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Director: JOSH TRANK/2015
Fantastic Four has a lot of obstacles going against it. The largest, and most obvio...
An Israeli Film That Looks at the Issue of Mercy Killing With a Touch of Dark Humor
Director: TAL GRANIT, SHARON MAYMON/2015
Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon wr...
Repression, Rebellion and Romance Among the Hassidim
How do you solve a problem like Meira? A young Hasidic Jewish mother living in Montreal, she is quietly be...
The Latest Film Adaptation of a Thomas Hardy Novel
Director: THOMAS VINTERBERG/2015
Novelist Thomas Hardy took the title of his book Far From the Maddening ...
The Reved-Up Action Franchise Says Goodbye To Paul Walker The Only Way It Knows How
DIRECTED BY JAMES WAN/2015
Jim Tudor: Big, loud, macho cool.
It took some...
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY Rises Above its Source Material
Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson/2015
The prose in the novel Fifty Shades of Grey is atrocious. It’s a la...
A Complicated Story About a Revolutionary and Musical Pioneer
DIRECTED BY ALEX GIBNEY/2014
Fela Kuti, a Nigerian revolutionary and Afrobeat pioneer, was a c...
Has the Past 10 Years of Will Smith's Career Been "Depression" or a Con? Does Focus Mean He is Back?
Director: GLENN FICARRA, JOHN REQUA/2015
You might say ...
Grey is not the Warmest Color
DIRECTED BY SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON/2015
Jim Tudor: The year long-plus onslaught of hype and advertising have been telling us that “M...
A Bleak Marriage Comedy is One of the Year's Finest Films
DIRECTOR: RUBEN ÖSTLUND/2014/Swedish
We are most truly ourselves when we’re caught in an unguarde...
