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Review: The Last Duel
Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel is that rare occasion in which I went into a movie nearly blind. Sure, the credentials behind the movie were plain to see. But seeing as I’m one who isn’t too interested in history, the story wasn’t familiar to me. Hell, I even thought that the “duel” that the title…
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Review: Stillwater
Tom McCarthy’s Stillwater is a lot of movie, which is both its flaw and its virtue. By the end of its nearly two and a half hour runtime, you will have felt every minute of it- in other words, there is certainly two and a half hours worth of material. It is long, yet in…
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Review: No Sudden Move
Remember when Steven Soderbergh announced he was retiring? Doesn’t that feel like eons ago? Back in 2013, he announced that Side Effects (which, don’t judge, is probably my favorite of his movies) was to be his last theatrical release because he was fed up with the business. Yet like Jack Twist once said to Ennis…
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A Trip Back To: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
By Christian DiMartino There’s something about Ripley. One of the most fascinating elements in Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley is the immediate approach to the film’s central character, Tom Ripley. Ripley has been portrayed in film before, and there are multiple novels written by the late, great Patricia Highsmith (The Price of Salt, a.k.a. Carol, Strangers on a…
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Review: Jason Bourne
By Christian DiMartino Jason Bourne has emerged from the shadows once again in, well, Jason Bourne, and my question is: Can’t we just leave this guy alone? The last time we saw Bourne (Matt Damon, still rocking it even though he has a few years on him now) was nine years ago, in the spectacular The Bourne…
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Great Movies: The Departed
By Christian DiMartino I find it baffling that Martin Scorsese didn’t win an Oscar until The Departed. I mean sure, it was very well earned. But he should have picked up gold for Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Goodfellas, to say the least. Still, his Oscar for The Departed was very well deserved, not even because the decades of snubbing, but also…
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Oscars 2016: The Final Predictions
By Christian DiMartino The end is near… I start making my Oscar predictions fairly early, and I have to say: This year is a tough one to crack. Why? Simple: There were too many good movies. Things that once seemed like sure things (Steve Jobs) are out. And alas, it has come to the final…
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Why ‘The Martian’ Won’t Win Best Picture, and Other Oscar Predictions
By Christian DiMartino Man, what a year for film it has been. A year so great, that great films like Love & Mercy, Sicario, and Youth will probably go nearly unrecognized. A pity, yes, but it is the truth. This race is all over the place, considering the fact that two of the main contenders, Joy and The Revenant, went un-seen…
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