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Philip Seymour Hoffman

Twisters movie review: no winds of change blowing here

Mon, Aug 05, 2024
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Hooray for Glen Powell’s star rising, but this absurdly coy movie — is it a sequel? a remake? — is a cowardly, reckless missed opportunity: it’s deeply baffling that it omits any hint of global warming.

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I movie review: image manipulation

Thu, Nov 13, 2014
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One of the best SF series ever deepens its critique of the power of propaganda in ways complicated, intriguingly contradictory, and a little bit horrifying.

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A Most Wanted Man movie review: intelligence afterscape

Thu, Nov 06, 2014
1 comment

A smart, classy, slow-burn thriller made up of the stuff of authentic spy work and plenty of bitter irony about modern geopolitics.

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God’s Pocket movie review: rot in the city

Fri, Aug 08, 2014
3 comments

The cast is amazing and the film has a certain grim visual beauty. But ultimately there is little here but ugly senselessness.

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A Most Wanted Man clip: one of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last performances

Mon, Feb 03, 2014
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Based on a novel by John le Carré, and just debuted at Sundance.

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dammit dammit dammit, Philip Seymour Hoffman is gone

Sun, Feb 02, 2014
21 comments

Every movie he touched was better for it.

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire review: reluctant heroine

Fri, Nov 15, 2013
32 comments

A devastating indictment of pop culture as propaganda — about its power and the limits of its powers — and an upending of the typical teen-girl romance movie.

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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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the 85th Academy Award nominees

Tue, Feb 12, 2013
4 comments

With links to my reviews. I’ll be adding reviews of the last few films I haven’t yet covered between now and the Oscars.

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The Master (trailer)

Mon, Jun 25, 2012
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Disappointed to learn that this is not a film about the renegade Time Lord who has been hounding the Doctor for centuries.

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