical about art, or happily undiscriminating?

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Jane Wants a Boyfriend movie rating: red light

Fri, Mar 25, 2016
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Drama about a young woman with Asperger’s looking for love is stilted, forced, phony, emotionally implausible, and rather paternalistic and patronizing.

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Zootropolis (aka Zootopia) movie review: creature feature

Thu, Mar 24, 2016
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Marvelous. A bouncy comedy mystery adventure parable in a fantasy world meticulously and cleverly conceived and gorgeously realized. I adore this movie.

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Irrational Man movie review: the measure of a man’s midlife crisis

Tue, Mar 22, 2016
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A blithe and chipper drawing-room comedy that, in a deliciously perverse way, plays with notions of chance and karma and very bitter irony.

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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 movie review: prearranged marriage

Tue, Mar 22, 2016
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There is genuine if exasperated warmth here, but it is far less satisfyingly bound up into a cohesive story in this halfhearted retread of the original film.

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