Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Theeb (ذيب) (2014)

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Director: Naji Abu Nowar. Cast: Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat, Hussein Salameh Al-Sweilhiyeen, Hassan Mutlag Al-Maraiyeh. 100 min. United Arab Emirat...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

Cartel Land (2015)

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Director: Matthew Heineman. 100 min. Rated R. Mexico/USA. Documentary. This Oscar-nominated documentary can be considered a companion piec...
Friday, January 22, 2016

When Marnie Was There (Omoide no Mânî) (2014)

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Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi. 103 min. Rated PG. Japan. Animation. I wouldn't be spoiling anything if I said in Studio Ghibli's ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Joy (2015)

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Director: David O. Russell. Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Édgar Ramírez, Diane Ladd, Virginia Madsen, Isabella Ro...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Mustang (2015)

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Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven. Günes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu. 97 min. Rated PG-13. Turkey/France/Qatar/Germany. Drama....

What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)

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Director: Liz Garbus. 101 min. Not Rated. Documentary. Same problem I had with another musician biopic this year, up for an Oscar ( Amy ):...

The Danish Girl (2015)

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Director: Tom Hooper. Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw, Matthias Schoenaerts, Sebastian Koch. 119 min. Rated ...

Goodnight Mommy (Ich seh ich seh) (2014)

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Director(s): Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz. Cast: Susanne Wuest, Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz. 99 min. Rated R. Austria. Mystery/Horror.  ...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

My Top 10 Movies of 2015

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. When an Oscar season front-runner is a movie like Spotlight   (at most, considered 'decent'), and the tides are turned by a last-...

45 Years (2015)

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Director: Andrew Haigh. Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay. 95 min. Rated R. UK. Drama/Romance. During the week leading up to an el...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

The Lobster (2015)

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Director: Yorgos Lanthimos. Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Ben Wishaw, John C. Reilly, Léa Seydoux. 118 min. Rated R. Ireland/UK/Greece/...

The Look of Silence (2014)

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Director: Joshua Oppenheimer. 103 min. Rated PG-13. Documentary. The Act of Killing hit us with a blast, and Oppenheimer's companion ...