Movie Review: Before Midnight
Jesse and Celine are back to complete the lowest grossing trilogy of all time. Before Midnight continues the evolution of the couple from a brief …
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Movie Review: Before Sunset
Before Sunset drops a tiny bit of darkness into the magic, transforming it into something bigger than its initial scope. Jesse and Celine’s first meeting …
Movie Review: Upstream Color
Writer/Director/Producer/Editor/(Botanist?) Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color is almost the opposite of his Sundance breakthrough, Primer. The latter is a verbose overly plot driven low-budget thriller about …
Movie Review: Toy Story 3
Toy Story 3 is Pixar’s piece de resistance. Coupling the originality of the first Toy Story with the pathos of the second one, Toy Story …
Movie Review: Amour
Love means never having to say you’re sorry. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Love is …
Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow was riding high in 2010. She just became the first female director to win Best Director at the Oscars over her ex-husband, and …
Movie Review: Django Unchained
Revisionist history is a term that gets thrown around a lot, especially in the media. Quentin Tarantino uses those words as a challenge. Similar to …
Movie Review: Life of Pi
What audiences were waiting for: the cross between Cast Away, Contact, and Titanic. Life of Pi is a tremendous motion picture. It is equal parts …
Movie Review: Cloud Atlas
Watching Cloud Atlas feels like watching 2001: A Space Odyssey. In its time, 2001 was panned by audiences and critics alike; after a few generations, …
Movie Review: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Return of the Jedi is the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King’s cautionary tale. After the triumph of Empire Strikes Back, Return of …