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A new classic is born in pulsating 'Hateful Eight'

Wednesday, 20 January 2016, 15:51 Last update: about 9 years ago

"The Hateful Eight" is not for the faint at heart. What Quentin Tarantino movie is? But while cinema's favorite cinephile is up to some of his old tricks in his eighth feature, this over three hour...

Forgettable horror 'The Forest' wastes star Dormer

Tuesday, 19 January 2016, 15:50 Last update: about 9 years ago

How many great movies could be written across the enigmatic, profound face of Charlotte Rampling? Hundreds? Thousands? At any rate, Andrew Haigh's "45 Years" is one of them. In it, Rampling stars...

Moore 'invades' Europe to teach us all some lessons

Saturday, 16 January 2016, 15:46 Last update: about 9 years ago

Of course Michael Moore exaggerates. Of course he engages in cheerful, unabashed cherry-picking. Of course he sees black and white where most of us see shades of gray. That doesn't necessarily...

The extremes Leonardo DiCaprio went to for 'The Revenant'

Friday, 15 January 2016, 15:45 Last update: about 9 years ago

Alejandro G. Inarritu knew Leonardo DiCaprio would go to the ends of the earth to make the 19th century survival epic "The Revenant" exactly as the famously meticulous director wanted. For...

Savagery and virtuosity mingle in 'The Revenant'

Thursday, 14 January 2016, 15:44 Last update: about 9 years ago

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's frontier survival saga "The Revenant," filmed in the Canadian Rockies, seeks to join the ranks of Werner Herzog's "Fitzcarraldo" and Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse...

Jennifer Lawrence carries ambitious, imperfect 'Joy'

Wednesday, 13 January 2016, 15:43 Last update: about 9 years ago

The Oscar winner is in every frame of David O. Russell's new film, shining even among a star-studded cast with a performance that brings continuity to the writer-director's ambitious but flawed story...

In 'The Big Short,' a bet against America pays off

Tuesday, 12 January 2016, 15:40 Last update: about 9 years ago

In Adam McKay's comic and clear-eyed adaption of Michael Lewis' "The Big Short," a handful of finance speculators __ outsiders and oddballs __ predict a downturn in the housing market only to realize,...

A sensitive Will Smith anchors worthy 'Concussion'

Saturday, 9 January 2016, 16:25 Last update: about 9 years ago

One of the most impactful scenes in "Concussion" is a brief and wordless one: Just a few seconds, really, of a high school football team going through its drills. We don't know who these young,...

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