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Green Zone
A U.S. Army warrant officer is recruited by the CIA to help in the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. His search leads him to some uncomf...
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Remember Me
A young couple united through similar traumatic experiences begin to find a measure of happiness in each other's arms. But the pressures of life and f...
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Extraordinary Measures
A father refuses to accept that the disease afflicting his two youngest children is incurable. With the help of an ingenious but difficult research sc...
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The Box
A couple receive a box from a stranger one day. They are told that if they press the button on the box, two things will happen: they will receive a mi...
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The Red Shoes
Back during the revolution, among the crowds that stormed the palace was a young boy who found himself in front of the First Lady's vast collection of...
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The Book of Eli
Decades after a major war has left civilization in tatters, a lone traveler walks the broken landscape, facing down roving gangs of bandits, protectin...
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When in Rome
A young girl constantly unlucky in love goes on a trip to Rome and takes some coins from a fountain where people wish for love and romance. All of a s...
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Romeo at Juliet
Two young lovers, both having sprung from toxic, abusive families, find their only hope in the freedom of a burgeoning love. But the past is never far...
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How to Train Your Dragon
A small island populated by vikings is constantly terrorized by dragons. A young boy with no skill for battle accidentally finds himself taking care o...
A Bid for Largeness
posted on Monday, March 15, 2010 in Movie Reviews
Here is the big secret of modern love stories: they aren’t very epic. Modern relationships tend not to function on big moments, the splashy set pieces of romantic comedies that usually involve some giant physical act of love. When couples have fights or break up, their getting back together isn’t predicated on one of them hiring a marching band or making a speech before the other gets on a plane. People get into and out of relationships without the world necessarily ending. In real life, romance is only part of the larger equation, and things like family and self-actualization can and often do take precedence over relationships. The strength of modern love stories stems from the intimacy they afford, the unquantifiable but familiar chemistry that grows between two people as they simply get woven into a single fabric. Remember Me appears to be aware of this, for the most part, building a love story between two people without making it seem like it’s the most important thing in the world.
Editorial Policy
posted on Monday, March 15, 2010 in Movie Reviews
If anything, this year’s Academy Award best picture winner The Hurt Locker proved that movies about the war in Iraq didn’t have to be about politics. The war over whose politics are right, played out on TV screens by the punditocracy, is generally less important than the war on the ground, where lives are being lost everyday, and all sorts of grand tragedies and ironies are constantly being played out. And when The Green Zone stays on the ground, it really works. The strange world that’s been built in the wake of the invasion is brought to life, it excesses and deficiencies made clear and palpable, and all the more immediate.
A Serious Film
posted on Friday, March 12, 2010 in Movie Reviews
The titular characters of Ben and Sam are film students, and we occasionally join them in one of their film classes. There, they watch films and have long-winded discussions about some vague idea of cinematic truth. One of the films that they watch is Fidel. Their teacher introduces it by pretty much holding it up as an example of responsible cinema, bringing attention to an issue that’s generally ignore. “I don’t want to catch anyone sleeping,” she warns the class, before telling them that she’s not really worried about that. “It’s not a sleeper.”
