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Christopher Walken

The Family Fang movie review: family bites

Tue, May 10, 2016
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Strikingly original, a truly rare pleasure in a cinematic environment clogged with cookie-cutter films. Jason Bateman and Nicole Kidman are splendid.

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The Jungle Book movie review: welcome to the jungle

Thu, Apr 14, 2016
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Goes right up to the bleeding edge of cinema to tell a story that is strapping yet simple, and hugely appealing. Disney found a good reason to redo an old film.

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Eddie the Eagle movie review: white man can’t jump, much

Tue, Mar 29, 2016
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Yet another celebration of an overconfident mediocre white man as charming, heroic, and worthy of emulation. It’s inspirational!

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Jersey Boys movie review: it’s not only rock ’n’ roll…

Wed, Jun 18, 2014
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Director Clint Eastwood’s discomfort with his own material is enormous and obvious. Does he just not get pop music, or is he actively disdainful and suspicious of it?

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Stand Up Guys review: best exotic mobster parole day

Fri, Jun 28, 2013
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Even when Walken, Pacino, and Arkin are phoning it in — on a rotary phone — they still earn their status as icons.

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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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A Late Quartet (trailer)

Fri, Mar 29, 2013
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Okay, I get it: How the string quartet plays together is like a metaphor for life. Whoa.

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Seven Psychopaths (trailer)

Wed, Sep 19, 2012
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“I almost got killed today because you kidnapped the wrong dog.” I cannot wait to see this.

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watch it: Kevin Spacey’s brilliant impersonations

Tue, Oct 11, 2011
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Is there anyone who hasn’t gotten a few good laughs out of Kevin Spacey’s hilarious impersonations?

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female gazing extra: “Men in Film”

Sat, Feb 19, 2011
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A hundred years of handsome Hollywood hotties, from Douglas Fairbanks Sr. to George Clooney, in three and a half minutes…

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