Moviegoers raised on the shrillness of American cartoons might not know what to think at first about the comparative calm of Japan’s Studio Ghibli. It was founded in the mid-1980s by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, and its anime offerings are a blissful antidote to the mania of Westernized family flicks. That contrast is particularly […]
Phil Bacharach
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Film review: Force Majeure
Early in Force Majeure, a young, good-looking family — father, mother, son and daughter — is having lunch at an outdoor restaurant of a ski resort in the French Alps. The vista, a gleaming and snow-packed mountain, is almost overwhelmingly spectacular. A controlled explosion in the distance triggers an avalanche that commands the attention of […]
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Here’s what to look forward to the next few months, which should bear plenty of gifts for Oklahoma City moviegoers.
Here’s what to look forward to the next few months, which should bear plenty of gifts for Oklahoma City moviegoers.
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The stakes are high in Christopher Nolan’s universe. If you don’t leave the theater feeling a bit dazed, then the man hasn’t done his job.
The stakes are high in Christopher Nolan’s universe. If you don’t leave the theater feeling a bit dazed, then the man hasn’t done his job.
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Film review: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Birdman, which opens Friday in Oklahoma City, is audaciously exhilarating and wonderfully weird.
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Listen Up Philip is smart, sharp send-up of literary life
He is alternately narcissistic and self-loathing, his triumphs being without rival, his sufferings unbearable. Philip Lewis Friedman is a writer.
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The Blue Room delivers suspense, sex, foul play
Suspense cannot live on ambiguity alone.
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Film review: The Skeleton Twins
As evidenced by Maggie and Milo in the dramedy The Skeleton Twins, what binds family can look an awful lot like the shackles of self-destruction.
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Film review: The Equalizer
The Home Depots and Lowes of the world can be mighty intimidating for those of us whose idea of home improvement means hiring a professional.
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Film review: T-Rex
32-year-old Newcastle native Mickey Reece has been astonishingly proliferative since he began directing in 2008, tackling a litany of genres with his stock company of actors.