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Author Archives: Amy Robinson
SOUND OF MY VOICE [Batmanglij/2011] Lacks courage to be a straight-up character piece about cultists; confuses ambiguity with red herrings.
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THE CABIN IN THE WOODS [Goddard/2011] Lightly amusing sampler of Whedon TV tropes suffocates any potential for buy-in with blanket of meta.
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SHAME [McQueen/2011] Beautifully assembled, but sex addict angle too tame to be more than provocative frill on usual troubled-siblings tale.
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DETENTION [Kahn/2011] Overworked pastiche overly enamored with own cleverness and too reliant on humiliating unappealing Last Girl Standing.
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THE RAID: REDEMPTION [Evans/2011] Lean genre exercise delivers B-movie thrills with well-staged action set pieces, horror/suspense accents.
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GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING [Belz/2011] Richter is compelling, the process of making art engaging; practical life of an artist lacks detail.
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Well, Modern-Ish
One of Robert Altman’s earliest industrial films, the 1951 “Modern Football,” was recently rediscovered by archivist Gary Huggins. Enjoy the crudity. Via AV Club.
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