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Spoiler-Free Review of Her

I love my iPad. What if it could love me back? That’s essentially the question at the heart of Her, a meditation on our affection for personal technology and social media … how that technology might evolve … and the unexpected...

January 13, 2014
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Spoiler-Free Review of August: Osage County

Rumors that this movie was almost released with the title Watch Meryl Streep Eat Her Own Babies are patently untrue. That said, everything else about this darkly funny drama *is* true in the most important sense: it feels true. The characters are...

January 13, 2014
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Review: Inside Llewyn Davis

At their very best (Fargo and Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?), the Coen brothers are hard to beat. Unfortunately, Inside Llewyn Davis misses the mark, providing a few memorable scenes but ultimately collapsing under its own weight. The scruffy title...

January 5, 2014
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Review of The Armstrong Lie

A cold, grey, rainy Saturday afternoon is a perfect time to see a great documentary. (Oh, who am I kidding? If Atlanta’s weather had been sunny skies and seventy degrees, we would have been in the theater today.) So we barreled down Cheshire...

December 15, 2013
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(Spoiler-Free) Review of The Desolation of Smaug

I am, perhaps, the only geek among my geeky high school friends who didn’t read the Tolkien books. I never read The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I never read The Hobbit. Perhaps this was because the person who introduced me to them insisted I...

December 14, 2013
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Jupiter Ascending

The trailer gives me enough plot points to know everything about this movie before it’s released. (I can even hear the pitch meeting: “It’s Terminator meets The Man in the Iron Mask!”) That’s pretty good source...

December 11, 2013
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Seeing is Believing
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Seeing is Believing

I’m a little obsessed with FXGuide.com, a website devoted to special effects in film. My favorite features are the occasional “You won’t believe these scenes have special effects in them” posts. We expect science fiction and...

January 31, 2013
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