New Releases
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The Imitation Game (2014, Dir. Morton Tyldum): Behind every code is an enigma. — Tagline for The Imitation Game Let’s get one thing straight: The Imitation Game is exactly what you would expect…
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The Babadook (2014, Dir. Jennifer Kent): If it’s in a word, or it’s in a look You can’t get rid of the Babadook. See him in your room at night…
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"A Most Wanted Man" isn't the best John le Carré adaptation, but it provides a fitting send-off for Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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Automata (2014, Dir. Gabe Ibáñez): You can probably count the number of great films about robots on one hand (I got Wall-E, Metropolis, Blade Runner, and The Terminator — feel free…
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Interstellar (2014, Dir. Christopher Nolan): Interstellar is haunted by ghosts: both a “ghost” that jump-starts the plot (and might not be a spirit at all) and the very real ghosts…
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The November Man (Dir. Roger Donaldson, 2014): His name was Devereaux. It was his surname when he had not been in the Section. It did not matter what his Christian…
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Patricia Highsmith has always been difficult for cinema to decipher. As the first great post-noir author, she never takes the easy way out with her heroes and villains — to…
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Guardians of the Galaxy (2014, Dir. James Gunn): We know the template: likeable heroes and hiss-able villains, everything we hold dear in peril, destructive forces housed in day-glo energy balls,…
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Snowpiercer (2013, Dir. Bong Joon-ho): A unique point of view in a big summer movie is hard to come by. That’s not to say that summer movies are devoid of…
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013, Dir. J.J. Abrams): Bruce Wayne auf weidersehn, Dirty Harry, Make my day, Terminator, hit the north, Alan Moore knows the score, Riffs? Yeah! Can U…