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2012 theatrical releases

You’ve Been Trumped and You’ve Been Trumped, Too documentaries review: Donald Trump is no friend to “the little people”

Mon, Oct 31, 2016
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A British filmmaker documents the arrogance and disdain with which Donald Trump wields the power of his money… a warning for Americans come Election Day.

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Easy Money and Easy Money: Hard to Kill review: easy money… isn’t

Wed, Feb 19, 2014
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Easy Money is a smart, affecting, slow burn of a movie, a spectacular example of Nordic noir. The sequel suffers by comparison, though.

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Chasing Mavericks review

Tue, Nov 05, 2013
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This gentle father-son(ish) tale about an expert surfer and his teen apprentice is a rare “family” movie that isn’t preachy or insipid.

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Citadel yellow light Aneurin Barnard

Citadel review

Mon, Sep 30, 2013
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A familiar story of sinister creature frights and psychological horror gets a little boost from a gloomy mood of urban decay and isolation.

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Stolen review: thief of parts

Mon, Aug 05, 2013
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By turns hilarious, absurd, offensive, and insulting, this is all rote action that will pique your interest only when it is being completely ridiculous.

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The House I Live In review: incarceration nation

Tue, Jul 02, 2013
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Whatever your politics, you will find things to astonish and flabbergast and enrage you in this cool-headed examination of America’s War on Drugs.

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monkey in the middle (Chimpanzee review)

Fri, May 03, 2013
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Cuteness proximity alert! Cuteness proximity alert!

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inoffensive Frankenkid; you’ve seen worse (The Odd Life of Timothy Green review)

Fri, Apr 05, 2013
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The magic is as modest as can be, and its aim is a bit off…

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you can’t stop the music… *ever* (A Late Quartet review)

Fri, Apr 05, 2013
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All its faults are forgiven thanks to our sheer joy in getting to watch Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, and Philip Seymour Hoffman rattle around one another…

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Bernie (review)

Thu, Mar 14, 2013
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Such a simple little movie…but also sad and strange, and ironic and discomfiting.

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