Written Film Reviews
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Movie Review: “Beginners”
The year is 2011. This is what good movies looked liked. Beginners is the driest of comedies. It is a film that deals with relationships and death in a 21st century way. It is a…
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Movie Review: “Sarah’s Key”
By Michael McNeely Are You Asking the Right Questions? Language: French (with English subtitles), English There are a lot of things we don’t like to talk about. As an English/History teacher, and personally, as an…
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Movie Review: “The Tree of Life”
By Brent Holmes A perfect film. Terrence Mallick’s The Tree of Life is perhaps one of the most ambitious films made in quite a while. The Palme D’Or winner is nothing short of vast and…
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Movie Review: “50/50”
By Josh Litman So cancer is…funny? 50/50, directed by Jonathan Levine, stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 Days of Summer, Inception) as Adam Lerner, a 27-year-old man who develops a rare form of cancer. This probably sounds…
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Movie Review: “The Three Musketeers”
By Brent Holmes The Three Musketeers in 3D Like A Christmas Carol, Sherlock Holmes, or any Jane Austen novel, The Three Musketeers is one of those stories that somehow has justified getting several adaptations per…
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David Cronenberg gets Dynamic…Psycho Dynamic [Review: ‘A Dangerous Method’]
By Christopher Beaulieu David Cronenberg gets dynamic… Psycho dynamic. The trailer for A Dangerous Method makes too much sense. The moment I heard the words “Professor Freud” followed by Vigo Mortenson holding a phallic cigar in true…
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Movie Review: “Melancholia”
Review by Brent Holmes Controversial director Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia is a visual masterpiece. Watching it on off a laptop from a downloaded bit torrent is a galactic sin. Much like his previous work, Antichrist, Trier’s artistry is…
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Movie Review: “The Ides of March” [TIFF Exclusive]
Good, but not great. That’s how I would sum up George Clooney’s new political pic. And when I say “George Clooney’s,” I mean it every which way; the guy wrote, directed and acted in it.…
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Movie Review: “The PhD Movie”
The PhD Movie, based off of the online comic strip “Piled Deeper and Higher” by Jorge Cham is a strange film to review. The film is showing at select Universities; Western being one of the…
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Movie Review: “Contagion”
These days, films about the end of the world are a dime a dozen. What elevates Steven Soderbergh’s pandemic thriller Contagion above the rest is the plausibility of its doomsday scenario. The film’s commitment to…