Film Reviews
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Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)
Derek Cianfrance's debut film chronicles the dizzying highs and the drawn-out lows of modern relationships with a great deal of skill and attention to detail in the Oscar-nominated Blue Valentine.
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True Grit (Joel and Ethan Coen)
The Coen's deliver right on schedule.
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Paranoia Agent (Satoshi Kon)
This autumn I properly stumbled upon of one of the pinnacles of anime production after it elusively evaded me for over two years; the discovery reinforced the already momentous encounter by its convenient allegory for my state of affairs this year.
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Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
A gothic and opulent lamentation of the past, the majority of the collaborative film eloquently expands upon the mystic suspense of du Maurier's novel.
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Saw 3D (Kevin Greutert)
Trashy, exploitative, and as lucrative as anything to ever come down the pipe, Saw's back to pass the hat around one last time before the end, and unlike the brilliant installment we had last year, there can be no doubt: As long as it's got your money, Saw don't give a f**k.
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The Foreigner (Amos Poe)
New film reviewer Emma Hacking looks at Amos Poe's seminal 1978 no wave/punk film The Foreigner.
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Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
Elusive in tone, Morris' debut documentary about the pet cemetery business remains stuck in a limbo of questions about humanity, its need for companionship and dubious belief in an afterlife reunion with one’s cherished pets.
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The Only Son (Yasujiro Ozu)
Tackling topics of financial restraint, furthering education, personal responsibility, luck, morality, and (covertly) war, Ozu's first "talkie" remains timeless and one of his most notable works.
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Homicide (David Mamet)
A candid crime drama that unfurls into a philosophical puzzle, the film is an entertaining and intriguing quest for identity.
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Inception (Christopher Nolan)
By revisiting his enigmatic roots on a grand scale, Nolan blends the classically tense thriller with a unique enigmatic post-modernism that falls just shy of "summer blockbuster meets art house" nirvana.
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