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Review: ‘Side Effects’ shows retiring Soderbergh’s craftsmanship
Film Comments Feb 06, 2013 5:20pmSince announcing his retirement from feature films about three years ago, Steven Soderbergh has pumped out six movies, each one different from the next. If it’s true that, at 50, Soderbergh is...
Review: ‘Amour’ a gift to both audiences, lead actors
Film Comments Feb 06, 2013 5:02pmOne day retired music teachers Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) and Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) are sitting down to a meal in their Parisian apartment when Anne suddenly goes into a blank-eyed trance....
Rave no more: AMC buys Town Sqaure cineplex
Film Comments Feb 06, 2013 3:21pmSomething seem different when you caught The Hobbit at Town Square?International movie exhibitor AMC has bought Rave Cinemas Town Square 18, the company’s second Las Vegas cineplex acquisition. But...
CineList, 1.31.13
Film Comments Jan 30, 2013 4:07pmNEW RELEASEBullet to the Head (R, 91 mins) A New Orleans hitman (Sylvester Stallone) forms an alliance with a detective (Sung Kang) to get the people who killed their respective partners.Sisterakas (...
Review: Pacino, Walken are stood-up ‘Guys’
Film Comments Jan 30, 2013 4:00pmPacino. Walken. There was a time that would have been enough. Actually, there have been several times those two names would have made many moviegoers perfectly happy. It’s been a while for Al Pacino...
Review: ‘Any Day Now’ relevant, resonant
Film Comments Updated: Jan 24, 2013 3:00pmYou don’t see many gay flicks in the theaters these days — even in the arthouse-oriented ones — but two titles managed to find their way onto screens nationwide recently, both diving deeply into the...
Review: Dustin Hoffman’s ‘Quartet’ has cross-generational appeal
Film Comments Updated: Jan 26, 2013 11:15amQuartet seems like an odd choice for Dustin Hoffman’s official directorial debut. It’s a quiet film set in England, with a cast slanted towards Hoffman’s age demographic. Hoffman, who began directing...
CineList, 1.24.13
Film Comments Updated: Jan 24, 2013 3:01pmNEW RELEASEAny Day Now (R, 97 mins) See review, this issue. Village SquareHansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (PG-13, 100 mins) Bounty Hunters Hansel and Gretel (Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton) track...
Review: ‘Rust and Bone’ breathes and bleeds with realism
Film Comments Jan 16, 2013 6:11pmOne of the better decisions made by the creative coterie behind Rust and Bone was to not make the female lead’s post-accident disability define her. Director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, The Beat That...
Review: Spooker ‘Mama’ weakens del Toro’s brand
Film Comments Jan 16, 2013 4:14pmGuillermo del Toro is more a brand these days than a director. Though he has a sci-fi movie called Pacific Rim in theaters this summer, it will be his first time behind the camera since the ho-hum...
