Finally, with no offense to Clint Eastwood, Hollywood has found a single movie that can attempt to tell this disaster's story with hope, respect, and power.
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Foreign films can sometimes be a mixed bag, but when Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard is involved, people should take notice.
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I applaud Apatow, Mann, and their family for airing a little of their dirty laundry as a way to help us better appreciate and examine our own loads of lights and darks.
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The breathtaking filmmaking vision on display is worth the patience to see through to the end. When it's all said and done, slower than its sequels or not, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will always be the place you seek to begin your cinematic adventure into this world. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is worthy of being placed beside the outstanding epics it will eventually lead towards.
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Played with gusto and panache by Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins, the new film Hitchcock hopes to give us a look at both the persona, the man, and the woman that loved him through and through during the time of what would be his greatest achievement.
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As we enter our story set during the fall of 2008 in New Orleans, the window dressing of a mob movie is still here in Killing Them Softly. The late model cars, slicked back hair, ugly suits without ties, derogatory Italian terminology, leather jackets, hued sunglasses, and a constant cloud of exhaled cigarette smoke are everywhere to be seen, just as you might expect. However, the pulse of this setting is driven by the history of that year and season.
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Despite the dark and messy problems and places these characters are in and come from, Silver Linings Playbook is an unashamed and unabashed comedy. With that mentality and development, the film truly flourishes into one of the most crowd-pleasing movies of the year.
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The use of 3D in Life of Pi is as artistically cued and creatively appropriate as Martin Scorsese's elegant and adept use of it in Hugo from last Thanksgiving. Combined with an enthralling and exciting story, Life of Pi is one of the best and most intimate movie experiences you'll see this year.
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As a movie writer and fan of facial hair, here's my second homage to Movember. This time, I'm ranking the best movie beards.
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The Sessions shows a heartfelt and honest portrayal what the idea of sexual satisfaction and conquest mean to a person, especially one that can't just go out and perform the way everyone else can. It's certainly an unorthodox path for a true story or a feel-good movie, but The Sessions succeeds in being extremely pleasing and thought-provoking.
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As a movie fan and jealous appreciator of facial hair with an overdue itch for a fun editorial idea, I wanted to pay homage to Movember by ranking the best movie mustaches.
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When I reflect on Lincoln, the top word that comes to mind is "earnest." Spielberg, his cast, and his crew set out to tell a piece of history with wholehearted purpose and never wavered. They weren't swinging for the box office fences to hit some grandiose action home run relying on gross dramatization, theatricality, or wild war battles set to a trumpeting score.
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