Movie Reviews & Stories
Gaining an appreciable level of success outside of one’s
home country is not an unusual feat. Just ask Alela Diane, a local
singer-songwriter who can fill huge theaters in France while still
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Movie Reviews & Stories
Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell have become the
paunchy, awkward Wayans brothers of American comedic film, broad-stroked
and choked up with cheap gags, sweaty and desperate for the audience’s
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Japanese director Takashi Miike has never met a provocation he didn’t want to amplify. Films as diverse as the terrifying Audition, the grim Ichi the Killer and the absurdist Zebraman
are soaked w
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If this isn’t Total Recall, then what the hell is it? An objective comparison.
Movie Reviews & Stories
Critic’s Grade: C-SEE IT: Total Recall
is rated PG-13. It opens Friday at Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills,
Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport,
City Center, Lloyd Ma
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Meet Jackie Siegel. Half Miss Havisham, half Stifler’s
mom, she presides—in a state of well-intentioned oblivion—over eight
children and...
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In this metafictional rom-com, Paul Dano plays a
bestselling novelist named Calvin Weir-Fields, a onetime prodigy whose
genius peaked with the epoch-defining book he published at age 19. In
the
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Following up on 2007’s much-venerated, sordid metaphysical puzzle box Timecrimes, director Nacho Vigalondo again cracks the genre box wide open in Extraterrestrial.
Across all of Spain,
4-
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When DC Comics created Batman, my parents weren’t alive.
And when George Clooney nearly tarnished his career by donning the
nipply Batsuit in 1997’s Batman and Robin, I was playing with
Barb
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Holy inconvenient screening time! Inexplicably, the biggest movie of the year played for critics at 10 am on WW’s
press day. We went to the screening anyway, of course, and hastily
pecked out an
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