All She Can (Wendel, 2011)
College—it’s Luz Garcia’s dream—it’s her only way of escaping the big trouble of her small town.
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Shepard & Dark (Wurmfeld, 2012)
It’s hard to know which element of Shepard & Dark is the most refreshingly quaint: the male friendship, the commitment to letter writing, or the quiet quality of its emotional… Continue reading "Shepard & Dark (Wurmfeld, 2012)"
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Informant (Meltzer, 2012)
If you’re looking for answers as to who Brandon Darby really is, or what the motivations behind his turning in two young men suspected of planning to bomb the Republican National Convention really were, then this movie will not be a profitable use of time.
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Jewtopia (Fogel, 2012)
With a name like Jewtopia, I thought the movie would be mainly about a Jewish family. But it isn’t.
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Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (Vittoria, 2012)
"Do you feel safer?"
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Vito (Schwarz, 2011)
If you are a straight male of a certain age, Vito Russo’s book, The Celluloid Closet, may well have been your first introduction to … not gay people, exactly, but… Continue reading "Vito (Schwarz, 2011)"
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A Royal Affair (Arcel, 2012)
The themes of surrendering to a self-torturing, illicit passion is rote, but the theme of struggling with a temptation to seize power for the greater good...well, okay, it's pretty rote, too.
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Red Hook Summer (Lee, 2012)
All of which might explained why Spike Lee’s latest film, Red Hook Summer, manages to seem fresh and provocative even as it’s undermined by some of the most uneven filmmaking I've seen all year.
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Les Misérables (Hooper, 2012)
Watching Les Misérables is a bit like listening to a young pop star do a cover of a Beatles classic. She can have all the talent in the world, but it still sounds somehow wrong.
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The Sessions (Lewin, 2012)
The same thing that makes The Sessions better than expected is what makes it naggingly incomplete: it takes sex seriously.