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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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    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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    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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    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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