Review: ‘War Horse’
Steven Spielberg, contemporary film’s sentimental serialist, strikes again with this heart-tugging story about young Albert (Jeremy Irvine), a British farm …
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Forward Thinking: A 2011 Film Preview
Annual top 10 lists and Oscar prognosticating derail forward progress for the first couple of months of the new year …
Review: ‘The Green Hornet’
For a genre based on color-splashed frames of superhuman heroics, comic book adaptations sure have gotten heavy-handed in their attempts …
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As an audience member of a certain age (and gender), I can remember being titillated by my first glimpse of …
Accompanied at the Top
Every year’s top 10 list feels a bit incomplete due to the nature of the release schedule in the Midwest. …
Discovering the Gifts of the Movie Magi
The prestigious awards season has dropped an early bounty on a number of films that have already come and gone …
Drawing ‘True Grit’ Into Focus
To tell the truth, rumors of a legendary remake eclipsed the very serious discussion of “A Serious Man,” the Coen …
Review: ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader’
As with the “Harry Potter” series, I feel it is best to open with an admission. I have never read …
Review: ‘Black Swan’
Natalie Portman is all grown up and the proof is in her searing portrayal of the innocent perfectionist Nina in …
When the Tourist Isn’t the Tourist
Milo Weaver, a CIA black-ops field agent known as a “Tourist” in the trade, is a late-30-something man without a …
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