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Review: Former Israeli security chiefs open up regarding their campaign against Palestine in ‘The Gatekeepers’
Film Comments Mar 27, 2013 4:58pmWhy is the Middle East so damnably complicated? You can spend a few semesters at a university reading books like The Arab World by Peter Mansfield and Six Days of War by Michael B. Oren. Or you could...
CineList, 3.28.13
Film Comments Mar 27, 2013 4:36pmNEW RELEASESPICK - The Gatekeepers (PG-13, 101 mins) See review, this issue. Suncoast.G.I. Joe: Retaliation (PG-13, 110 mins) Big name action stars (Bruce Willis, Channing Tatum) shoot machine guns...
Review: ‘Spring Breakers’ is a beach blanket breakdown
Film Comments Mar 20, 2013 6:29pmHarmony Korine occupies a very specific orbit in the movie industry, maintaining enough traction from being a hipster enfant terrible to make a career out of self-indulgent examinations of the...
Review: Park Chan-Wook’s Hitchcockian ‘Stoker’ is a masterful English-language debut
Film Comments Mar 20, 2013 6:25pmPark Chan-Wook’s films have been the first exposure to Korean cinema for many western viewers. His revenge trifecta — Oldboy, Lady Vengeance, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance — are jaw-dropping in terms of...
CineList, 3.21.13
Film Comments Mar 20, 2013 5:16pmNew ReleasesAdmission (PG-13, 117 mins) A Princeton admissions officer (Tina Fey) visits the school overseen by an old classmate (Paul Rudd), and risks her career to help his student (Nat Wolff), who...
James Franco in Spring Breakers makes us wonder: Can white actors play black?
Film Comments Updated: Mar 27, 2013 3:38pmIN CINEMASPEAK, to say a white dude is “acting black” means he’s behaving like a stereotypical version of an African-American male. He’s adopting a posture of extremes in an affected urban patois...
More grist for the mill: Mockable moments in Vegas magic
Film Comments Updated: Mar 15, 2013 3:17pmRegardless of the antics in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Hollywood will have difficulty conjuring forth public mishaps to match those of Vegas’ celebrity magicians and wannabes….Scarlett,...
Review: Vegas-themed ‘Burt Wonderstone’ is old tricks, new dog
Film Comments Updated: Mar 15, 2013 3:21pmMaybe it’s the Las Vegas connection, but The Incredible Burt Wonderstone seems more entertaining in hindsight than it does while sitting through it. Maybe “endearing” is a more appropriate adjective...
CineList, 3.14.13
Film Comments Mar 13, 2013 6:26pmNew ReleasesThe Call (R, 95 mins) 911 operator Jordan Turner (Halle Berry) must face a killer from her past when she receives a call from an abducted girl. Opens wide.The Incredible Burt Wonderstone...
Baum’s bombs: These films are the ooze of Oz
Film Comments Mar 06, 2013 5:49pmOf L. Frank Baum’s 125 writing credits on IMDB, only 12 aren’t spun from The Wizard of Oz, and nine of those are shorts Baum threw together in the early 20th century. Making room for Wicked, there...
