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Review: Haywire

Haywire lets Michael Fassbender down. Inglourious Basterds. Hunger. X-Men: First Class. Shame. The man has more than established himself...

Review: The Grey

While the trailers are selling it as something of a horror/action hybrid, The Grey is actually a poetic, contemplative, economically-told...

Review: Anna and the Apocalypse

After watching Rare Exports last weekend, I was in the mood for another offbeat Holiday movie, and Anna and the Apocalypse—a Christmas...

Review: Wes Craven's New Nightmare

The season finale of Telltale’s Walking Dead adventure game showed up on Playstation Network way late in the day. To kill time while my...

Review: After the Storm

I was still feeling a little sick this morning, but I’m a glutton for punishment as well as a cinephile, so I willed myself out of bed,...

Review: Gravity

Gravity is no ordinary movie; it is an experience, in every conceivable sense of the word. Director Alfonso Cuaron’s fluid, free-floating...

Review: Don Jon

For some directors, it takes a few films to ease into a consistent creative voice. Others, including Martin Scorsese (Who’s That Knocking...

Review: The Wolverine

The Wolverine is the best X-Men related film to date, by far. Like The Dark Knight Rises and Skyfall, it finds its central character at...

Review: Pacific Rim

Guillermo del Toro ends the credits of his love letter to monster movies with a dedication to Ray Harryhausen and Ishiro Honda. This...

Review: Django Unchained

With Quentin Tarantino, it’s never about the story. When the maverick director chooses a premise, he leans towards the audacious, the...

Review: Skyfall

We thought we’d seen the full extent of James Bond’s “origin story” back in 2006, when Martin Campbell’s Casino Royale re-imagined the...

Review: The Man with the Iron Fists

No, the title is not a metaphor. In this bombastic kung-fu epic, the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA (also the co-writer and director) slips on a pair...

Review: Prisoners

Despite what could easily have been a bloated two-and-a-half-hour runtime, Prisoners is a thoroughly captivating dramatic roller coaster...

Review: Elysium

As with District 9, director Neill Blomkamp’s previous effort, I’ve seen several critics accuse Elysium of lacking subtlety. I disagree...

Review: Cloud Atlas

Some movies just stick with you. Some movies are so unique, innovative, experimental, and transcendent that they worm their way into your...

Review: Argo

There’s one scene in Ben Affleck’s The Town that every viewer remembers. Jeremy Renner’s character, a hotheaded street thug, joins...

Review: Looper

Loopers. Assassins hired to kill men “zapped” to them from a not-too-distant future in which technology has made murder virtually...

Review: The Breadwinner

Although the current lineup of Best Animated Feature nominees isn’t nearly as impressive as last year’s, I still took time out of my busy...

Review: ParaNorman

Ray Harryhausen, the undisputed king of stop-motion animation, often spoke of himself as an actor; his puppets were merely the medium...

Review: Batman Ninja

After months of procrastination, I finally had the opportunity (thanks to an unexpectedly short workday) to pop in my Blu-ray copy of...

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