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Do you think Pixar, the animation studio behind Up, ever gets tired of the monotony of good press? “Pixar’s done it again!” “Pixar’s knocked another one out of the park!” “Pixar can do no wrong!” “Pixar hasn’t [...]

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When director Sam Raimi slums it in Hollywood, he makes tiny movies like the Spider-Man trilogy. So it was with great and perverse pleasure that many greeted his return to the form that made him famous — [...]

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Steven Soderbergh is an enigma. While many filmmakers vacillate to some degree between populist, studio fare and the occasional artsy project, Soderbergh possesses a cinematic schizophrenia all his own. The man who burst onto the scene and [...]

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Contrary to popular belief, there is something far worse than a demonstrably bad film and that is a film with boundless but ultimately squandered potential. Terminator: Salvation is such a movie. It arrives onscreen emboldened with such [...]

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Eat your heart out Wes Anderson. Ever since the sublime Rushmore, director Wes Anderson’s films have arrived on a slippery scale of diminished returns, visually transcendent but emotionally vacant. As if implicitly understanding that nature abhors such [...]

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Gigantic is the sort of kitchen sink movie many first-time directors make, mistakenly believing that they have to throw every idea they’ve ever come up with into just one film in case they never get a chance [...]

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We’ve all heard it or said it at one time or another: “If you liked the movie, you’re going to love the book.” While the limitations and misconceptions of literary adaptation preclude it from often being said, [...]

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There is a sequence in the new Star Trek in which one character attempts to unseat another’s command by arguing that the leader is too emotionally compromised by the situation to be of any [...]

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