The Hangover Part II (Phillips, 2011)
The Hangover Part II is either a profound and mournful examination of human nature and the problem of living with sin in a world where redemption is not possible or it is a failed attempt at comedy.
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Moulin Rouge — 10 Years Later (Luhrmann, 2001)
Normally, when I hate a movie, I can, at the very least, see what drew a more positive response from those who liked, even loved it. Then there is Moulin Rouge.
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Everything Must Go (Rush, 2010)
I'm not here complaining about the too pretty alcoholic, like Elizabeth Shue in Leaving Las Vegas, who somehow manages to make you forget how really unpleasant is the experience of trying to remember that someone is made in the image of God after you've once woken up to the smell of their dried vomit.
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Thor (Branagh, 2011)
True, I can't recall two consecutive minutes of the film where I was conscious of enjoying myself, but that doesn't mean I hated it. Really.
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Miss Gulag (Yatskova, 2007)
Miss Gulag tries hard to balance the story of a beauty pageant in a Siberian prison for females with a broader examination of life in post-Soviet society.
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Emergenetics and Made in Dagenham — 1More Podcast Episode 12
Tune in for a fascinating discussion about the differences between being assertive and being expressive, what makes a "red" thinker successful at taking up a "blue" cause, and how director Nigel Cole answered criticism that the union's victory paved the way for industrial jobs leaving England entirely.
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The Grove: A Fight to Remember (Wilson, 2011)
The Grove: A Fight to Remember begins with, pretty much ends with, and is interspersed with tourists in Golden Gate Park looking for the Japanese tea garden.
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An Encounter With Simone Weil (Haslett, 2011)
"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."
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Hot Coffee (Saladoff, 2011)
Susan Saladoff's Hot Coffee is the documentary that Inside Job tried so hard to be, informative, educational about a complex subject without being reductive, partisan without being propaganda, and, ultimately, persuasive.