My thought is if you don’t want to break so many damn cameras, extract yourself from protests where you’re going up against Israeli soldiers. In 5 Broken Cameras, a nominee for Best Documentary Feature at this year’s Academy Awards, filmmakers Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi provide an intimate look at what it’s like to be a Palestinian on the front lines of Israeli settlement expansion. They break five cameras in the process.
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Two high school friends get their pal Jeff Chang drunk on his 21st birthday and spend the rest of the night trying to get him home in time for a big interview the next morning in 21 & Over, the latest comedy from the writers of The Hangover.
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Football season is over, but the sport gets one last reprieve before the long slog to August: Undefeated, the Oscar-winning documentary about an underfunded high school football team, is now on DVD and Netflix. Entertaining and insightful, Undefeated is well worth the price of admission
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Michael Mann’s The Insider withstands the test of time, and yet few have experienced this great movie. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture back in 1999, the Al Pacino/Russell Crowe-starring movie earned only $29 million against a budget of $90 million. But money isn’t everything, right?
Wait, it is? Damn.
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The curse of the obsessive movie critic strikes again. Despite warnings and outright cautions and having ignored the telltale signs, I gave in to morbid curiosity, and morbid curiosity had its way to me. Deadfall, the aimless thriller that has recently clawed its way onto DVD, is just that: aimless. And pointless. And barely worth the words in this movie review.
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Is Skyfall the best James Bond movie ever? I’d argue no, but it’s a good argument to have. There are merits to such a question – Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition) is without question the most accomplished and legitimate director to ever take the reigns of the franchise, and he delivers a slick and beautifully crafted film – but there are also understandable criticisms.
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It was not a good day to die hard. John McClane has returned, but the yip and the ki-yay and everything that follows has been bludgeoned from the aging character. The latest Die Hard movie lacks the energy, the fun and the cleverness of the previous entries, a disappointing addition to the typically entertaining franchise.
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The next Twilight franchise is here, but with a twist: Beautiful Creatures, about a teenage boy who is drawn to a strange girl who has a strange family (sound familiar?), actually has intelligent writing. Shocking. Breathtaking. And kind of fun.
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The most talked about documentary of 2012 failed to garner an Oscar nomination, but it has my vote. Bully focuses the spotlight on an important and troubling topic that likely plagues every school in the country (if not the world). Take a guess.
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How high would the divorce rate go if they all were as amicable as the one between the title characters in Celeste & Jesse Forever? Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg star as the two former lovebirds whose continued friendship amidst their divorce causes confusion for their friends and, when other potential love interests become involved, the two of them as well.
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Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Michelle Rodriguez (????) return for Fast & Furious 6, this time with a coveted late-May release date and the opportunity to put its box office in overdrive, even taking into account the nitro-infused results from the last blockbuster film.
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Review by Nathan Samdahl (B-)
The beginning of each year is usually littered with the releases of foreign films selected for submission to the Academy Awards but that didn’t make the final cut. These entries typically have merit, but it is easy to see why they didn’t garner a coveted Oscar nomination. The Australian drama Lore falls into this group, a beautifully shot film with powerful performances but a story that lacks the emotional resonance to elevate it to the next level.
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She stole his identity, Identity Thief stole my happiness. Like a sponge where water is joy, like a Dementor at a soul buffet, like a prism that only bends darkness, Identity Thief pairs two comedic naturals and proceeds to stalk your laughter, lashing out with brutality every time you think you may want to laugh. Which isn’t often.
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A woman is depressed. She is given pills to ease her depression. The pills make her sleepwalk. While sleepwalking, she stabs her husband to death. That is the only the beginning. Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects is a twisty, alluring psychological thriller that is also the first must-see movie of 2013.
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