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This Must Be The Place
This Must Be the Place is a love letter from an affectionate misanthrope, delighting in the ebullient self-delusion of America, the innocent overblown self-satisfaction, the unexamined eccentricity
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
One star for the Worst Scenes, five stars for the True Scenes.
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Carnage
The new comedy from Roman Polanski is a hilarious and biting scale model masterpiece.
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Oslo, August 31st
It is art, sometimes difficult art, that can make us re-examine the world we live in, make us feel deeper than we have before and move us in profound ways.
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Asshole
A review isn’t really necessary for Asshole, a new film (as I believe it’s be labelled) by Kaushik Mukherjee. A description will probably do the job.
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Lynne Ramsey and Ezra Miller
The pair talk exclusively about We Need To Talk About Kevin.
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360
360 is a film made by a humanist with a nearly unparalleled and courageous talent.
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A Prophet
He’s been sentenced to six years, though we never find out what for. Everything he is, which isn’t much, and everything he’ll become, which is formidable, comes from the prison, and starts at this moment.
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The Blind Side
I was in awe of this movie; stunned. Stunned that it had made it to the big screen, let alone the Oscars. The Blind Side is just not good filmmaking.
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Shutter Island
Shutter Island is a faithful, detailed movie not set in 1954, but of 1954. Scorsese is fully flexing his cinephilic chops.
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ABOUT Dr. Garth Twa
Garth Twa is the award-winning writer and director of 'Pieces of Dolores' and 'Birds Die'. He has also written episodes of 'The Wright Verdicts', a programme from the makers of 24 and CSI, and is the author of the acclaimed book 'Durable Beauty'.