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Articles by Brian Miller
Quick, can you name the short-film Oscar winners from this past March?
Quick, can you name the short-film Oscar winners...
By Brian Miller • October 28, 2014 12:02 pm

Quick, can you name the short-film Oscar winners from this past March? Me neither. Instead of belatedly parading the nominees…

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The lonely Landis. Sam Cullman/Oscilloscope Laboratories
Somewhat contrary to expectation, this is not a...
By Brian Miller • October 28, 2014 12:00 pm

Somewhat contrary to expectation, this is not a documentary about a master art forger. Exposed as a fraud in 2011…

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The winner! Scheuerer’s Peacock. At right, Pan’s High Autumn.
The audience votes with its feet. At least...
By Brian Miller • October 24, 2014 10:59 am

The audience votes with its feet. At least at the museum, where you’re not supposed to applaud or cheer, people…

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Yumiko Glover
Yumiko Glover left Japan as young college graduate...
By Brian Miller • October 24, 2014 10:56 am

Yumiko Glover left Japan as young college graduate and never went back. After working in business and as a simultaneous…

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Woodley and Meloni, unhappily abandoned. Magnolia Pictures
Faster than you can say Young Adult novel,...
By Brian Miller • October 21, 2014 2:58 pm

Faster than you can say Young Adult novel, director Gregg Araki dives into a doomy ’80s wallow, the soundtrack throbbing…

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Kaguya and Sutemaru, back in the village.
A staple of Japanese folklore for 10 centuries,...
By Brian Miller • October 21, 2014 2:58 pm

A staple of Japanese folklore for 10 centuries, Princess Kaguya is now an anime eight years in the making from…

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Olivia Costello plays the adorable daughter. Under the Milky Way
Some movies are an argument against making movies;...
By Brian Miller • October 21, 2014 2:57 pm

Some movies are an argument against making movies; some marriages are an argument against having kids; and this addled New…

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Thompson's Sam stirs up trouble. Ashley Nguyen
Justin Simien’s smart new college satire reminds you...
By Brian Miller • October 21, 2014 2:56 pm

Justin Simien’s smart new college satire reminds you how lazy most American comedies are. In a very different Hollywood ecosystem,…

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ClEau as the ferocious Esther. Sundance/IFC
They don’t make movies like this anymore, a...
By Brian Miller • October 21, 2014 2:55 pm

They don’t make movies like this anymore, a fact that director Mathieu Amalric immediately emphasizes with The Blue Room’s boxy…

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What are the kids doing? The parents (Sandler and DeWitt) have no idea.
If you didn’t get the message in last...
By Brian Miller • October 14, 2014 12:54 pm

If you didn’t get the message in last year’s Disconnect, director Jason Reitman is here to remind you again that…

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Cheng as the lonely, grieving mother. Strand Releasing
Marriage equality may be a new thing, but...
By Brian Miller • October 14, 2014 12:54 pm

Marriage equality may be a new thing, but there’s always been equality in grief. The death of a lover is…

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Collier (Pitt) takes a break from combat. Giles Keyte/Columbia
Seven decades after World War II, and countless...
By Brian Miller • October 14, 2014 12:53 pm

Seven decades after World War II, and countless movies about it, I don’t know if audiences still have a taste…

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Abdi (Muktar) nervously handles his AK-47.
You’ve seen this story before, maybe twice: Tom...
By Brian Miller • October 14, 2014 12:53 pm

You’ve seen this story before, maybe twice: Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips and the Danish A Hijacking. Cutter Hodierne’s tale…

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Why are we pursuing a 10-year-story? Webb's editor (Platt) wants to know. Chuck Zlotnick/Focus Features
At the movies at least, the stock of...
By Brian Miller • October 7, 2014 12:00 pm

At the movies at least, the stock of righteous, muckraking journalists peaked with All the President’s Men. Newsmen (almost always…

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Yousef today. Music Box Films
Down in the lower paragraphs of news stories...
By Brian Miller • October 7, 2014 11:59 am

Down in the lower paragraphs of news stories about the Middle East, whenever this Hamas faction or that Hezbollah brigade…

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Banderas as battered insurance agent. Yana Blajeva/Millennium Ent.
We’re in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a walled city...
By Brian Miller • October 7, 2014 11:59 am

We’re in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a walled city surrounded first by slums (whose denizens are shot on sight) and then…

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Photo by Brian Miller
This new sculptural installation by local artists Etta...
By Brian Miller • October 1, 2014 1:14 pm

This new sculptural installation by local artists Etta Lilienthal and Ben Zamora presents a tangle of old-school fluorescent bulbs—not those…

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pumpthemovie.com
This new advocacy doc is essentially the bastard...
By Brian Miller • September 30, 2014 2:35 pm

This new advocacy doc is essentially the bastard child of Who Killed the Electric Car? and Fuel (also directed by…

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A Vietnamese pilot saves his family (with a baby tossed to the sailors!) during the airlift.lastdaysinvietnam.com
How, short of total victory, do you end...
By Brian Miller • September 30, 2014 2:34 pm

How, short of total victory, do you end a war? The question has been haunting our military and political leaders…

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Pike as the girl in question.
Likable characters are a curse in Hollywood. Studios...
By Brian Miller • September 30, 2014 2:33 pm

Likable characters are a curse in Hollywood. Studios want someone relatable, someone personable, someone who looks friendly on the cover…

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