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    Donnie Yen takes the lead as Ip Man. Photo courtesy of Well Go USA
    From the outside, my barbershop on First Hill...
    By Robert Horton • January 19, 2016 7:11 pm

    From the outside, my barbershop on First Hill looks like every Main Street America tonsorial parlor, complete with the striped…

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    Donnie Yen takes the lead as Ip Man. Photo courtesy of Well Go USA
    From the outside, my barbershop on First Hill...
    By Robert Horton • January 18, 2016 12:16 pm

    From the outside, my barbershop on First Hill looks like every Main Street America tonsorial parlor, complete with the striped…

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    Michael Stone (voiced by David Thewlis) in a solitary moment.
    “Scrambled is my favorite eggs style. What about...
    By Robert Horton • January 11, 2016 10:14 pm

    “Scrambled is my favorite eggs style. What about yours?” The speaker is Lisa, a lonely, sincere, somewhat vapid woman sharing…

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    The Revenant is a huge whopping spectacle, the likes of which have
    The Revenant is a huge whopping spectacle, the...
    By Robert Horton • January 6, 2016 10:21 am

    The Revenant is a huge whopping spectacle, the likes of which have rarely been seen since Cecil B. DeMille ordered…

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    Cabin fever? From left, Russell, Leigh, and Dern.Andrew Cooper/SMPSP/Weinstein Co.
    What’s he done this time? As a filmmaker...
    By Robert Horton • December 18, 2015 12:27 pm

    What’s he done this time? As a filmmaker who creates experiences that aren’t remotely like anything else out there, Quentin…

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    Sara (Cardellini) has two husbands: Brad (Ferrell) and Dusty (Wahlberg, center). (Photo courtesy Paramount Pictures)
    Will Ferrell hasn’t exhausted the comedy of emasculation...
    By Robert Horton • December 18, 2015 12:27 pm

    Will Ferrell hasn’t exhausted the comedy of emasculation just yet—his argyle-sweater-vest-clad persona still has some comic juice. Still, it was…

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    Love outside the lab: Mbatha-Raw and Smith. (Photo courtesy Melinda Sue Gordon/Columbia Pictures)
    Concussion joins the small collection of investigative films...
    By Robert Horton • December 18, 2015 12:27 pm

    Concussion joins the small collection of investigative films arriving at the end of 2015, with Spotlight and Truth and the…

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    Blanchett (left) and Mara as lovers on the run. (Photo courtesy Wilson Webb/Weinstein Co.)
    The Price of Salt is a 1952 novel...
    By Robert Horton • December 18, 2015 12:26 pm

    The Price of Salt is a 1952 novel by Patricia Highsmith (using the pseudonym Claire Morgan) about a lesbian romance….

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    The films of Quentin Dupieux would’ve been a smash in the late
    The films of Quentin Dupieux would’ve been a...
    By Robert Horton • May 15, 2015 3:21 pm

    The films of Quentin Dupieux would’ve been a smash in the late ’60s and early ’70s, crammed as they are…

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    Deneuve's Renee watches her business go downhill.Cohen Media
    As evidenced by the success of radio’s Serial...
    By Robert Horton • May 15, 2015 3:21 pm

    As evidenced by the success of radio’s Serial and TV’s The Jinx (like anybody consumes things on radio or TV…

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    Out of the middle class and into the Olds: Shaw and Dastmalchian. Courtesty of Oscilloscope Laboratories
    He looks like a junkie, she doesn’t; but...
    By Robert Horton • May 10, 2015 7:38 pm

    He looks like a junkie, she doesn’t; but maybe that’s the point. Animals seeks to humanize the struggle of two…

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    Fatih Akin (Head-On, Soul Kitchen) is on the short list of the
    Fatih Akin (Head-On, Soul Kitchen) is on the...
    By Robert Horton • May 7, 2015 2:59 pm

    Fatih Akin (Head-On, Soul Kitchen) is on the short list of the most intriguing 21st-century directors, and his latest effort,…

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    As ever, Wiig keeps us off balance.Suzanne Hanover/Alchemy
    Beyond the valley of black comedy is a...
    By Robert Horton • May 4, 2015 10:04 pm

    Beyond the valley of black comedy is a place where laughter and horror mingle freely. Here roams the original British…

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    Ulfsak as the patient Ivo.
    Small in scale and antiwar in subject, Tangerines...
    By Robert Horton • May 4, 2015 10:03 pm

    Small in scale and antiwar in subject, Tangerines is the kind of story that almost always gets called a fable….

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    Yes, Apfel is as awesome as she dresses.
    When Albert Maysles died on March 5, it...
    By Robert Horton • May 4, 2015 10:03 pm

    When Albert Maysles died on March 5, it was the end of a significant phase of the documentary film. His…

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    Johansson is back as Black Widow.Jay Maidment/Marvel
    The characters in current superhero movies must’ve grown...
    By Robert Horton • April 27, 2015 4:21 pm

    The characters in current superhero movies must’ve grown up reading comic books. In Marvel’s run of blockbusters, Iron Man and…

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    Grief turns to something else: Kurylenko and Crowe.Mark Rogers/Warner Bros.
    Joshua Connor (Russell Crowe) is a dowser, a...
    By Robert Horton • April 20, 2015 12:42 pm

    Joshua Connor (Russell Crowe) is a dowser, a man who can find water in the Australian desert—a talent he will…

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    What does she see in him? Schnoeink and Friedel.Film Movement
    In November 1811, in accordance with their suicide...
    By Robert Horton • April 20, 2015 12:42 pm

    In November 1811, in accordance with their suicide pact, the great German Romantic writer Heinrich von Kleist shot and killed…

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    Citizen's Committee members John and Bonnie Raines in 1969.Courtesy Raines family/Cargo Films
    Even if you have an allergic reaction to...
    By Robert Horton • April 14, 2015 12:27 pm

    Even if you have an allergic reaction to dramatic re-enactments in documentary films—and I confess I get itchy during them—1971…

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    Proud Kolbeinn (Sigurdsson) and his stallion.Music Box Films
    Icelandic humor. Could it become a thing? It...
    By Robert Horton • April 7, 2015 1:55 pm

    Icelandic humor. Could it become a thing? It seems possible in the wake of Of Horses of Men, a supremely…

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    Plaza acquits herself like a Hartley regular.
    It arrives with something less than the heated...
    By Robert Horton • April 7, 2015 1:54 pm

    It arrives with something less than the heated expectations of, say, the Avengers sequel, but Ned Rifle is nevertheless the…

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    Elkabetz as plaintiff.Music Box Films
    This movie never leaves the courtroom or its...
    By Robert Horton • April 7, 2015 1:54 pm

    This movie never leaves the courtroom or its antechamber, but that’s not the only reason things are unbearably claustrophobic. The…

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    Depardieu's VIP (center) amid an orgy.Nicole Rivelli/Sundance Selects
    In the early minutes of Welcome to New...
    By Robert Horton • March 31, 2015 11:22 am

    In the early minutes of Welcome to New York, Gerard Depardieu’s performance as a VIP called Devereaux appears designed to…

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