Starring:
Denzel Washington
Review:
If Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman and the return of the Hughes
brothers (it’s been damn near a decade since From Hell)
isn’t enough to jazz you about The Book of Eli, you’re
probably not much of a film freak. OK, the movie is an apocalyptic
tale with a religioso bent that does it no favors. We’ve […]

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Starring:
Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Review:
As has-been country singer Bad Blake (great name), Jeff Bridges
looks like something scraped off the bowling alleys he’s been
reduced to playing. His beard redefines scraggly. His guitar can’t
hide his gut. His voice croaks from cigarettes, booze and one-night
stands that earned him four divorce decrees. But this Bad boy can
write songs […]

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Starring:
Michael Stuhlbarg
Review:
The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, are getting personal. They
shot their new film in suburban Minnesota, where they grew up as
sons of Jewish academics. But if you’re expecting something warm
and fuzzy, circa 1967, you don’t know the Coens, and A Serious
Man is no country for you. This seriously funny movie,
artfully photographed by […]

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Review:
Here?s a powerhouse of a documentary that makes you feel mad as
hell and unwilling to take it anymore. Filmmaker Joe Berlinger
(Paradise Lost) is calling out Chevron for despoiling the
Ecuadorean rainforest (via its merger with Texaco in 2001) and
using every spin in the Chevron PR book to pretend otherwise. A
1993 lawsuit pitting indigenous tribes […]

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Starring:
Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson
Review:
Not everything works in Woody Allen?s first New York–based
movie in five years (he?s gone European). Whatever Works
feels like something out of time and, worse, out of step. Hell,
Allen wrote the script back in the 1970s for Zero Mostel. The
grumpy old Jew at the center of this comedy […]

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Starring:
Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes
Review:
The elegant barbed wit of Noel Coward bubbling up in a time of
Wolverine grunts. I must be dreaming. But here it is, a 1920s-era
comedy of bad manners done by experts. Jessica Biel is funny and
touching as Larita, an American auto racer catching hell from the
snob Brit parents (Colin Firth and […]

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Starring:
David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson
Review:
Being suitably paranoid about the paranormal, I wanted to
believe that X-Files creator Chris Carter, having had six
years since the TV show went off the air to craft a humdinger of a
plot, could conjure up something with more ding and less (ho) hum
than The X-Files: I Want To Believe. What I […]

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