Film Reviews
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Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
The quirky auteur returns to live action with a tender, coming of age story. But if you're anti-'Wes'etic, you have a brand new target to rail at.
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Prometheus (Ridley Scott)
Ridley Scott's long awaited return to the Alien universe is an incredible spectacle, but is it a good movie?
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Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)
The modest independent film has turned into the biggest buzz on the blogosphere. Did they hype get too big or does the festival favorite deserve to blow up?
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God Bless America (Bobcat Goldthwait)
Bobcat Goldthwait delivers another biting satire directed straight at the heart of American popular culture.
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The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar)
The film intrigues and unsettles with its issues of transgenesis, sexual and gender identity, but its themes feel conflicted and lack a penetrating continuity.
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The Hunger Games (Gary Ross)
Conceptually brilliant but can The Hunger Games survive the transformation from page to screen.
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Once Upon A Time In Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Last year's co-winner of the Cannes Film Festival's Grand Prix is every bit as challenging, human, and rewarding as the Turkish master's previous works.
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Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
A unique hybrid of the fictional drama, childhood adventure, and biopic, Scorsese’s latest captures his belief in film and mechanical preservation.
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (John Madden)
With its starry cast and far-flung location, it was inevitable that The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel would become a hit at the UK Box Office. But is it actually any good?
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The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius )
On the heels of its Oscar win, No Ripcord finally decided they should review the "Best Picture of 2011." So now, instead of examining whether it lived up to the hype, we can look at the movie once again as a movie. So, does it succeed on its own terms?
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