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TIFF Journal: Marriage Story

Jason Gorber — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 14:00:19 +0000

In 1979, Robert Benton directed Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep in a film about the disintegration of a marriage and the ramifications it had on their young kid. Kramer vs. Kramer was groundbreaking stuff, became an enormous financial success, and took home Oscars for Best Picture, Direction, Actor, Supporting Actress, and Screenplay. If Netflix has...

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Now Streaming: The Other Side of the Wind

Deirdre Crimmins — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 18:00:10 +0000

For decades, no one thought that Orson Welles’ final film, The Other Side of the Wind, would be finished, let alone shown publicly. Welles shot the movie between 1970 and 1976, but never completed the thing before he died in 1985. Now, thanks to Netflix, Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach, we’re finally also able to...

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‘De Palma’ Review: Musings from a Moviemaker

Philip Brown — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 19:00:57 +0000

It’s strange to imagine that a film dedicated to the great Brian De Palma would be primarily a static shot of a talking head. Love or loathe the movies that the Hitchcock successor spat out over the last 48 years, they could never be described as “talky.” In fact, the filmmaker even mentions his hatred...

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‘Mistress America’ Review: Frances Ugh!

Philip Brown — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 16:00:21 +0000

It’s been only a few months since Noah Baumbach’s last movie ‘While We’re Young’ hit theater screens, but the master of cynicism is already back with another tale of narcissists on the path to a meltdown. Reteaming with his muse and co-writer Greta Gerwig, Baumbach has served up a somewhat slighter comedy that nonetheless has...

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‘She’s Funny That Way’ Review: Not That Funny

Philip Brown — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:00:39 +0000

Of all the great American directors of the 1970s, few have suffered a fall from grace as dramatically as Peter Bogdanovich. His latest effort, ‘She’s Funny That Way’, doesn’t do much to suggest that the filmmaker has much left in the tank. To be fair, it has also clearly been reworked endlessly in editing. It’s...

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‘While We’re Young’ Review: Young People Suck

Philip Brown — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 15:00:19 +0000

Noah Baumbach has been a master of caustic comedy since his debut ‘Kicking and Screaming’. (No, not the one with Will Ferrell. The other one.) He’s a man for whom laughter always comes with a bitter sting of truth and deep discomfort. That’s why it was so surprising when he made the sincere and even...

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TIFF Journal: ‘While We’re Young’

Philip Brown — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:00:42 +0000

Middle-aged Noah Baumbach just had his greatest success with ‘Frances Ha‘, which dealt with the plight of the twenty-something with warmth, compassion and good humor. Now he’s made a move that feels like artistic venting after that experience. ‘While We’re Young’ is about how worthless all those twenty-something kids are, and it’s pretty damn priceless....

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Weekend Movies: Not a ‘Trek’ Fan? Ha!

Luke Hickman — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:00:06 +0000

Captain’s log Five dot One-Seven dot One-Three. Get off your asses and head to the closest large-format screen immediately! Leading up to the blockbuster season, ‘Iron Man 3’ was probably my most anticipated movie, but if you read my spoilery anti-‘Iron Man’ post from a couple weeks ago, then you know that I wasn’t satisfied...

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