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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Unapologetically Adult

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Probably the hardest thing to accomplish when depicting a famous superhero before they became one is sacrificing the tropes we've come ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Counterfeit Sex

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Gillian Flynn's novel of a highly dysfunctional couple, a marriage of ciphers, was a sensation when it came out. When David Fincher dir...
Monday, May 11, 2015

Tonal Trouble

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When a director of Jonathan Demme's caliber sets out to tackle Ibsen, it can raise your expectations until you discover that Demme woul...
Monday, April 28, 2014

The Family Romance

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Although we live in an age of sexual explicitness, perhaps than in any other period of human history, it doesn't mean we have solved t...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

The Power of the Performance

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God knows there have been many great productions of Hamlet (and some bad ones, too), but Steve Vineberg writing in Critics at Large hasn...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Happy Gazing

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Racing car movies for some reason seldom work as drama, but Ron Howard's Rush certainly did. Phil Dyess-Nugent suggested how and why in...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Poirot R.I.P.

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As Agatha Christie's iconic detective Hercule Poirot came to a conclusion on television, Shlomo Schwartzberg revisited the series in Cr...
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