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Top Five of 2010: A Few Bright Spots in a Year of 3D and Lazy Writing
Restrepo: On the Edge of Survival
Predators: Killers From a Different World in a Film From a Different Era
Toy Story 3: Out of the Toy Box for One Last Adventure
Cyris: Two Men Compete for the Same Woman; But One Really Shouldn’t
Knight & Day: He’s A Spy; She’s Good Looking: Do We Need a Script?
The Killer Inside Me: The Familiar Face of a Murderer
Winter’s Bone: The Noir World in the Murky Woods
Debra Granik Interview: Outside Director Brings a Vision to a World of Insiders
Splice: The Danger of Science, Monsters, and Freud
Exit Through the Gift Shop: Turning Trash into Cinema
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A Pretty Normal Family, Whatever That Means
Movie Review: The Kids Are All Right
The Kids Are All Right has a catch that is its main draw: the patriarch of this American family is Annette Benning; the matriarch, Julianne Moore.
Movie Review: Inception
Inception is bravura filmmaking as well as a messy concoction of muddled themes and character.
Movie Review: Valhalla Rising
Valhalla Rising is a pretentious bore of the story of the nature of man, as told through a very bloody and gruesome Viking film.
On the Surface, It’s A Wonderful Life
Movie Review: Life During Wartime
Life During Wartime brings back many of the characters from Happiness, now played by different actors, and questions a whole new set of premises about suburbia.
Movie Review: Dogtooth
When confronted with Dogtooth’s shocking scenes of sex and violence, it simply becomes an act of endurance.
Movie Review: Salt
It may just be because everything else this summer has been filled with utter disappointment, but Salt is the kind of escapist action film worth craving.
Movie Review: Lebanon
Lebanon, despite its formal gimmick, feels oddly and disappointedly familiar.
NYPD Gets the Ferrell-ian Treatment
Movie Review: The Other Guys
The Other Guys, which stars Will Ferrell, is the most plotted of director Adam McKay’s films to date.
This Week on The Buza Beat: A look at the very trippy trailer for Gasper Noe’s Enter the Void, and a discussion on that credit sequence for The Other Guys.
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Girl of His Dreams Becomes His Adventure
Movie Review: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
In Scott Pilgrim, Michael Cera must battle seven evil exes for the girl of his dreams.
Familiar Territory? These Boys Live in Their Fantasy Worlds
Interview: Michael Cera and Edgar Wright
(Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World)
Scott Pilgrim is not just another run-of-the-mill-Mr.-Cera-is-awkward film, its also a out-of-this-world fantasy action film that pulls its references from 70s punk rock, old school Nintendo games, and Hong Kong action flicks.