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The Oscars! Read our reviews of the best picture nominees
Planning to watch the Academy Awards this weekend? We've got movie reviews for some of the best picture nominees, as well as plenty of other films that weren't nominated, but were considered top films...
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Draft horse
Article Author: Patrick McCormick Steven Spielberg’s latest film is a testament to war’s silent soldier.“Home is the sailor, home from the sea, and the hunter home from the hill,” wrote Robert Louis...
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Curious about George
Article Author: Patrick McCormick Hollywood’s leading actor shines in roles that show success doesn’t always bring happiness.My seventh-grade English teacher once asserted that although the word...
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Watch: Moneyball
Article Author: Elizabeth Lefebvre Directed by Bennett Miller (Sony Pictures, 2011)Baseball can conjure up nostalgic images of peanuts and crackerjacks, sunny days, and cornfields in Iowa. But Bennett...
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Watch: Extremely loud & Incredibly close
Article Author: Patrick McCormick Directed by Stephen Daldry (Paramount, 2011)Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 novel about a 9-year-old boy whose father is killed on 9/11 angered and touched a lot of...
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Watch: A Separation
Article Author: Patrick McCormick Directed by Asghar Farhadi (Sony Pictures, 2011)We all tell stories, and we all believe our stories are true. But the small gaps between our stories and the truth can...
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Watch: We Have a Pope
Article Author: Patrick McCormickDirected by Nanni Moretti (Sundance Selects, 2012)Nanni Moretti’s lighthearted and melancholic comedy introduces us to a gentle and frail cleric who would not be...
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Watch: Bernie
Article Author: Patrick McCormick Directed by Richard Linklater (Millennium Entertainment, 2012)At the end of Annie Hall Woody Allen tells a joke about a guy whose brother thinks he is a chicken, but...
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Watch: The second season of Treme, DVD
Article Author: Patrick McCormick Created by David Simon (HBO Entertainment, 2012)David Simon, whose HBO series The Wire was the best cinematic novel ever produced for television, has completed the...
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How terribly strange to be 70
Article Author: Patrick McCormick Even in their autumn years, Baby Boomers discover that old dogs can learn new tricks.Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of...
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Watch: Safety Not Guaranteed
Article Author: Patrick McCormick Directed by Colin Trevorrow (Film District, 2012)Director Colin Trevorrow and screenwriter Derek Connolly’s touching sci-fi misadventure about time travel looks like...
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Watch: Argo
Article Author: Elizabeth Lefebvre Directed by Ben Affleck (Warner Brothers, 2012)Films based on true events face the dual challenge of making real life captivating on the big screen and of keeping a...
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Watch: Flight
Article Author: Patrick McCormickFlight Directed by Robert Zemeckis (Paramount, 2012)Ernest Hemingway wrote that courage was “grace under pressure,” and in Flight director Robert Zemeckis has created a...
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Watch: A Royal Affair
Article Author: Patrick McCormickDirected by Nikolaj Arcel (Magnolia Pictures, 2012)Danish director Nikolaj Arcel’s historical romance, nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, tells how...
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Watch: Amour
Article Author: John ChristmanDirected by Michael Haneke (2012, Austria)A pigeon flies through an open window of an elderly couple’s apartment. An aging piano teacher, partially paralyzed from a...
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Watch: Promised Land
Article Author: Molly Jo RoseDirected by Gus Van Sant (Focus Features, 2013)The film Promised Land asks the question: Who is the bad guy? Is it the big, greedy company that wants to destroy traditional...
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Watch: Quartet
Article Author: Patrick McCormickDirected by Dustin Hoffman (Weinstein Company, 2012)Imagine a kindergarten full of wildly talented octogenarians preparing to put on a school musical and you have a...
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Watch: To the Wonder
Article Author: John ChristmanDirected by Terrence Malick (Redbud Pictures, 2013)Over the course of 40 years auteur filmmaker Terrence Malick has made just five feature films. Yet these films have been...
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Watch: No
Article Author: John ChristmanDirected by Pablo Larraín (Sony Pictures, 2012)Topple a dictator with a rainbow and a jingle? Lash back against oppression with candy-coated images and idyllic picnic...
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Watch: Sign Painters
Article Author: Meghan Murphy-GillBy Faythe Levine & Sam Macon (Radar Studios, 2013)A commercial building in my neighborhood recently underwent renovations to transform the space into a gym. As...
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