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The House That Jack Built Review: Architects Do It Better

Deirdre Crimmins — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:00:33 +0000

You can, and probably should, accuse director Lars von Trier of being many things, but boring is never one of them. He’s inflammatory and intentionally offensive, and his films follow suit. Through the various genre filters he has flirted with over the years, he’s given us deeply personal and deeply disturbing reflections on the human...

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Cannes Journal: ‘The House That Jack Built’

Jason Gorber — Tue, 22 May 2018 16:00:02 +0000

Lars von Trier has been banned from Cannes since 2011 when he joked about his own fascist tendencies. Invited back (but not in competition), the Danish master of the melancholic returns with a dark descent into damnation. ‘The House That Jack Built’ is a serial killer film like no other, tracing the title character (played...

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‘The Party’ Review: Cringe in Black and White

Philip Brown — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 17:00:59 +0000

Long underrated (even if her pithy, experimental, and openly political movies are hardly conceived as crowd-pleasers), writer/director Sally Potter deserves a resurgence. ‘The Party’ may not be her best work, but it shows what she’s capable of even with meager resources. Potter’s work in films like ‘Orlando‘, ‘Yes’, and ‘The Tango Lesson’ established her as...

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Now Playing: ‘Unknown’ is Yellowed Paperback Fun

Drew Taylor — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:00:21 +0000

It’s interesting, the career path that Liam Neeson has taken. He’s always kind of flown under the radar, even after starring in Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning ‘Schindler’s List’ and flirting with big budget stardom in almost-hits like Sam Raimi’s ‘Darkman‘ or Jan De Bont’s remake of ‘The Haunting’. Then he moved on to the “experienced mentor”...

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