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Spirited lark 'Angels Share' keeps you rooting to end

Spirited lark 'Angels Share' keeps you rooting to end

You'll have to wait until it ends to see whether crime pays in Ken Loach's spirited caper "The Angels' Share." But it's a testament to the vet…

May 16, 2013 12:00 am Comments

'Wrong' doesn't feel right

'Wrong' doesn't feel right

Quentin Dupieux's "Rubber" remains one of the most ridiculously inventive movies of recent years, an alternate universe horror film about a ti…

May 16, 2013 12:00 am Comments

'Erased' never sketches in decent villain for Eckhart

Just once, it'd be nice if the couple fleeing from a trigger-happy hit man through, say, a crowded hospital, would yell out - "Run for your li…

May 16, 2013 12:00 am Comments

Provocative 'Simon Killer' taps darkness

Provocative 'Simon Killer' taps darkness

"Simon Killer" is an amoral tale, and a cautionary one, that reminded me my mama was right when she said "Never talk to strangers" and "Looks …

May 09, 2013 12:00 am Comments

The student, teacher become chillingly obsessed with family

The student, teacher become chillingly obsessed with family

The teacher is a veteran of the French school system, not burnt out but resigned to the mediocrity of each new crop of high school sophomores.…

May 09, 2013 12:00 am Comments

Tech is tool of alienation in well-acted 'Disconnect'

Tech is tool of alienation in well-acted 'Disconnect'

We unplug our phone from the charger, pop in our ear buds and go out to seize the day. We text compulsively, post on Facebook obsessively, and…

May 02, 2013 12:00 am Comments

'The Big Wedding': Unhappily ever after

"Marriage is like a phone call late at night," Robert De Niro says, in dulcet voice-over mode, at the outset of "The Big Wedding." "First come…

April 28, 2013 12:00 am Comments

'Arthur Newman': First things Firth

Colin Firth has the uncanny ability to play both king and commoner with the same compassion, dignity and reverence. Whether it was his lovesic…

April 25, 2013 12:00 am Comments

Actine fine in "The Company You Keep"; ages don't add up

Actine fine in "The Company You Keep"; ages don't add up

Robert Redford delivers one last lecture on '60s idealism and passes another baton to Shia LaBeouf in "The Company You Keep," an engrossing th…

April 25, 2013 12:00 am Comments

Southern melodrama 'Mud' revels in authentic milieu

Southern melodrama 'Mud' revels in authentic milieu

The cinema's leading purveyor of Southern Gothic, Jeff Nichols, hands Matthew McConaughey his latest tour de force turn in "Mud," a down and d…

April 25, 2013 12:00 am Related Comments

Imagery emphasized over plot in 'Wonder'

Neil (Ben Affleck) and Marina (Olga Kurylenko) fall in love in France, commit to staying together and settle into life in Oklahoma with her yo…

April 25, 2013 12:00 am Comments

'The Sapphires' treads lightly on plot but sparkles with fun

'The Sapphires' treads lightly on plot but sparkles with fun

Among the many ways that Australia's history mirrors our own is that both nations sent native peoples to reservations and sent soldiers to fig…

April 18, 2013 12:00 am Comments

'Fierce Green Fire' a film barometer of 50 years of ecological gains, challenges

'Fierce Green Fire' a film barometer of 50 years of ecological gains, challenges

A kind of crash course in 50-plus years of environmentalism, the documentary "A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet," adapted fr…

April 18, 2013 12:00 am Comments

'Gatekeepers' forces Shin Bet chiefs to face Israel's divisions

'Gatekeepers' forces Shin Bet chiefs to face Israel's divisions

The Oscar-nominated documentary "The Gatekeepers" is built around interviews with the last six chiefs of the Israeli intelligence service, Shi…

March 28, 2013 12:00 am Comments

Half-baked mind games mar movie version of 'The Host'

Half-baked mind games mar movie version of 'The Host'

Hollywood has always shown a fondness for adapting books - whether they be classic, contemporary or comic - into movies. Not only does this pr…

March 28, 2013 12:00 am Comments

Film aims for jugular of warming deniers

Seven years after "An Inconvenient Truth," what has changed in the world's efforts to come to grips with global warming? The scientific consen…

March 28, 2013 12:00 am Comments

Divided theme hurts 'Admission'

Divided theme hurts 'Admission'

Tina Fey makes funny TV shows, funny movies and funny books.

March 21, 2013 12:00 am Comments

'War Witch' captivates in unexpected ways

'War Witch' captivates in unexpected ways

LOS ANGELES - The powerful things we expect from "War Witch" are as advertised, but what we don't expect is even better.

March 21, 2013 12:00 am Comments

'Olympus Has Fallen' never quite gets up; not much more than a shoot-'em-up

For those who thought the last Bruce Willis movie was a little light on the casualty list, "Olympus Has Fallen" arrives toting the biggest bod…

March 21, 2013 12:00 am Related Comments

'Stoker' a fractured fairy tale

'Stoker' a fractured fairy tale

There's a suggestion of vampirism in the title of "Stoker." The stylish chiller shares its name with Dracula's author, but its fixation on blo…

March 21, 2013 12:00 am Comments

'Dahmer Files' doesn't exploit, adds new perspective on killer

'Dahmer Files' doesn't exploit, adds new perspective on killer

Mesmerizing and haunting, "The Jeffrey Dahmer Files" is an inside-out serial killer movie, lacking in gore or cheap psychology and made in par…

March 21, 2013 12:00 am Comments

'Koch' shows ex-mayor's great love was New York

What an entertaining rapscallion Ed Koch was during his run as mayor of New York in the late '70s and '80s. Popular, polarizing, loved, hated,…

March 14, 2013 12:00 am Comments

'Dead Man Down' is a lifeless, inane film

'Dead Man Down' is a lifeless, inane film

Suspending disbelief is a part of watching most any action film, where bullets fly like birds and mayhem explodes as easily as a shaken soda can.

March 10, 2013 12:00 am Comments

Raimi's 'Oz' gets story, effects right, but the witches ...

In the movies' version of March Madness, Sam Raimi turns out to be a much better Tim Burton than Bryan Singer. Unlike "Giant Slayer" Singer, S…

March 07, 2013 12:00 am Comments

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