Disastrous
Date: 11/19/2009
By:
Derek Jenkins
I'd hang a spoiler alert right here if this movie were at all capable of being spoiled. Really.
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Mood men
Date: 11/5/2009
By:
Sam Eifling
There was a moment in the middle of the Coen brothers' "A Serious Man" when I realized I'd synched up with the film in a most intimate fashion.
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Childhood distilled
Date: 10/22/2009
By:
David Ramsey
In the beautifully understated opening sentence of Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are," we learn that the young protagonist, Max, "makes mischief of one kind and another."
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Liar's joker
Date: 10/8/2009
By:
Derek Jenkins
As high-concept comedies go, "The Invention of Lying" is pretty far out there: a bleak dystopia masquerading as romantic comedy.
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Brains!
Date: 10/1/2009
By:
Sam Eifling
Somewhere in the Venn diagram of youth tastes, in the purple space between web nerds and hipsters and meatheads and ironic "Fangoria" quasi-Goths and no-shirts-with-overalls Coors drinkers, lies a Holy Grail of mass appeal called The Perfect Zombie Movie.
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White-collar comedy
Date: 9/24/2009
By:
Sam Eifling
The camera during the opening credits of "The Informant!" dwells lovingly on images of reel-to-reel tapes spooling and unspooling, to the rising swell of a lounge-style orchestra.
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