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Brew Views: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Teen dream.


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Like most teen movies, The Perks of Being a Wallflower harvests the raw power of adolescent passion in all its sloppy, horny glory to craft a cinematic confection that reflects, interprets and g   More
 
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 EMILY JENSEN

Brew Views:

Fate of fame.


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Frederico Fellini’s lucid, semiautobiographical 1963 landmark, 8½, could be considered the template for filmdom’s self-aggrandizing tendencies. Suffering from director’s block, Fellini look   More
 
Wednesday, January 9, 2013 AP KRYZA

Brew Views: Holy Motors

Vroom vroom.


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In 1999, Leos Carax’s Pola X landed with such a resounding commercial and critical thud that, until recently, no one would hire him. So with nothing to lose, and the financial backing of a hal   More
 
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 ROBERT HAM

Brew Views: Wreck-It Ralph

Level up.


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In Rich Moore’s entertaining Wreck-It Ralph, John C. Reilly voices the title character, a villain in an 8-bit arcade game. Ralph isn’t a villain; he’s just gets tossed in the mud every day    More
 
Wednesday, December 26, 2012 JOHN LOCANTHI

Brew Views: Miracle Mile

Bombing out.


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After a chance meeting, Harry (Anthony Edwards) and Julie (Mare Winningham) fall in love, and the miracle in 1988’s Miracle Mile seems realized. But when Harry blows a date and learns of impending   More
 
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 MITCH LILLIE

Brew Views: A Late Quartet

Brut force.


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If Jägermeister is the beverage of rock stars, then for a string quartet it must be a vigorously shaken bottle of champagne: refined, expensive and on the verge of exploding into an effervescent pudd   More
 
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 EMILY JENSEN

Brew Views: Bad Santa

In the scuzzball spirit.


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Many will decry 2003’s neoclassic holiday upheaval Bad Santa as a cynical and reactionary piece of humbuggery, but there’s a surprisingly sweet element that lurks in the jacked-up odyssey of B   More
 
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 AP KRYZA

Brew Views: Chasing Ice

Baby, it’s cold outside.


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National Geographic photographer James Balog might be called the innovator of ice porn. In the documentary Chasing Ice, he sets out to document melting glaciers around the world, selflessly strivi   More
 
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 DREW LENIHAN

Brew Views: The Nightmare Before Christmas

Ghost of Christmas Past


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Earlier this year, Tim Burton remade his 1984 live-action short, Frankenweenie, as a feature-length stop-motion adventure, to some of the best reviews of his late career. It was a shrewd maneuver,   More
 
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Brew Views: Arbitrage

Gere as Icarus.


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Arbitrage may not be directed by Paul Verhoeven, but feature-film rookie Nicholas Jarecki so thoroughly channels the hollow-man ambitions, smug moral posturing and incongruous driving-synth atmo   More
 
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 MATTHEW KORFHAGE
 

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