What Maisie Knew
Based on the Henry James novel about a young girl forced to deal with the divorce and remarriages of her …
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At Any Price
What do we mean today when we refer to “all-American” ideals? What does it mean to be “all-American” in the …
Arthur Newman
Yet another holdout from last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Arthur Newman, based on a script from screenwriting veteran Becky …
The Company You Keep
Robert Redford teams up with Steven Soderbergh’s screenwriting cohort Lem Dobbs (The Limey and Haywire) to adapt Neil Gordon’s novel …
Ginger & Rosa
Novels tend to use historic moments as the framing backdrop for intimate relationships, weaving factual strands with personal threads to …
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
So often, documentaries about people and communities that live outside the modern social framework present these factions as curiosities, maintaining …
The Place Beyond the Pines
Critical analysis involves cutting through the clutter and noise, which can sometimes be quite difficult. For example, I caught The …
The Sapphires
The premise of Australian director Wayne Blair’s period musical drama, The Sapphires, reads like a Down Under version of Dreamgirls …
Brooklyn Castle
In much the same way that Bully sparked outrage over the challenging conditions this generation of children face against one …
No
How timely to watch a film about an advertising executive (Gael García Bernal) who develops a campaign to defeat a …
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