Tag: oscar
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First Time Watch: Save the Tiger (1973)
1/2 By Christian DiMartino The big draw of Save the Tiger is the fact that it’s headlined by Jack Lemmon. An even larger draw is that Lemmon won his second Oscar for it. If both of those elements sound enticing, then Save the Tiger will deliver. Save the Tiger is a very busy film, and yet in sort of…
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First Time Watch: A Touch of Class (1973)
By Christian DiMartino When watching A Touch of Class, the film before me was funny and even charming, which I found particularly strange because the two characters at the center of it are in the middle of a love affair, and not only do we care about this relationship, but we like these two people… even…
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Review: The Birth of a Nation
By Christian DiMartino There’s a lot of buzz surrounding Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation, and that’s meant in more ways than one. On one front, the film is gaining a lot of Oscar buzz. On the other, Parker himself has received a bit of scrutiny due to a rape trial back in 1999 (for…
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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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Film Confessions: Les Miserables (2012)
By Christian DiMartino Since the Oscars are drawing near, I’m just gonna give it to you straight: They don’t always get it right. Let me just say that just because a movie seems like it should win Oscars, doesn’t mean it actually should. Case in point: Les Miserables. Just last night, I reviewed Sweeney Todd: The Demon…
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Review: Brooklyn
1/2 By Christian DiMartino Teenagers don’t get Oscar nominations very often, but when they do, they really do hit the bullseye. Saoirse Ronan took the world by storm when she appeared in Joe Wright’s Atonement. At just 13, we knew that there was something special in her, hence why she scored an Oscar nomination. Now, eight…
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Film Confessions: The Blind Side
1/2 By Christian DiMartino My girl Sandra Bullock had quite a year in 2009. First, she had a smash summer hit, The Proposal. Then, she had a huge fall flop, All About Steve. Then finally, for the cherry on top, she had a huge fall hit, The Blind Side. The results? She went home with a Razzie for Steve,…
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