New Releases
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The collision of wiseguy director/writer Shane Black and the Marvel universe in "Iron Man 3" strikes off some unusual sparks.
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Pearblossom Highway (2012, Dir. Mike Ott): As a screenwriter (more daydream than actual goal), I sometimes encounter an indie film that makes me think, “I would love to have this…
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012, Dir. Peter Jackson): “In the hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of…
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"Django Unchained" embraces the spaghetti western aesthetic, but this time around Quentin Tarantino has more in mind than just exploitation.
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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…
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The Dark Knight Rises (2012, Dir. Christopher Nolan): It’s been a dozen years since Memento, the shoestring-budget thriller that made a name for Christopher Nolan, and it’s been nearly that…
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Prometheus (2012, Dir. Ridley Scott): If the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, then the opening images of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus are a yellow brick highway: majestic vistas of…
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The Avengers (2012, Dir. Joss Whedon): As summer blockbuster season more and more comes to resemble a mass assembly line of prefab parts and decision-by-committee styling, The Avengers stands out…
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011, Dir. Tomas Alfredson): Arthur Conan-Doyle, Agatha Christie, Ian Fleming — does John le Carré now join the ranks of this august company when it comes…