Rosewater
Having already upended our expectations by using a comic forum to present whip-smart commentary on the news of the day …
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Relationships Define ‘The Theory of Everything’
It is difficult to assess films about brilliant thinkers without making reference to Ron Howard’s Academy Award winner A Beautiful …
Beyond the Lights
We live in a world where Pop princesses rise and flame out with such regularity that we tend to forget …
Tommy Lee Jones: At Home on Either Side of the Camera
Sometimes all an artist needs is the right muse, and in Mary Bee Cuddy, played by the ever-reliable period performer …
Laggies
During an unusually crowded opening day at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Lynn Shelton’s Laggies became the obtrusive hump …
A Music Legend Struggles to Hang Onto Himself
Regional audiences settling down to the James Keach documentary Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me will likely experience a sense of …
Horns
Ig Perrish (Daniel Radcliffe) has loved Merrin Williams (Juno Temple) since they were kids and, as flashbacks reveal, Merrin loves …
The Technical Virtue of Andrea Riseborough
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s latest film Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) poses several perplexing challenges for the performers onscreen, …
Dear White People
It is ironic that writer-director Justin Simien displays such assurance over material that is so fraught with uncertainty. The subjects …
A Master of Art Forgery Eludes Dogged Local Tracker
The dynamic between art forger Mark Landis and former museum registrar/Cincinnati resident Matthew Leininger is the mythic and existential stuff …
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