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Articles by Nick Pinkerton
Stone and Gosling take a breather from the bullets.
Originally slated to open in September 2012, Gangster...
By Nick Pinkerton • January 8, 2013 12:00 am

Originally slated to open in September 2012, Gangster Squad was delayed when the movie-theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, suddenly made…

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McDormand and Damon ponder what lies beneath.
Promised Land: Matt Damon Versus Fracking
By Nick Pinkerton • December 21, 2012 12:00 am

Salesmen are typically depicted onscreen as the quintessential American phonies. That one set of phonies are being dramatically indicted by…

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Knightley as Tolstoy's doomed heroine.
Anna Karenina: Keira Knightley’s Mad, Theatrical Passion
By Nick Pinkerton • November 20, 2012 12:00 am

Tolstoy’s family epic has been smartly contoured to fit just more than two hours of screen time by Sir Tom…

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Washington's pilot is steered toward rehab by fellow junkie Kelly Reilly.
Flight: Denzel Washington’s Drunken Heroics
By Nick Pinkerton • October 30, 2012 12:00 am

The yammering about “Oscar gold” and Denzel Washington’s potential three-peat will soon reach a deafening pitch, but such noise can…

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Oh, Tom Hanks, what have they done to your hair?
Cloud Atlas: WTF, Wachowskis?
By Nick Pinkerton • October 23, 2012 12:00 am

The trailer for this gargantuan adaptation of David Mitchell’s 2004 novel, directed by two Wachowski siblings and Tom Tykwer, looks…

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Rivers' hermit (Williams) in his natural state.
Two Years at Sea: Ben Rivers’ Cinema of...
By Nick Pinkerton • October 23, 2012 12:00 am

It is difficult for residents of these sprawling United States to regard anything within the snug British Isles as truly…

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A preacher casts out Satan.
Hellbound?: Theologians (and Others) Consider the Fiery Afterlife
By Nick Pinkerton • October 16, 2012 12:00 am

Pope John Paul II made hell briefly unfashionable, but the administration of Benedict XVI has retrieved Gehenna from metaphorical downgrade…

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Adams (pictured with Eastwood) also appears in The Master this week.
Trouble With the Curve: Clint Eastwood Talks to...
By Nick Pinkerton • September 18, 2012 12:00 am

What a strange thing for an actor to have been rehearsing one’s decline and death for so very long! Eastwood…

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Jovovich (left) does her leather catsuit thing.
Game Boy
By Nick Pinkerton • September 11, 2012 12:00 am

The bigger and better mousetraps of Paul W.S. Anderson

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Rock gets to show his domestic side.
2 Days in New York: Julie Delpy Pushes...
By Nick Pinkerton • September 4, 2012 12:00 am

Julie Delpy’s sequel to her 2007 2 Days in Paris calls back many of the same characters and more than…

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Geyrhalter frames the modern workplace.
Abendland: A Deadpan European Rebuttal to Samsara
By Nick Pinkerton • August 28, 2012 12:00 am

A documentary composed of vignettes of Europe by night, shot as though through the eyes of some inquisitive, unobtrusive, silent…

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LaBeouf's moonshiner courts a local beauty (Mia Wasikowska).
Lawless: Moonshine and Machine Guns
By Nick Pinkerton • August 28, 2012 12:00 am

Screening the history of bootlegging in urban America led to the invention of a genre—the gangster film—but moviegoers have seen…

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Law as cuckold in 360.
360: Rachel Weisz and Jude Law Spin in...
By Nick Pinkerton • August 14, 2012 12:00 am

Is there something intrinsic to these wide-net, “We’re all connected” ensemble movies that makes their authors think they need to…

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From Magic Mike to Killer Joe, McConaughey is having a very good year.
Killer Joe: Matthew McConaughey Will Kill You Now
By Nick Pinkerton • August 14, 2012 12:00 am

At one point in Killer Joe, based on Tracy Letts’ play, a hideously funny tabloid noir set on the outskirts…

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De Niro (with Joely Richardson) as the psychic hustler.
Red Lights: Robert De Niro Fails to Thrill
By Nick Pinkerton • August 7, 2012 12:00 am

Like a great number of films dealing with supernatural and extraterrestrial phenomena, Red Lights is a thriller in which suspense…

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Confounded parents Farrow and Walken.
Dark Horse: Fear and Loathing in New Jersey
By Nick Pinkerton • July 31, 2012 12:00 am

People always end up the way they started out. No one ever changes, one character says in Todd Solondz’s significantly…

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Labed as one of the young surrogates.
Alps: Death and Surrogacy in Greece
By Nick Pinkerton • July 24, 2012 12:00 am

In a gymnasium, a clandestine four-person group meets to discuss its name. One member suggests “Alps,” explaining: “The mountains of…

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JW (Kinnaman) seeks to transcend his class.
Easy Money: Crime and Punishment in Sweden
By Nick Pinkerton • July 24, 2012 12:00 am

As the general run of action films blithely defies the laws of gravity and consequence, what a pleasure to find…

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The disputed painting.
Portrait of Wally: Another Saga of Stolen WWII...
By Nick Pinkerton • July 17, 2012 12:00 am

Aside from the incalculable human cost, World War II left in its wake property-rights issues whose repercussions are felt to…

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Zima and Haas can't connect.
Crazy Eyes: Lukas Haas as Trust-Fund Bukowski
By Nick Pinkerton • July 17, 2012 12:00 am

We first encounter the subject of Crazy Eyes‘ character study mixing his drinks while damning the glittering void of L.A….

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Lodge as the unraveling heroine.
Lovely Molly: Spooky House, Not Enough Horror
By Nick Pinkerton • July 17, 2012 12:00 am

The “name” connected to Lovely Molly is that of director Eduardo Sánchez, one of the perpetrators of 1999’s Blair Witch…

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As usual, Morgan Freeman provides sage advice to Bale.
The Dark Knight Rises: Too Dark, Too Much,...
By Nick Pinkerton • July 17, 2012 12:00 am

Though a shallow repository of ideas, considered as a work of sheer sensation, Dark Knight Rises has something to recommend….

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Markina amid the post-Soviet grimness.
Elena: Life Is Still Grim in the Old...
By Nick Pinkerton • July 10, 2012 12:00 am

Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Elena is a tale of two apartments: a spacious chrome, glass, and marble luxury flat that might be…

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