Oscar Nominated Live-Action Shorts (85th Academy Awards) (review)
My favorite of the lot is the French-Belgian “Death of a Shadow,” a steampunkish science fantasy…
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Amour (review)
There have been other stories about longstanding love and the devotion it inspires, but none with quite the wallop of this one…
Chained (review)
An unnerving and provocative grenade lobbed into the heart of the horror genre…
Movie 43 movie review
It is so cute what this flick thinks is “dangerous” and “offensive”!
The Last Stand (review)
This Governor Schwarzenegger guy shoulda stuck his day job…
Everyday (review)
A remarkable and unlikely sort of love story, and another triumph from Michael Winterbottom…
That’s My Boy (review)
This is like the evil Mirror Universe version of Ted.
Quartet (review)
A lovely film with heartfelt performances from a fantastic cast that focuses on the upsides of getting older…
The Sweeney (review)
This British attempt to ape Hollywood action movies only looks absurd, even if it does accidentally also hold up most Hollywood action movies as absurd, too…
Broken City (review)
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that this script had been sitting around, unproduced, for 20 years, it’s that musty…
