In the opening scenes of the pleasant but totally unremarkable “Learning to Drive,” Wendy, a fragile Manhattanite book critic played by Patricia Clarkson, learns that her husband has been seeing someone else and he plans to leave her (something he’s apparently tried several times before, though it appears that this time it’s going to stick). […]
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Film Review: “Self/less”
From Jennifer Lopez’s twisted, eye-popping journey inside the mind of a serial killer in “The Cell,” to a lavish love letter to storytelling itself with “The Fall,” the films of Tarsem Singh have demonstrated his admirable commitment to crafting some beautifully bonkers eye candy. Even “Immortals,” Singh’s dip into sword-and-sandal epics, managed to distinguish itself […]
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Film Review: “The Boxtrolls”
Laika, the film studio behind modern stop-motion animated classics “Coraline” and “ParaNorman,” brings yet another endlessly imaginative tale to the big screen. Based loosely on the book “Here Be Monsters” by Alan Snow, “The Boxtrolls” is a whimsically demented fable centering on the titular creatures: adorably ugly, toothy, grey-skinned beasts who dwell beneath the Dickensian […]
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“Iron Man 3”
Summer movie season has officially arrived with the release of “Iron Man 3,” the third (and-a-half, including last summer’s “The Avengers”) chapter in the story of billionaire industrialist and inventor, Tony Stark. The film continues Marvel Studios’ winning formula of picking interesting filmmakers for their mega-budget superhero blockbusters over more commercially viable (i.e. boring) options. […]
