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Screening Log: April 2013

During April, for the first time in a while, I committed myself to maintaining a detailed screening log: nothing too intricate, but just enough information to keep tabs on dates, titles, and viewing locations. This is mostly for personal reference, … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘The Monk’

Director: Dominik Moll | Writers: Matthew Lewis (novel), Dominik Moll, Anne-Louise Trividic | Cast: Vincent Cassel, Déborah François, Joséphine Japy, Sergi López, Catherine Mouchet | Rating: R | Runtime: 101 minutes | Year (U.S. release date): 2013 | Not much … Continue reading

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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: ‘The Master’

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson | Cast: Amy Adams, Laura Dern, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Jesse Plemons | Rating: R | Runtime: 137 minutes | Year (U.S. release): 2012 | In Paul Thomas Anderson’s The … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘Magic Mike’

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Writer: Reid Carolin | Cast: Cody Horn, Matthew McConaughey, Olivia Munn, Alex Pettyfer, Channing Tatum | Rating: R | Runtime: 110 minutes | Year (U.S. release): 2012 | Steven Soderbergh is at such a fascinating point … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘Moonrise Kingdom’

Director: Wes Anderson | Writers: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola | Cast: Bob Balaban, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Bruce Willis | Rating: PG-13 | Runtime: 94 minutes | Year: 2012 | … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol’

Director: Brad Bird | Writers: Josh Appelbaum, Bruce Geller (TV series), André Nemec | Cast: Tom Cruise, Michael Nyqvist, Paula Patton, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Tom Wilkinson | Rating: PG-13 | Runtime: 133 minutes | Year (U.S. release date): 2011 … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘My Week with Marilyn’ (2011)

Michelle Williams is so good as the title character in Simon Curtis’ My Week with Marilyn that watching the film is like watching Some Like It Hot for the first time — or whichever film it was that made you … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘Melancholia’ (2011)

More ambitious in theory than in practice, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia slowly builds to a climax that perplexingly combines a physical event of grandiose proportions with an utter absence of emotional involvement. Because of the foreshadowing of the universe’s destruction … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’ (2011)

With Martha Marcy May Marlene, first-time writer-director Sean Durkin seeks to thrust the viewer inside the head of his tormented protagonist, who, played by Elizabeth Olsen, embodies each of the names contained within the title at different points in the … Continue reading

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