The High Falls Film Festival today announced the line-up of films for its 2013 edition, which will run April 18-21 at various local theaters. Although it will be the 11th installment of the festival overall, it is the first since 2011 and will feature a return to the festival’s original name and a renewed focus […]
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FALL GUIDE ’11: Movie preview
By now you know how Hollywood works, saving its finest films for year’s end, with a couple of non-prestige (read: fun) offerings counterprogrammed against all that Oscar bait. You’ve probably also noticed that the studios tend to cluster their most promising submissions around a holiday. This means that you might find yourself stuck with some […]
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SUMMER GUIDE ’10: Movies
So what usually happens is I cobble together a list of films to write about for a summer movie preview, and with any luck a unifying theme will present itself. This time? Not so much. Truthfully, the following rundown is more notable for what’s not included; save for a couple of big-budget studio flicks, it’s […]
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How’d you get so lucky?
When people stumble upon my not-so-secret identity as a movie critic, they often start chucking questions at me. Most believe that getting paid to give your unsolicited and subjective opinion sounds like a dream, and I do spend a great deal of time pinching myself. But when the clock strikes midnight and I’m trying to […]
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Only the movies you want to see
As I was thinking about how to structure this piece on the films of autumn, I became hung up on the notion of film criticism versus movie reviewing. Film criticism is an art that seems to require a thorough steeping in film history, astute reasoning, an extremely keen eye, and the ability to concisely convey […]
