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The body count rises with bloody, relentless precision in No One Lives, an old-fashioned slasher flick masquerading as a kidnapping thriller. When a ...
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As an artist, Eli Roth always seeks to elevate the human spirit. Whether he's working as writer-director (Hostel), as producer (The Last Exorcism), o...
View ArticleWatch Erased with the Sound Off and You'll Still Know What's Going On
Mix a dollop of The Bourne Identity, a dash (or two) of Taken, and a pinch of the spy classic Three Days of the Condor (1975), stir it all together, ...
View ArticleCameos Transform Free Samples Into Something Special
Vibrant cameo performances by two of our most engaging young actors—Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Ritter—along with one film legend—Tip...
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Apparently, heaven's clerks do indeed keep track of who goes to church on Sunday, because when the Rapture comes, Lindsey (Anna Kendrick) and her boyf...
View ArticleLogic and Originality Are Absent From Horror Flick Absence
There are many things absent from this found-footage horror movie, including suspense, logic, and originality. The footage in question is being shot ...
View ArticleStill Mine Offers A Glimpse of a Surprisingly Sensual Long-Term Marriage
All that Canadian farmer Craig Morrison (James Cromwell), age 87, wants to do is build a little house, on his own land, without having to ask anyone'...
View ArticleWasteland Is a Typical Heist Drama Bound Together by Charming Banter (When It...
There are twists aplenty but few surprises in this warm-hearted but routine heist drama from first-time writer-director Rowan Athale. After serving t...
View ArticlePredictability and Heavy-handed Storytelling in Terraferma
Save them, or let them drown? This is the question facing a fisherman on the tiny Italian island of Linosa, whose waters have become an arrival point...
View ArticleThe Gorgeous Ain't Them Bodies Saints Goes Deep in the Heart of Texans
In David Lowery's sublime new film, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Bob Muldoon (Casey Affleck), who's serving 25 to life for armed robbery and wounding a ...
View ArticleThis Is Martin Bonner Achieves Authenticity Through a Low-Key Lens
Martin Bonner (Paul Eenhoorn), pushing 60, lives a simple life, but that doesn't mean he's simple-minded, or incapable of surprising people with his ...
View ArticleWampler's Ascent to Become a Legend
In the fall of 2010, 42-year-old Stephen Wampler, who has cerebral palsy, slid into a specially designed chair, and then, using an ingenious rope-and...
View ArticleGetaway: At Least It's Not in 3D
When Justin Bieber's favorite actress, Selena Gomez, survives a bad B-movie with more dignity than her costar, Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke, the end tim...
View ArticleDead Before Dawn 3D Is Yet Another Zombie Flick, But It Manages to Amuse
Like the very creatures they celebrate, zombie comedies keep on coming. In the overlong but amusing Dead Before Dawn, a klutzy college student named ...
View ArticleAn Absurdly Compelling Tale of Culinary Ladder Climbing in Haute Cuisine
Over time, French president François Mitterrand grew weary of the fancy foods being dished up by his chefs, and so it came to pass that a litt...
View ArticleWith a Himalayan Peak as its Killer, The Summit Is a Documentary with the...
Coming down is the hard part, most mountain climbers will tell you, a maxim proved to tragic effect in August 2008, when 11 of 25 experienced adventu...
View ArticlePulling Strings Is Too Sweet-Natured to Dislike
This bilingual romantic comedy is overly long and has a paper-thin plot, but it's too sweet-natured to dislike. Alex (Jaime Camil), a Mexico City mar...
View ArticleA Uneven Mix of Comedy and Horror Leaves Hellbenders Feeling More Unsettling...
A clever twist on the exorcism genre fails to pan out in this ambitious but uneven horror-comedy. When an exorcism goes awry, the Catholic Church call...
View ArticleBridging the Gap Follows Three of the Vienna Boys Choir as They Travel the World
In this oddly intense nonfiction film, Austrian writer-director Curt Faudon appears simply to be documenting the travels of one troupe within the 100...
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