May 2011
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narration wefts together the warp of interviews and testimony supporting the single thesis of ”Inside Job” (2010).
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a graceful meditation on grieving, ”Rabbit Hole” (2010) never gets in its own way.
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starting at the ending suffocates love’s beginning: “Blue Valentine” (2010).
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“If someone were to ask me what Woody Allen movie would be the best for them to view, seeing as they’d never seen a Woody film before… I would advise that they steer clear of Annie Hall…”
— Trevor Seigler
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“Not prayer ‘to’ anyone or anything, but prayer ‘about’ everyone and everything.”
— Roger Ebert on The Tree of Life
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5 episodes into “Treme”, feeling little connection to the characters, nor interest in their story. is there any reason to keep watching?
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the camera gambols onto the stage, penetrating the dancers’ inner space, throughout the “Black Swan” (2010).
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embed with a Marine platoon in Iraq: “Generation Kill ” (2008), a straight-up war movie, 470 minute long.
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Not every story has explosions and car chases. That’s why they have nudity...
– Gene Ambaum & Bill Barnes
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