The writing/editing/directing team of Joel and Ethan Coen has long been Oscar and critical darlings, but aside from some cult favorites (Fargo, The Big Lebowski), their films have left most audiences cold. All that changes with True Grit, their most accessible, crowd-pleasing film to date. True Grit does not try to deconstruct the Western as [...]

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Watching Tron: Legacy is like witnessing a thermonuclear explosion from inside the mushroom cloud—white hot, dazzlingly intense and indescribably overpowering. Pure, unblemished spectacle, Tron: Legacy is cinematic escapism at its most thrilling and satisfying—pop [...]

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Crazy Heart arrives at a theater near you polished to a high gloss with the gushing accolades of critics and industry insiders. Some of these honors the film most certainly deserves. Others it does not. It is true that Crazy Heart contains one of the best performances by an actor this year. But the film [...]

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“More of this story is true than you would believe,” we are told in the opening moments of The Men Who Stare at Goats. It’s a fair warning and one that bears repeating the further the film slides into incredulity and absurdity. Sometimes truth is indeed stranger than fiction. No doubt intended as the comic [...]

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