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‘The Kings of Summer:’ Those Wontons are Too Big
ReviewsJune 10, 2013

This is real life. The Kings of Summer, written by Chris Galleta and directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts, captures something so real, so true, in this beautifully shot and ...

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‘Now You See Me:’ But Don’t…See It
ReviewsMay 31, 2013

Magic movies are inherently hard to pull off. Because another, slightly related phenomenon known as “movie magic,” allows us to suspend our disbelief, magic magic often gets diluted ...

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‘Frances Ha:’ Ha Indeed
ReviewsMay 28, 2013

In Frances Ha, co-writers, co-members of the newest indie darling couple, and respective director and star Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, preserve all the good that the word ...

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‘Star Trek: Into Darkness:’ Sherlock Holmes and Man Crying
ReviewsMay 20, 2013

Star Trek is not my thing. So much so that I was one of the three people in the country who never saw the first movie. As a ...

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‘The Great Gatsby:’ Oh Baz
ReviewsMay 13, 2013

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, is the book, the novel that for whatever reason has become the forefront of the literary canon for, at this point I assume ...

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‘Iron Man 3:’ Badass Bromance
ReviewsMay 6, 2013

Inside sources* (*my brain) say that throughout the development of Iron Man 3, Shane Black (co-writer/director), Jon Favreau (executive producer of Iron Man 3, director of the first ...

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‘Oblivion:’ That’s About Right
ReviewsApril 22, 2013

In Oblivion, Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman is Splinter from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Olga Kurylenko is Catherine Zeta-Jones, Andrea Riseborough is thoroughly British, and ...

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42: The Number of Clichés in the Movie ’42′
ReviewsApril 15, 2013

I have been waiting for a great new baseball movie. I saw 42 this morning. …I am still waiting. The visible and audible problem with 42 is that ...

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‘Stitches:’ Everybody’s Happy
ReviewsApril 8, 2013

“A horror comedy about a sleazy party clown who accidentally dies at a little boy’s birthday bash then comes back six years later to seek revenge on the ...