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- Film, Movie Review Nov 20, 2018
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Dovlatov and Outlaw King take pains to present the past as their audiences would prefer to see it
Two new Netflix releases show remarkable lapses in their directors’ good sense.
- Film, Movie Review Aug 18, 2016
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Hell or High Water takes place in the present, but it feels like the Great Depression
Jeff Bridges and Chris Pine star in this crime thriller about Texas brothers on a bank-robbing spree.
- Film, Movie Feature Dec 26, 2014
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Our favorite movies of 2014
The best films of the year, according to J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 11, 2014
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Further thoughts on the climax of Starred Up: Old realism versus new realism
David Mackenzie's prison drama (playing in Chicago this week) aspires to the realist tradition of Puccini, Balzac, and Dickens—which means it doesn't have to be plausible.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 5, 2014
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Men behind bars, obsolete stars, and the rest of this week's screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- Film, Movie Review Sep 3, 2014
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In the prison drama Starred Up, a father and son reunite behind bars
Scottish director David Mackenzie explores a life defined by violence.
- Film, Movie Review Sep 12, 2012
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In the realm of the sensuous
Pleasure is the business of David Mackenzie's Tonight You're Mine
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 29, 2012
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Now on DVD: another end of the world
A review of Perfect Sense, a Scottish sci-fi romance new on DVD
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 2, 2011
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Cine-File Selects: Two Lovers
The weekly Cine-File Selects screening series begins Monday 1/3 at Doc Films with "Two Lovers," the heartfelt romantic drama whose publicity campaign star Joaquin Phoenix torpedoed with his purportedly staged rap debut/career suicide (as brother-in-law Casey Affleck presented in pseudodocumentary "I'm Still Here.")