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Film Reviews

Life of Pi

Absurd, remarkable to behold

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // Nov 21,2012 - It’s going to be fascinating to watch what part of Life of Pi might wind up irritating viewers most: its decidedly Unitarian-Universalist religious leanings,

Film Reviews

Lincoln

An epic pursuit of pragmatic politics

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // Nov 16,2012 - “Compromise … or you risk it all,” the president of the United States warns an ideologically rigid member of his own party—and no, you haven’t just walked into a Campaign 2012 reality show.

Film Reviews

Skyfall

The continued relevance of James Bond

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // Nov 9,2012 - It’s hard not to walk away from the thrilling Skyfall with the impression that the James Bond franchise is feeling just a touch … defensive.

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Wuthering Heights

Cutting to the heart of the matter

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // Nov 9,2012 - Yes, there are mist-covered moors and tragic romantic entanglements. But in other fairly significant ways, this isn’t the Wuthering Heights you may think you know.

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Wreck-It Ralph

Building the wrong universe

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // Nov 2,2012 - In the realm of fantasy fiction, they call it “world-building”: the appeal of an entirely distinct universe, perhaps based on some future of our own world, perhaps set somewhere and sometime else entirely.

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Flight

A nose dive for Denzel & Zemeckis

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // Nov 2,2012 - Director Robert Zemeckis has spent a decade focused entirely on photo-realistic computer animation like The Polar Express and A Christmas Carol. With Flight—his first live-action feature since Cast Away in 2000

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Cloud Atlas

Compelling stories, grandiose cacophony

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // Oct 26,2012 - There is nobility in striving for a cause that seems foolhardy, toward a goal that—if reached—could bring greater joy and understanding to the world.

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Paranormal Activity 4

Sinking into tedious irrelevance

By MaryAnn Johanson
POSTED // Oct 19,2012 - You’ve seen those TV ads for the Paranormal Activity movies in which night-visioned moviegoers jump and scream at the latest PA flick they were lucky enough to get an advanced showing of.

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Argo

Ben Affleck shows his skills as a director of suspense

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // Oct 12,2012 - It seems absurd to those who still associate him with Daredevil, J-Lo and Gigli, but when our backs were all turned, Ben Affleck became a Serious Filmmaker.

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Seven Psychopaths

Violent, profane and relentlessly funny

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // Oct 12,2012 - Maybe you don’t know the name Martin McDonagh yet. Maybe even if you saw his 2008 feature debut, In Bruges, you didn’t register the filmmaker. But please put this guy on your list of the most brilliantly inventive comic filmmakers in the world.
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