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December 2013

December 28, 2013

2013 Top Ten

The past twelve months have been filled with great times at the movies for me....

December 16, 2013

Enough Said (Holofcener, 2013)

I happened to see Enough Said the day after screening Inside Llewyn Davis. Both films...

December 10, 2013

Love Actually (Curtis, 2003) — 10 Years Later

Alas, no. No to all of it. No to it being a holiday film, a...

December 08, 2013

Blackfish (Cowperthwaite, 2013)

While I never quite felt like I was watching a snuff film, I could also...

December 05, 2013

Approaching Midnight (Khaleghi, 2013)

This movie isn't that bad. The acting is, but the plot isn't.

November 2013

November 30, 2013

The Bible

"This program is an adaptation of Bible Stories that changed our world" suggests a rebuttal...

November 27, 2013

Frozen (Buck and Lee, 2013)

Evaluating Disney films in a DVD era has become a complicated calculus.

November 25, 2013

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lawrence, 2013)

I prefer the movie to the book.

November 23, 2013

The Armstrong Lie (Gibney, 2013)

A person--doesn’t have to be a friend of yours necessarily, just someone you know or...

November 21, 2013

It’s Better to Jump (Angelone, 2013)

It's Better to Jump is one of those films that sounds better in a summary...

November 19, 2013

Child of God (Franco, 2013)

An outsider, of “carnival folk” in a rustic, small town in the backwoods of Tennessee,...

November 17, 2013

Church Hoppers

It's hard to combine reality television with church.

November 17, 2013

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Weir, 2003) — 10 Years Later

That "B" grade looks stingy in retrospect, especially given some of the films I had...

November 06, 2013

Aftermath (Pasikowski, 2012)

It's not surprising, then, to find the film is about antisemitism. What was surprising to...

November 03, 2013

All She Can (Wendel, 2011)

College—it’s Luz Garcia’s dream—it’s her only way of escaping the big trouble of her small...

November 01, 2013

Ender’s Game (Hood, 2013)

I've spent the three days between viewing and reviewing Ender's Game listlessly trying to convince...

October 2013

October 25, 2013

Standing Up (Caruso, 2013)

Standing Up begins and ends with a reference to God. In between, Howie and Grace...

October 24, 2013

Shepard & Dark (Wurmfeld, 2012)

It's hard to know which element of Shepard & Dark is the most refreshingly quaint:...

October 17, 2013

Escape Plan (Håfström, 2013)

Every good escape plan needs three things: 1) Guards that shoot like stormtroopers. 2) A...

October 13, 2013

Cinematic States (Higgins, 2013)

There are film critics and then there are movie guys. You know the former. They...

October 12, 2013

Ian Delaney Interview

The theory was--or is--that creating borders, or writing ourselves into a corner, facilitates creativity.

October 10, 2013

Informant (Meltzer, 2012)

If you’re looking for answers as to who Brandon Darby really is, or what the...

October 03, 2013

Jewtopia (Fogel, 2012)

With a name like Jewtopia, I thought the movie would be mainly about a Jewish...

October 02, 2013

Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde (Mitchell, 2013)

Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde is a new documentary film about (as...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

Don Jon (Gordon-Levitt, 2013)

Kenneth R. Morefield reviews Don Jon at 1More Film Blog.

September 23, 2013

The Muslims are Coming! (Farsad & Obeidallah)

When asked if their project assumes that Americans (or Christians) are more intolerant or Islamophbic...

September 20, 2013

Gravity (Cuarón, 2013)

Any good political pollster can tell you that the answer is influenced by the way...

September 11, 2013

Under the Skin (Glazer, 2013)

The director himself opined that he thought the second half of the film was about...

September 06, 2013

Tio Papi (Rojas, 2013)

Despite the one misgiving about racial stereotyping, I thought Tio Papi was a good family...

September 06, 2013

Riddick (Towhy, David)

After the first seven minutes, I was worried, but then I realized the first seven...

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