Abel Morales is a man who wants nothing more than to succeed at running a legitimate business. The son of immigrants, he has worked hard all his life to not succumb to the crime...
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The Top 10 Films of the Year
It’s not often these days that people can agree on much of anything, but the verdict is nearly unanimous that 2014 was a bad year. Every time you turned around it seemed there was...
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Inherent Vice
Paul Thomas Anderson is such an important filmmaker at this point that he can make a minor movie without prompting very much alarm. There’s simply no mistaking Inherent Vice, the seventh and least of...
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Interstellar
Christopher Nolan undoubtedly makes bigger, grander movies than nearly any other director does. Alas, scale isn’t the same thing as greatness. It’s not every filmmaker who would have a budget of $170 million dollars...
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Nightcrawler
As Louis Bloom, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a newcomer to the business of shooting sensational pieces and selling them to the local news networks in what might be his most memorable role to date. His...
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Movie Review: Gone Girl
When this year ends it will likely be remembered, or at least should be, as a nauseating series of events that have shown how real and dangerous a problem misogyny still is. Every time...
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Movie Review: Jimi: All Is By My Side
Biopics, particularly of musicians, have become so cliché at this point that it can sometimes be a wonder any filmmakers even bother anymore. As a genre they can often play as straightforwardly unironic and...
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Movie Review: The Skeleton Twins
Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader-two of the best comedic actors we’ve got-are so wonderful in The Skeleton Twins you can’t help dearly wishing that this isn’t the last time they star opposite each other....
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Movie Review: Atlas Shrugged: Part III
For more than seven decades now Ayn Rand’s work has served as a pseudo-intellectual cover for unbridled selfishness and market-worship. Particularly in the last five years Rand, who died in 1982, has seen a heightened interest...
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Movie Review: The Identical
Elvis Presley is remembered as one of the most popular entertainers of all time, “the King of Rock and Roll”, and a fallen idol, but before he conquered the world, he was the second...
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Movie Review: Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
In Frank Miller’s graphic novel series low-lifes and outlaws regularly do battle against creeps, sociopathic monsters, and even filthier souls in a perennially night-time scuzzy playhouse of crime, vice, and immorality. Sin City is...
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Movie Review: The Giver
The futuristic world imagined by author Lois Lowry in The Giver is a tranquil, safe, and subtly terrifying nightmare. From the ashes of “The Ruin” during which the planet was torn apart by war...
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