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When director Ariel Vromen first approached Michael Shannon about playing hit man Richard “Richie” Kuklinski in his biopic The Iceman, Shannon at first suggested he might want to find a bigger star to carry the movie. But Vrome...
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There’s no denying that Robert Downey Jr. makes a good Tony Stark/Iron Man. He’s not as steely and cold as Christian Bale’s Batman, but he doesn’t need to be. Stark is a bit of an egotistical smart-ass and that comes naturally ...
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At the start of The Company You Keep, newspaper reporter Ben Shepard (Shia LaBeouf) exposes lawyer James Grant (Robert Redford) as a fraud in the wake of the arrest of one of his fellow radicals (Susan Sarandon) and reveals his...
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There’s very little gray area in 42, a biopic about Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson, the first African American on a major league team. As played by Chadwick Boseman, Robinson is a guy who elicits our sympathy after Dodgers own...
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Whether or not you believe that dark, other-worldly forces menaced a Long Island family in the 1970s, it’s clear minutes into the documentary My Amityville Horror (now on VOD) that at least one person was and is still truly hau...
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Aside from a few well-choreographed martial arts sequences, G.I. Joe Retaliation has little going for it. An ill-conceived sequel to 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, it starts out with a scene in which the G.L. Joes are betr...
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Given the epic quality of his “Vengeance Trilogy,” we had great expectations for Stoker, the English language debut from Korean director Park Chan-wook. And in terms of visual style, Stoker certainly has plenty going for it. Th...
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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...
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We initially didn’t have high hopes for The Croods, an animated feature about a group of prehistoric cave dwellers whose lives are interrupted when the earth’s plates begin to shift. Wild man Nicolas Cage voices Grug, the famil...
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Probably better suited to movie-going families than adults expecting something along the lines of Steve Carell comedies such as The 40 Year Old Virgin or Dinner for Schmucks, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is both a loving tri...