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Winds of September (2008, Dir. Tom Yu-Shu Lin): One inevitable consequence when a national cinema comes of age is a new wave of filmmakers who pay homage, however subsconciously, to…
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True Grit (2010, Dir. Joel & Ethan Coen): It’s the Old West, and three murderers are about to be hanged: two white Americans, one Injun. The first man delivers a…
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The King’s Speech (2010, Dir. Tom Cooper): It sounds like a fairy tale: the king of a besieged country suffers from a strange ailment that only a kindly wizard can…
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Samuel Fuller was of his time and beyond it, and his early B-grade Korean War drama "The Steel Helmet" amply illustrates that fact.
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Sherlock (2010, Produced by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss): Much like James Bond, Sherlock Holmes is a cultural figure that has outgrown his literary origins, to the point where the…
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The Long Riders (1980, Dir. Walter Hill): It reads like a gimmick — get four sets of acting brothers (the Carradines, the Keaches, the Quaids and the Guests) and have them…
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Kill Zone (2005, Dir. Wilson Yip): Welcome to the New Wave of Hong Kong police thrillers — technically polished, solidly acted, visceral and brainy. So why does it feel like…
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The American (2010, Dir. Anton Corbijn): I’m not very good with machines. — George Clooney, The American The American promises to be an escape from the machinations of the typical…
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"Inception" marries thriller mechanics with dream logic, resulting in Christopher Nolan's most ambitious and most prosaic movie yet.
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Cargo (2009, Dir. Ivan Engler & Ralph Etter) Purportedly Switzerland’s first science fiction filmand made on a shoestring budget, Cargo is certainly an impressive technical effort (some of of the…
