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Looking at an Inmate, Seeing an ArtistWith "Bronson," the director Nicolas Winding Refn tells the story of Britain's most violent prisoner.
New York Times Thursday, October 01, 2009Film: Jewish History, Popcorn IncludedIn the modern world, including modern cinema, to broach the idea of Jewish identity is to invoke not one crisis but many.
New York Times Thursday, October 01, 2009For Studios, Polanski's Box Office Is the KeyIt seems that Hollywood has lined up in support of Roman Polanski.
New York Times Thursday, October 01, 2009Capitalism: A Love Story"Capitalism: A Love Story" isn't Michael Moore's strongest or most focused film but the subject matter is still an important one and his ability to deliver hard facts in a light and entertaining way is still the filmmaker's strongest suit.
Comingsoon.net Thursday, October 01, 2009A Serious ManStarring: Michael Stuhlbarg Review: The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, are getting personal. They shot their new film in suburban Minnesota, where they grew up as sons of Jewish academics. But if you're expecting something warm and fuzzy, circa 1967, you don't know the Coens, and A Serious Man is no country for you. This seriously funny movie, artfully photographed by the great Roger Deakins, is spiritual in nature, barbed in tone, and, oh, yeah, it stings like hell. Watch Peter Travers' video review of A Serious Man Front and center is Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor who's getting shit from every side. Unsigned letters to the dean question his ethics and threaten his tenure. His son, Danny (the excellent Aaron Wolff), days away from his bar mitzvah, is lost in a pot daze. His daughter,... Rating: 3.5 Stars
Rolling Stone Thursday, October 01, 2009The Invention of LyingStarring: Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Rob Lowe, Jonah Hill Review: For its first stingingly funny half hour, The Invention of Lying had me thinking that Ricky Gervais had finally found a way to bring his indisputable brilliance at TV comedy (The Office, Extras) to the big screen. Then the air went out of the balloon. What a shame. Set in a parallel universe where everything looks the same but no one ever lies, this wonderfully subversive farce makes comic mincemeat of the Judeo-Christian ethic. Gervais plays Mark Bellison, a screenwriter in a
film industry so locked into truth that an epic about Napoleon consists of a dude in a smoking jacket reading from a history book. Love it. Also love Mark's blind date with Anna (a fab Jennifer Garner) who confesses she needs to go upstairs and masturbate before their date because she's never going to... Rating: 2.5 Stars
Rolling Stone Thursday, October 01, 2009Do Knot DisturbFilm Reviews: David Dhawan's big-budget sitcom is a major, slumdogging step in the right direction.
Variety Thursday, October 01, 2009I Came from Busan (Yeong-do da-ri)Film Reviews: A grimly repetitive patience-stretcher that's audacious in its intentions but merely numbing as an experience.
Variety Thursday, October 01, 2009A Beautiful LifeFilm Reviews: Misguided pic manages to provide unintentional laughs by the barrel.
Variety Thursday, October 01, 2009Review: 'Zombieland' is dead-on funnyZombieland RATING: (ALERT VIEWER)Horror comedy. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin. Directed by Ruben Fleischer. (R. 89 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) "Zombieland" is a zombie-movie satire made by people who know zombie...
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