Ex Machina
Writer-director Alex Garland (writer-producer of 28 Days Later and Sunshine) engineers a film in Ex Machina that speaks to the …
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True Story
New York Times Magazine reporter Michael Finkel (Jonah Hill), a rising journalistic star that played poker like a champion because …
While We’re Young
Writer-director Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha) sets out in his latest film, While We’re Young, to skewer the pretensions and First …
Merchants of Doubt
I thoroughly appreciate the conceit that documentary director Robert Kenner (Food, Inc.) uses to introduce his latest feature — Merchants …
It Follows
Following (pun intended) on the heels of writer-director Jennifer Kent’s mesmerizing horror reinvention The Babadook comes another relative multi-hyphenate newbie …
Red Army
Documentary director Gabe Polsky, one of the producers of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, conceptualized Red Army, it …
Black or White
What we’re talking about when we talk about race depends on our individual perspectives, but it is not the talking …
The Imitation Game
Morten Tyldum’s new biopic, The Imitation Game, was a crowd-pleaser at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival; one of an …
Into the Woods
Right off the bat, I should note that I’m not a fan of musicals (either on stage or as movie …
Unbroken
This lovingly rendered World War II-era biopic of Louis Zamperini (Jack O’Connell), an Olympic runner and member of a bombardier …
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