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“Spotlight” has become
one of the more acclaimed films of the year thus far, and it’s not hard to see why.
In general, the movies have a pretty spotty record for portraying mental illness; for every nuanced take like “Two Days, One Night,” there’s a "Silver Linings Playbook," treating its characters’ emotional disorders as an obstacle that can be overcome if they’re just plucky enough. Falling somewhere in the middle is writer-director Maya Forbes’ semi-autobiographical drama, […]
The picture’s odd title, “Foxcatcher,” in effect explains itself in an introductory montage of black and white still photographs mixed in with home movies, showing images of horses, riders, dogs, and inevitably, rich people in fancy riding clothes — something right out of one of those British PBS television series. The title refers to a […]
Bank-robbing magicians is the basic idea behind “Now You See Me,” and it’s such a ridiculous and yet ingenious premise for a movie that it’s a wonder it hasn’t been done before now. The marriage of magic to the heist film genre is a natural fit; both require a fair amount of misdirection, sleight-of-hand, and […]
