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Articles by Chris Packham
Streisand and Rogen don't hit many bumps on their drive.
The Guilt Trip: Barbra Streisand Is Game for...
By Chris Packham • December 18, 2012 12:00 am

Once comic actors reach a particular career stage, they often choose one of two paths: a) They stop being funny…

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Florizoone in the flush of first love.
North Seas Texas: Belgian Boys Fall in Love
By Chris Packham • December 4, 2012 12:00 am

Recently, popular films about gay characters have started moving beyond the overarching plot about society’s acceptance of sexual identity and…

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Duris as a new man.
The Big Picture: A Lawyer’s Unlawful Identity Theft
By Chris Packham • November 27, 2012 12:00 am

“You’re as free as the wind,” says Paul Exben (Romain Duris) to the son of a legal client to whom…

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The titular artist.
Bel Borba Aqui: Folk Art in Brazil
By Chris Packham • November 20, 2012 12:00 am

The demolished buildings of Salvador, Brazil, are substrates for public art to one native son. Bel Borba, a mixed-media artist…

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An enchanted scene in the woods.
Tales of the Night: Neat French Animation for...
By Chris Packham • November 13, 2012 12:00 am

Sometimes when you appropriate the storytelling modes of other cultures or time periods, the result is an enormous, semi-informed embarrassment…

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Day-Lewis as our 16th president.
Lincoln: Daniel Day-Lewis Is Amazing
By Chris Packham • November 6, 2012 12:00 am

Daniel Day Lewis Is Amazing

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Taking off the warpaint: McDormand and Penn.
This Must Be the Place: Sean Penn Hunts...
By Chris Packham • November 6, 2012 12:00 am

Google “Danzig shopping for cat supplies,” and you’ll find links to phone-cam shots of former Misfits singer Glenn Danzig crossing…

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A boy and his dog.
Frankenweenie: Tim Burton Successfully Revives His Old Short
By Chris Packham • October 2, 2012 12:00 am

Ever since Mars Attacks!, Tim Burton has been mostly in the adaptation business, rendering dark and becurlicued Sleepy Hollows and…

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The Oranges' two clans.
The Oranges: Hugh Laurie as Stifled Suburban Dad
By Chris Packham • October 2, 2012 12:00 am

Yeah, all right already, we get it about suburbia: It’s a topography of middle-aged despair hidden under a sunny beige…

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Farahani as the haunting lost love.
Chicken With Plums: Obsessive Love, From Marjane Satrapi’s...
By Chris Packham • October 2, 2012 12:00 am

Narrated by Death himself, embodied by the archangel Azraël, Chicken With Plums is the second adaptation of comic book artist…

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From left, BFFs Caplan, Dunst, and Fisher.
Bachelorette: Kirsten Dunst and Her Cohort Make Naughty
By Chris Packham • September 4, 2012 12:00 am

In Leslye Headland’s Bachelorette, the bride’s wedding dress is in terrible danger, and you know it the second that Regan…

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The artist's implacable stare.
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present: Staring Back...
By Chris Packham • September 4, 2012 12:00 am

For three months in 2010, Serbian-born performance artist Marina Abramovic sat in a chair in a gallery at New York’s…

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Garfield shows his sticky talents.
The Amazing Spider-Man: A Comic-Book Movie That Deserves...
By Chris Packham • July 2, 2012 12:00 am

Spider-Man’s story is some primal-ass teenage wish fulfillment: nerds beating jocks, astonishing old people, romancing hot girls, dangling criminals from…

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