November 2012
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Woman of Straw (1964, Dir. Basil Dearden): If you’ve seen The Lavender Hill Mob, Kind Hearts and Coronets, or the original Ladykillers, you’re familiar with (and hopefully appreciate) the genteel…
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Haywire (2012, Dir. Steven Soderbergh): It’s not often that you get a simple either-or proposition when it comes to enjoying a movie, so ready yourself: whether or not you like…
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Lincoln (2012, Dir. Steven Spielberg): If it can be said that Steven Spielberg was fated to direct Schindler’s List, then it can also be said that he was meant to…
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Skyfall (2012, Dir. Sam Mendes): “Don’t cock it up.” These are the words spoken by a bureaucratic apparatchik to James Bond in Skyfall, and they’re the words on our minds…