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Film Review – Two Days, One Night
Two Days, One Night, from directors Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, is about one woman’s weekend quest to save her job. Sandra (Marion Cotillard) works at a solar panel company and is currently out on sick leave. She finds out on a Friday that her coworkers…
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Film Review – Mr. Turner
J.M.W. Turner was considered a controversial painter in the 19th century. His use of light and his elevating of landscape painting as an art form to rival historical paintings in England was seen as one of the key forerunners of the impressionist movement. Fellow artists…
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Film Review – Wild
Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) is preparing to go on a 1,100-mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail in Wild. We are not told why, but sense that this is something she thinks she needs to do even though she cannot say why. As she starts out, she…
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Film review – Appropriate Behavior
Desiree Akhavan’s breakup comedy Appropriate Behavior cautiously and honestly blends the familiar with the new, as she competently writes, directs, and stars in her first feature. Indiscriminately using every aspect of her own life to the screen, Akhaven plays Shirin, a second-generation Iranian who’s struggling…
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Film Review – Song One
Just to get this out in the open, I am not a passenger on the hate train for Anne Hathaway. While she seems a little bland, it’s nothing to get all nasty about. I don’t really get the vitriol directed towards her; it just seems…
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Film Review – A Most Violent Year
In the perception of society, crime equals corruption. Synonymous with each other to the point of perceived mutual exclusivity, it begs the question of whether one can commit crime without being corrupt. With a clean-cut demeanor, Abel Morales, played with a subtle intensity by Oscar…
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Film Review – American Sniper
Chris Kyle was a real life figure who was credited as being the deadliest sniper in American history. He happened to have a real gift for doing one of the worst and most psyche destroying jobs there is: shooting people with deadly accuracy. Yet he…
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Film Review – Blackhat
From top to bottom, Blackhat is a Michael Mann movie. All the familiar traits are there: tough guys, conversations over tabletops, dynamic cityscapes, and flashes of violence. It is a “Mann film,” but it’s unlike anything he’s done. Here is a filmmaker so focused on…
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