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The perks of being great young actors
Film Comments Dec 26, 2012 5:56pmThere are many reasons to love coming-of-age films, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower has them all: exotic experimentation, first love and, yeah, hurt feelings. Stephen Chbosky offers three more...
This year’s films toyed with time, shed light on the past and led the way to the future
Film Comments Updated: Jan 02, 2013 5:13pmMATT KELEMEN’S TOP 101. Beasts of the Southern WildBenh Zeitlin’s debut feature was the strongest cinematic vision of the year. The Queens-born director moved to New Orleans in 2008 and soaked up the...
Review: ‘This Is 40’ has rings of truth
Film Comments Dec 19, 2012 4:32pmLike most Judd Apatow films, This Is 40 takes a couple scenic routes toward the end, but unlike, say, Funny People, the movie doesn’t come to a complete stop and recovers from its missteps pretty...
Review: ‘Les Miserables’
Film Comments Dec 19, 2012 4:24pmSomehow, somewhere, Victor Hugo’s well-worn tale of innocence crushed, good deeds that won’t go unpunished and young French idealists lost in a bloody battle of their own making is going to move some...
Review: Quentin Tarantino gets ultra-violent in his Italian western-inspired ‘Django Unchained’
Film Comments Dec 19, 2012 3:52pmQuentin Tarantino has been on a slow journey toward making a spaghetti western his entire career. It was inevitable he would mine the part of his brain where he stored the sights and sounds of films...
CineList, 12.20.12
Film Comments Dec 19, 2012 3:18pmNEW RELEASECirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (NR, 91 mins) Two young people search for each other in a cinematic representation of Cirque du Soleil. Opens Dec. 21.Dabaang 2 (NR, 125 mins) A suave Robin...
Review: ‘Hitchcock’ is stylistically dry and dull
Film Comments Dec 14, 2012 3:18pmThe title of Hitchcock indicates a wider focus than director Sacha Gervasi (The Terminal, Anvil! The Story of Anvil) and screenwriter John J. McLaughlin (Black Swan) present. Author Stephen Rebello’s...
The Hobbit is overlong, dull and visually problematic
Film Comments Updated: Dec 19, 2012 3:10pmThis is not a film that knows exactly where it stands. It’s astonishing to think that, since Peter Jackson returns to Middle Earth having so convincingly snake-charmed J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Lord of...
Cinelist, 12.13.12
Film Comments Dec 12, 2012 5:43pm NEW RELEASE Delhi Safari (PG, 96 mins) A group of animated animals ask some pretty serious-for-a-kid-movie-questions of the Delhi government, including “Why has man become the most dangerous animal...
Review: Diane Vreeland documentary The Eye Has To Travel
Film Comments Dec 05, 2012 5:51pmEvery so often a documentary shows up profiling a fashion industry figure in danger of being forgotten, or in danger of not having his or her legacy solidified posthumously or in the December of...
