Good news for Matt Damon fans: They will hate Matt Damon in The Talented Mr. Ripley. My theory rests on the junior high school girls sitting behind me, who squirmed and chatted from prelude to coda. I harbored dark hopes that the popcorn they replenished every half hour would lodge under their retai
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Playing God, Bring Out the Dead: Bringing Out the Dead
In the beginning, Scorsese said "Let there be light," but he preferred the darkness. He created the heavens and the earth but, like Milton, found hell far more interesting. And so it came to pass that in one brilliant film after another over a 30-year artistic career, Martin Scorsese has s
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This Mortal Coil: Michael Haneke’s ‘Amour’ chronicles one couple’s infirmity and demise
The fleetingness of life itself, and its slipperiness, anchor Michael Haneke’s film ‘Amour.’
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Hot Dog Diplomacy: Bill Murray channels FDR in ‘Hyde Park on Hudson’
Bill Murray as Franklin Delano Roosevelt? Not an obvious choice but after watching him play the 32nd president in “Hyde Park on Hudson” it makes perfect sense. Over the last two decades, Murray has been venturing beyond clownish goofball parts to tackle more subtle and mature, if still m