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Fast & Furious 6

The idea of action without the execution

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // May 24,2013 - We couldn’t have seen this franchise coming—not this way, not the thing it has become. A dozen years ago, The Fast & the Furious was just a throwaway little actionsploitation pic about L.A. street racing, full of testosterone

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The Hangover Part III

Wolf Pack it in, already

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // May 23,2013 - When The Hangover Part II was released two years ago and turned out to be virtually a note-for-note duplication of the original, many of us found ourselves thinking, “Couldn’t they do something new?”

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Star Trek Into Darkness

A different vision of the future

By MaryAnn Johanson
POSTED // May 15,2013 - There’s a thing that makes me very sad about Star Trek Into Darkness. It’s not the perfect geek storm of an opening gambit that evokes not only the old-school boldly going adventures of the crew of the starship Enterprise,

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The Great Gatsby

Baz Luhrmann's problem is more than not showing proper respect

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // May 10,2013 - What if Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby didn’t have to carry the burden of “The Great Gatsby”? That’s not just some Zen koan-like riddle intended to inspire deep meditation; it’s a question about the way we look at a movie

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Iron Man 3

Man inside the armor takes center stage

By MaryAnn Johanson
POSTED // May 3,2013 - The least interesting thing about the otherwise hugely entertaining Iron Man movies is, ironically, Iron Man. The suit of powered flying armor, that is. Hiding Robert Downey Jr. behind a metal mask an

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To the Wonder

Emotionally ambitious but diffuse

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // May 3,2013 - Somewhere, somewhen, our culture became openly antagonistic to poetry. And that’s making it too easy to dismiss Terrence Malick for the wrong reasons.

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The Company You Keep

Making the morality of activism a snooze

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // Apr 26,2013 - Robert Redford hasn’t exactly been shy about his passionate, progressive political commitment over the years. So why does it seems so hard for him to make movies about passionately committed people

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Oblivion

Deja viewing with Tom Cruise

By MaryAnn Johanson
POSTED // Apr 19,2013 - Go on! Indulge in the very best movie-promo tie-in ever: the Oblivion-branded Mandatory Memory Wipe, available at the concession stand. Then walk into Oblivion with no recollection of 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Upstream Color

Bizarre elements can't obstruct human drama

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // Apr 19,2013 - For all those who found themselves perplexed beyond measure by Shane Carruth’s 2004 debut feature, the infinitely mind-bendy time-travel yarn Primer: It’s not nearly as complicated keeping

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42

A string of feel-good homilies

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // Apr 12,2013 - At a pivotal moment in the new Jackie Robinson biopic 42, Brooklyn Dodgers owner Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford) tries to console Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), who’s furious over the abuse and humiliation he’s required to
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