- 5/17/13 /
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Movie Review: In Erased, Aaron Eckhart Does Liam Neeson
Ex-black-ops guy must flex muscle to protect/save/find his family.
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- 5/17/13 /
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Edelstein: Frances Ha Is Sour, with Glimpses of Sublimity
Noah Baumbach has a hard time letting go of the notion that drama means building to humiliation.
- 5/14/13 /
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Edelstein on Star Trek Into Darkness: Prepare to Be Bombarded Into Happiness
J.J. Abrams directs the sequel to his 2009 reboot.
- 5/10/13 /
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Movie Review: Peeples Is ‘Presented’ by Tyler Perry, But Free of His Heavy-Handedness
"Presented" by Tyler Perry, but written and directed by Tina Gordon Chism.
- 5/10/13 /
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Movie Review: Fate Is Cruel and So Is Aftershock
Horror maven Eli Roth wrote, produced, and stars in this earthquake-horror thriller.
- 5/10/13 /
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Edelstein: Sarah Polley Climbs Her Own Family Tree in the Meta-Doc Stories We Tell
A documentary by the actress-turned-filmmaker.
- 5/7/13 /
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Edelstein: Why I Sort of Liked The Great Gatsby
The best thing about Baz Luhrmann’s much-anticipated/much-dreaded The Great Gatsby is that it is unmistakably F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.
- 5/3/13 /
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Movie Review: Michael Shannon Can Do Menacing, Not Mundane. The Iceman Asks Him to Do Both
There are so many good things in The Iceman that one wonders why the movie as a whole doesn’t quite work.
- 5/3/13 /
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Edelstein on What Maisie Knew: Henry James, Modern and Wrenching
Julianne Moore stars in this modern version of a Henry James story.
- 5/2/13 /
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Edelstein: Iron Man 3 Succeeds by Skimping on the Iron Man
Director Shane Black understands that no actor can triumph over a cartoon tin man.
- 4/26/13 /
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Edelstein on Pain & Gain: Michael Bay Hits New Levels of Artistry and Sleaziness
The new film stars Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson.
- 4/26/13 /
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Movie Review: Don’t RSVP to The Big Wedding
The cast does its best, but there's little to celebrate here.
- 4/25/13 /
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Edelstein: A Tree-Dwelling Matthew McConaughey Steals the Show in Mud
This is the third feature by the Arkansas-born director Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories and Take Shelter).
- 4/19/13 /
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Edelstein: The Lords of Salem Is Rob Zombie’s Satanic Answer to Malick’s To the Wonder
It’s To the Horror.
- 4/19/13 /
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Edelstein: Everything in Oblivion Feels 100 Percent Inauthentic
Was Tom Cruise trying to beat out fellow Scientologist John Travolta for the honor of starring in the dumbest sci-fi epic ever?
- 4/12/13 /
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Edelstein on Ken Loach’s The Angels’ Share: A Wee Dram of Bliss
The Angels’ Share is a rare upbeat Ken Loach comedy.
- 4/11/13 /
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Movie Review: In 42, If You’re Good at Baseball, Nothing Else Really Matters
In this Jackie Robinson biopic, the great American gods of capitalism and baseball triumph over racism, provincialism, and ignorance.
- 4/11/13 /
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Edelstein on To the Wonder: Round and Round It Swirls. Where It Stops, Who the Hell Knows?
Terrence Malick's latest hunts for big ideas, but doesn't turn up much.
- 4/5/13 /
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Movie Review: Redford’s The Company You Keep Is Almost Confrontational in Its Classicism
A welcome return to form for Redford the director, if not Redford the star.
- 4/5/13 /
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Edelstein on Evil Dead: Years From Now, Will Anyone Choose to Watch This Over the Original?
Sam Raimi, who directed the original, co-produced this remake.