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Movie Review: Daybreakers
There is a goddamn amazing movie hidden inside Daybreakers. To preface my review, I'll give you the final word: you should see it. Despite the filler and the clichés, it has some powerful forces at...
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Movie Review: The Shinjuku Incident
I'd be surprised if anyone really knows of The Shinjuku Incident, a new picture produced by and starring Jackie Chan. I only found out about it by noticing a poster linked on a few obscure cinema...
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Movie Review: The Wolfman (2010)
I managed, over the past few months, to get myself pretty excited for The Wolfman. I liked the trailers and the cast and the posters, and I'm generally starved for intense, atmospheric movies. When the...
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Movie Review: Shutter Island
Martin Scorsese's latest experiment with genre film is a dark, gasping production full of art and vision. He makes it clear that he is a genre outsider in all the right ways, eschewing tired and...
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Movie Review: Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Tim Burton's new 3-D carnival, Alice in Wonderland, is a wild amusement that would probably be given more credit if Burton hadn't already squeezed so much out of his own schtick. It's adventurous,...
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Movie Review: Kick-Ass
There are a lot of ways to think about Matthew Vaughn’s film Kick-Ass. It’s a complicated construction, because its intentions are not simple and self-evident. Part of its ostensible importance is in...
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Movie Review: Iron Man 2
Iron Man 2 has to follow a tough act… Jon Favreau’s original film was the popcorn equivalent of The Dark Knight, a perfectly-constructed big-budget action movie that had the pacing and hooks of a comic...
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Movie Review: Splice
Splice is an anxious, claustrophobic monster movie inheriting a great deal from Cronenberg’s The Fly – a chronicle of the life cycle of an abomination, humanized enough that we start to forget how to...
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The High Cost of Ignorance: Education and Information Flow
The debate on educational policy in this country is rough and divisive. In fact, I believe it’s the most divisive debate happening right now that doesn’t depend on vapid sensationalism (that is to say,...
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Movie Review: X-Men: First Class
After working through it and working it over, I’ve come to the conclusion that X-Men: First Class is a bad movie. This pains me more than I should like to admit, because there’s some deep groundwork...
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