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 …
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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 …
The Gatekeepers
The commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War has re-introduced heated debate over the Bush …
Admission
Paul Weitz sure has an interestingly off-kilter approach to material. Having kicked his directing career off with outrageous teen comedy …
Any Day Now
What happens when a sassy drag queen (Alan Cumming) and a buttoned up lawyer (Garret Dillahunt) seek to gain custody …
Stoker
In a dreamy bit of voiceover narration at the start, India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) tells us, “We are not responsible …
West of Memphis
West of Memphis is one of those stories that we would like to believe can’t really be true. A monumental …
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