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When treated with the lofty ambitions Nolan sets down here, though rare, the comic book film can become high cinematic art. Batman Begins is the launching pad for that movement, although no other filmmaker-outside of Nolan himself-has outdone what he achieved here...
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If Batman Begins is the launching pad for serious comic book-to-film adaptations, The Dark Knight is the definitive destination, a place where the hero broods on his perch and the villains are either described without a modicum of sympathy, or they were once heroes who in time become twisted into killers...
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The result is rather like a trip to Costco, an experience packaged in bulk without the finesse or charm or your local mom'n'pop general store; except, at this Costco, the shelves are empty yet the lines are long, and the staff never stops shouting obscenities to gain our attention. Eventually, we realize this big, dumb, artificial store has nothing interesting to offer and we go home to shop on Etsy instead.
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Meirelles and Morgan leave far too many of their characters twisting in the wind by the end credits. We're reminded of smaller characters because Meirelles uses split-screens to show us how they're floating through life at this moment...
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The Dark Knight Rises contains all the symbolism and narrative complexity we've come to expect from Nolan's Batman films, but with the added enhancement of a massive-scale production that is executed with a brilliant hand.
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Bob le flambeur becomes an exercise in myth-making, reinforcing and refiltering the Hollywood cinema the director so adored through his own creative drives, into the self-conscious construction of a cherished screen legend...
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Woody Allen's cinematic travelogue through Europe continues to Italy in To Rome With Love, an episodic and blithe comedy strewn together from bits and pieces of smaller ideas and arranged in an ungraceful if diverting whole. An anthology of silly and surreal stories assembled in a loose structure on par with Every Thing You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask, the film meanders about its series of vignettes with no sense of temporal logic between them. As days pass in one story, hours pass in another, but Allen cuts between them like they're all happening at the same time. How fitting then that the original title was Nero Fiddled, since Allen himself merely tinkers here with a few novelty ideas and allows nothing but the gorgeous scenery, shot on location in Rome, to link them together...
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With a somewhat noirish opening, a thrilling center, and a post-modern ending (the latter of which could potentially make-or-break the experience for moviegoers), Stone's revitalization of his primal side is an uneven if admirable effort...
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Bittersweet and unexpected, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World somehow manages to be funny, sad, tragic, and romantic. In its depiction of The End, it's quite brave and oddly beautiful. The film takes hold of you all of a sudden and won't let go. Before you know it, your eyes begin to tear up and a lump develops in your throat...
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The title must be meant ironically: no one in this film is innocent. The characters are placed in an environment of repression, submission, and most of all, a behavioral decorum that limits what a person can say, do, or even feel. Marriage is a contract more vitally linking two important families than two lovers. Love is irrational and impractical in this world. There is no personal life outside of what affects the family. If an act of social indiscretion transpires, all sects of the respective family become involved. After all, family names survive, the individuals therein do not...
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