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Closer lies its way to the truth
Director Mike Nichols directs this emotionally devastating film based on Patrick Marber’s play. Set in London, Dan (Jude Law) begins dating Alice Ayres (Natalie Portman), but ends up meeting a...
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Blue Valentine paints a different color of love
Writer/Director Derek Cianfrance’s paints a different color of love with his hard-hitting story about a young couple falling in and out of it. Blue Valentine moves back and forth between Cindy...
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Match Point serves up a masterful thriller
Woody Allen is one of the most prolific directors of the modern era, which means some of his projects can be hit or miss, but his movie, Match Point serves up a masterful film that demonstrates Allen...
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The Sessions is a love poem for living life
The Sessions was one of the best film of 2012. I am still smarting from Helen Hunt not winning best supporting actress honors and John Hawkes brave performance being ignored all together....
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Punch-Drunk Love is an awkward romantic comedy
Paul Thomas Anderson has established himself as one of the most innovative directors of his generation. His film is a departure from his previous projects because it focuses on one character as...
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(500) Days of Summer
Writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber create an original romantic comedy that is not a love story, but a story about love. The familiar tale of boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, and...
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I’m Here (short film) downloads a powerful code
Writer and Director Spike Jonze’s thirty minute short, I’m Here is one of coolest love stories I have seen in a long time because it can be interpreted in couple different ways. Based on Shel...
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Silver Linings Playbook scores
After a brief stint in a mental institution, Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) moves back in with his parents (Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver) to reconcile with his wife. Pat meets Tiffany (Jennifer...
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Chasing Mavericks rides a positive wave
Rarely does a Hollywood “Based on a True Story” movie get it right, but the film about surf legends Jay Moriarity (Jonny Weston) and Frosty Hesson (Gerard Butler) rides the perfect wave into people’s...
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Nuit Blanche (short film) breaks through
Director Arev Manoukian captures a moment in time that all hopeless romantics can appreciate. His black and white homage to finding love on the streets in Paris at night is a beautifully put together...
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Before Midnight
Before Midnight is the third installment in the unexpected but still wonderfully touching Before Trilogy. Just like in the first two films, writer/director Richard Linklater brings us back into the...
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Birdemic: Shock and Awful
Nothing can prepare you for this shockingly awful film. Birdemic is easily one of the worst films ever made, which means it has been exalted to a cult-like status with American audiences that prefer...
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall is remembered
I have been a fan of Jason Segel and Judd Apatow since Freaks and Geeks. I was excited to see him take the lead role in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Segel wrote himself the perfect part as the jilted...
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Magnetic (short film) not strong enough to hold me
There is an old saying, “opposites attract,” but not in the short film, Magnetic. Writer/Director . F. C. Rabbath draws you into its story with a young boy offering a small magnet as a gift to a young...
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The Spectacular Now shook me
Eight months into 2013 and The Spectacular Now is the best film I have seen so far. It features a young cast that brings Tim Tharpe’s novel to life. The film follows Sutter Keely (Miles Teller), a...
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Upside Down stays in the middle
I loved the premise of the sci-fi film, Upside Down from writer/director Juan Diego Solanas, but the film gets stuck in a middle ground because it does not have an identifiable antagonist for the hero...
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I am glad I spent time with HER
Spike Jonze’s latest film ‘Her’, set in the not-too-distant future, tells the story of writer Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), who finds himself falling in love with Samantha, an advanced operating...
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