There are two types of people in the world: those who love James Brown and those who never cared much for music in the first place. The singer who earned the title “The Hardest...
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Movie Review: A Most Wanted Man
When this year in film is looked back on surely the most significant thing we’ll remember about it-more than any specific movie or new trend-is the enormous loss left by the passing of Philip...
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Movie Review: Lucy
What if you were able to use all of your brain instead of just a small fraction of it? That’s the startlingly misinformed question asked in Lucy, a part-stupid, part-insane thriller by writer and...
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Movie Review: Boyhood
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is a film of boundless warmth, intelligence, joy, and depth. It’s also critically a work of staggering ambition and scope. We don’t watch as different actors step in the shoes of...
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Movie Review: Life Itself
“For me the movies are like machines that generate empathy,” Roger Ebert once described the way cinema brings incredibly diverse types of people together to experience things outside of their own lives. Those are...
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Movie Review: America: Imagine the World Without Her
America: Imagine the World Without Her – A Movie Review by N. Tensen Dinesh D’Souza is a man on a mission. That mission is to save America from being completely altered or destroyed by...
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Movie Review: The Rover
Guy Pearce has always been an actor of more presence than depth. The performances he’s given to date have tended to be mostly passable in terms of sheer technique. It’s hard to think of...
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Movie review: The Fault in Our Stars
Kids or teens with cancer are quite possibly the most sympathetic group of all. That makes the young patients in The Fault in Our Stars a no-brainer to root for. It doesn’t mean, however,...
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Movie Review: Blended
Appearing recently on Jimmy Kimmel’s show Adam Sandler was asked if he makes movies now just as a way to go on vacation. Somewhat surprisingly he said that he does and has been since...
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Movie Review: “Million Dollar Arm”
Even if you haven’t seen that many sports movies you probably have a good sense of what to expect going in to one. There will be rousing highs. There will be lows along the...
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Movie Review: “Neighbors”
Seth Rogen and Zack Efron make ideal foils for each other. Rogen with his living room physique and messy demeanor against the perfectly coiffed and toned and absurdly good-looking Efron is visual contrast enough....
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Movie Review: ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’
The thrilling thing about life is that its rich pageant does’t go on forever. No honest person claims to know the meaning of it all. But everyone knows time on earth is finite which makes...
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