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While writer-director Spike Jonze’s new film Her makes the most of a good gimmick (man falls in love with Siri-like computer voice), Her transcends the subject matter. Part of the credit belongs to Joaquin Phoenix, who turns in...
This is the kind of movie you either love or hate. We hated it. Not sure who had the bright idea of handing art house auteur and all-around weirdo Harmony Korine (Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy) the reins to a film about a group of h...
It’s not hard to miss the controversy at the core of Zero Dark Thirty, director Kathryn Bigelow’s (The Hurt Locker) drama about the pursuit of Osama Bin Laden. The movie opens with a scene in which CIA agent Dan (Jason Clarke)...
Killing Them Softly writer-director Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) has said he sought to bring out the relevance of George V. Higgins’s 1974 novel Cogan’s Trade about the criminal un...
We love the films of Paul Thomas Anderson, the guy behind cult classics such as Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Hard Eight and There Will Be Blood. And yet The Master, his much-anticipated latest opus, doesn’t measure up to previous e...
Australian director John Hillcoat is particularly adept at handling dark, violent source material. He explored themes of revenge and redemption in 2005’s The Proposition and 2009’s The Road. He’s at it again in Lawless, a perio...