Most movies sell some sort of fantasy: True love is real; good always triumphs over evil; all dogs go to heaven.…
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When film critics talk about a star's performance, they usually resort to clichés. The actor always "lights up the…
Greta Gerwig is not Zooey Deschanel, and we should be thankful for that. In mumblecore movies like Hannah Takes the…
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People go to inspirational sports movies not in spite of their predictability but because of it. Other than romantic…
When we first meet Simon, he's not unlike a lot of twentysomething guys you knew after college. Recently graduated,…
For director Danny Boyle, anything worth doing is worth overdoing. With each genre of movie he makes, you get the…
Director Derek Cianfrance's last film, Blue Valentine, was a crushing study of a couple (played by Ryan Gosling and…
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It's common for film sites to do some kind of "career advice" column where they analyze a Hollywood star's…
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Come Sunday night, you may embark on that annual ritual: Filling out the bottom of your Oscar pool entry, pretending…
Everybody is happy for Melissa McCarthy. After years on TV shows (Gilmore Girls, Mike & Molly) and small parts in…
Spending a week at the Sundance Film Festival, you can see a little bit of everything: horror movies, activist…
When Mark Wahlberg is at his best, it doesn't look as if he's acting. In fact, it hardly seems as if he's even…