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Movie Review: ‘Mama’

Director: Andrés Muschietti | Writers: Neil Cross, Andrés Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti | Cast: Javier Botet, Megan Charpentier, Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Daniel Kash, Isabelle Nélisse | Rating: PG-13 | Runtime: 100 minutes | Year (U.S. release date): 2013 | Andrés … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Writer: Mark Boal | Cast: Kyle Chandler, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Mark Duplass, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Ehle, James Gandolfini, Reda Kateb, Chris Pratt, Édgar Ramírez, Mark Strong | Rating: R | Runtime: 157 minutes | Year … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘Lawless’

Director: John Hillcoat | Writers: Matt Bondurant (novel), Nick Cave | Cast: Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Dane DeHaan, Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Gary Oldman, Guy Pearce, Mia Wasikowska | Rating: R | Runtime: 115 minutes | Year (U.S. release): 2012 … Continue reading

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‘The Artist,’ ‘Moneyball,’ ‘Tree of Life’ Earn Multiple Citations from NYFCC

As irksome as the New York Film Critics Circle’s desire to shoot the first bullet of this year’s awards season often was — they didn’t even bother to see Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close prior to the vote … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘Take Shelter’ (2011)

Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter hinges on a lead performance from Michael Shannon that is nothing short of astounding. It’s a tribute to the actor’s one-of-a-kind talent that phrases like “career-best work” aren’t being thrown around in every single piece written … Continue reading

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Trailer for John Madden’s ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’

The trailer for John Madden’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel hit over at Apple a few days ago, and I thought I’d give it some proper space here, if only because I just recently took in Madden’s The Debt, which, … Continue reading

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First-Half Contenders: Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’

While Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris — whose Oscar prospects I delved into just the other day — may be a more consensus critical favorite than The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick’s film is without a doubt the more polarizing … Continue reading

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Looking Ahead: Forecasting the 2011-2012 Oscar Contenders

Note: As this is my first time doing year-in-advance predictions, feel free to leave a comment below or send an e-mail if you think there are any particular films I’ve left out of my predictions. As of March 8, Best … Continue reading

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Trailer for Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’

Apple has unexpectedly released the official trailer for Terrence Malick’s upcoming The Tree of Life. The long-awaited preview played before theatrical showings of Black Swan, though Fox Searchlight was quick to remove all bootleg recordings from the web. The film … Continue reading

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