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Welcome to New York, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week’s notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Darren Aronofsky’s Noah tells the story by the book
Darren Aronofsky’s Noah is immersed in Judaic literature.
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Iranian westerns, French madwomen, Laotian rocketeers, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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The special effect of screen actors playing characters older than themselves
Noting a few fine performances by younger actors of older people in light of teenager Adèle Exarchopoulos’s performance in Blue Is the Warmest Color
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Superman returns (again) in Man of Steel
With Man of Steel, the screenwriters of the “Dark Knight” trilogy take a crack at the original superhero.
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Spouses at odds, a ghostly guardian, a trip to the hospital, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue.
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Quentin Tarantino at College of DuPage
A new course surveys the director’s career as his latest feature, Django Unchained, nears release
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This Week’s Movie Action
Summer in Genoa Rodrigo Garcia, who wrote and directed the excellent Nine Lives (2005), scales down to three lives (and change) for his latest feature, Mother and Child, the subject of this week’s long review. We also have a Critic’s Choice for Michael Winterbottom’s Summer in Genoa, starring Colin Firth, Catherine Keener, and Hope Davis.
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3:10 to Yuma
Period westerns are so unfashionable and costly that they usually require a top-drawer script to get off the ground–and this one, adapted from an Elmore Leonard story and its 1957 movie version, travels with an arrow’s clean arc. Christian Bale is a one-legged Civil War veteran who can’t keep his ranch and young family solvent; […]
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Working-Class Hero
The main virtue of Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man is that it’s not really about boxing.