- 6/14/13 /
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Movie Review: Berberian Sound Studio Is a Strange and Beautiful Homage to Seventies Horror Films
Those with a flair for the offbeat might find themselves unnerved and riveted by this film starring Toby Jones.
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- 6/14/13 /
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Ebiri on Vehicle 19: Let Us Sing the Praises of Paul Walker
One of the stars of the Fast and the Furious series leads yet another car-chase thriller.
- 6/14/13 /
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Edelstein: Before Midnight Finds Romance in the Struggle of Wills
The third entry in the Richard Linklater–Ethan Hawke–Julie Delpy relationship trilogy.
- 6/14/13 /
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Edelstein: The Bling Ring Is Sofia Coppola’s Most Stylish, Least Interesting Film
Emma Watson stars in this true story of a group of L.A. teens who broke into celebrity mansions.
- 6/13/13 /
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Edelstein on This Is the End: Friends Don’t Let Friends Face the Apocalypse Alone
James Franco, Seth Rogen, and Jonah Hill star in this end-of-the-world comedy.
- 6/12/13 /
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Edelstein on Man of Steel: A Movie So Heavy, Superman Would Have Trouble Picking It Up
Starring Henry Cavill as the latest incarnation of Superman.
- 6/7/13 /
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Edelstein: Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie — The Tortured Life of an Eighties-Talk-Show Host
The right-wing TV blowhard is the subject of this documentary.
- 6/7/13 /
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Movie Review: The Internship Is a Comedy So Lazy, It Would Be Fired Immediately
Starring Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, and Google.
- 6/6/13 /
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Movie Review: The Purge Is Very Ridiculous and Very Suspenseful
The home-invasion thriller stars Ethan Hawke and Game of Thrones' Lena Headey.
- 6/5/13 /
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Edelstein: Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing Is the Smoothest Shakespeare Comedy on Film
Nathan Fillion, Amy Acker, and a bevy of Whedon regulars star in this California-set update.
- 5/31/13 /
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Edelstein on The East: An Ecoterrorism Thriller, With Strains of Passion and Weirdness
This indie thriller, about an ecoterrorist outfit, stars Brit Marling and Alexander Skarsgard.
- 5/31/13 /
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Movie Review: Comedy and Naturalism Clash in The Kings of Summer
This coming-of-age tale features great adult actors and middling kid ones.
- 5/31/13 /
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Edelstein on After Earth: Will and Jaden Take the Shyamalan Out of This Shyamalan Movie
Will Smith and his son Jaden star in this M. Night Shyamalan sci-fi blockbuster.
- 5/31/13 /
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Movie Review: In Now You See Me, the Closer You Look, the Less There Is
This wannabe magical mystery adventure stars Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg.
- 5/24/13 /
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Edelstein: Alex Gibney’s We Steal Secrets Looks at WikiLeaks and the Tragedy of the Modern Hacker
Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney focuses his lens on Julian Assange.
- 5/24/13 /
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Movie Review: Epic Is a Derivative Slog Through the Forest
Leaf-people and people-people in this animated tale of forest adventure.
- 5/24/13 /
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Edelstein: Fast & Furious 6 Proves That There Is Emotion in Motion
The theme of this sequel is family. The word itself comes up approximately 682 times.
- 5/23/13 /
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Movie Review: The Wolfpack Returns, Minus the Laughs, in The Hangover III
The laughs are few and far between in this final sequel to the comedy hit.
- 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.
- 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.