Movies | "I don't believe you've met His Majesty George VI." It's a short
joke, not even the funniest in what one has to reluctantly call a
very funny movie about stuttering, but it perfectly encapsulates
The King's Speech
, Tom…
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Yes, all right, it's hard to care about the Facebook movie. To
those of us who used the website during our formative years, the
movie feels like a bunch of…
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The writers of
It's Kind of a Funny Story
have made it difficult to describe the film without making it
sound like a complete downer. It's the hilarious tale of…
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It's tempting to shorten a review of
Never Let Me Go
to four words ("read the book instead"), but a few things need to
be said about what is surely the most…
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Watching
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
is a little like the dreams you might have if you fell asleep
playing Nintendo and reading comic books on the couch next to…
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Aaron Schneider's clean, laid-back drama
Get Low
has a great advantage: a meaty part for Robert Duvall. Duvall
plays Felix Bush-a cranky old cuss who keeps a…
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Dover Koshashvili's
The Duel
is a slow burn. He films Anton Chekhov's celebrated short story
with such grace that we never notice him ratcheting up the tension.
Movies |
"I'm looking for my dad," declares Ree Dolly, and as she says the
words, a wolf we didn't even know was lurking uncurls from its
sleep and walks into the…
DVD |
"If you could just see facts flat-on, without that horrible moral
squint," laments Cardinal Wolsey (Orson Welles) of Thomas More.
It's one of writer Robert…
