Writer-director Michel Gondry got his start in the attention-span-challenged realm of music videos, where he learned that less is not necessarily more.
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Film review: The Trip to Italy
The pair essentially portray exaggerated versions of themselves eating their way through Italy as part of a travel piece for a London newspaper.
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Film review: Calvary
Gleeson is at his brooding best in Calvary, a tough, theologically minded film in which he portrays a Catholic priest in a small Irish coastal village.
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The swooning of critics over Boyhood has reached near-embarrassing levels. But there’s no getting around it; this is a remarkable movie.
The swooning of critics over Boyhood has reached near-embarrassing levels. But there’s no getting around it; this is a remarkable movie.
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Film review: Magic in the Moonlight
Even with the literal elephant off stage, a figurative elephant is still in the room: the ever-frustrating work of Woody Allen.
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Film review: Guardians of the Galaxy
Just when you think you have reached your up-to-here limit of a ho-hum summer movie season, up pops Guardians of the Galaxy.
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Film review: Life Itself
Roger Ebert had a wonderful life, as Frank Capra might have put it, and one that is beautifully recounted in Life Itself.
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A glum-fest is a glum-fest, and Third Person is stern, mopey and airless enough to warrant a Surgeon General’s warning.
A glum-fest is a glum-fest, and Third Person is stern, mopey and airless enough to warrant a Surgeon General’s warning.
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Venus in Fur, the latest from master filmmaker and convicted sex offender Roman Polanski, is more than meta: It’s meta meta.
Venus in Fur, the latest from master filmmaker and convicted sex offender Roman Polanski, is more than meta: It’s meta meta.
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Film review: A Hard Day’s Night
The film captures the irresistible chemistry of The Beatles, the phenomenon of Beatlemania and the stirrings of what would be a worldwide cultural explosion.