Notebook Reviews: Giorgos Lanthimos' "Alps"
Daniel KasmanGiorgos Lanthimos’ followup to Dogtooth suffers from the same problems as his breakthrough.
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Notebook Reviews: Steven Soderbergh's "Magic Mike"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyA “major minor” movie about male strippers, or the Recession, or both.
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Notebook Reviews: Benh Zeitlin's "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyThis faux-naif debut feature is more advertising than cinema.
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Notebook Reviews: Woody Allen's "To Rome with Love"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyWoody Allen’s new film is relaxed, easy-to-digest, light entertainment—middle-brow fluff done right.
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Notebook Reviews: Amy Seimetz's "Sun Don't Shine"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyAn occluded little world of scuzz, sweat, and suspicion.
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Cannes 2012. Kôji Wakamatsu's "11/25 The Day Mishima Chose His Fate"
Daniel KasmanKôji Wakamatsu continues his look at Japanese history with a micro-biopic on the passion of Yukio Mishima.
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Cannes 2012. David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis"
Daniel KasmanIn adapting Don DeLillo’s novel, Cronenberg continues A Dangerous Method’s talky abstraction, here seeing the end of the world as theory.
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Notebook Reviews: John Hyams' "Dragon Eyes"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyCurrently playing on VOD, a new film from the director of the underrated Universal Solder: Regeneration.
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Cannes 2012. Films by Takashi Miike, Leos Carax, Jaime Rosales
Daniel KasmanThree standous: a school musical brawl film by Miike, an episodic, shapeshifting nightcrawl by Carax, and fragments of grief from Rosales.
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Cannes 2012. Alain Resnais' "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet"
Daniel KasmanAlain Resnais returns to the play between theater, cinema and life in his new film.
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Cannes 2012. Abbas Kiarostami's "Like Someone in Love"
Daniel KasmanAbbas Kiarostami shoots a movie in Japan and the result is the strangest, most mysterious film playing in Cannes.
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Notebook Reviews: Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyAnderson’s deftly orchestrated but deliberately uncomplicated new movie.
