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Articles by Robert Horton
Cotillard as desperate factory worker.Christine Plenus/Sundance Selects
There is only one situation in Two Days,...
By Robert Horton • January 27, 2015 11:27 am

There is only one situation in Two Days, One Night—no subplots, no vast canvas. But filmmaking brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc…

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Hathaway's Franny on a musical quest.Cindigm/Film Arcade
People who don’t like musicals always fall back...
By Robert Horton • January 20, 2015 1:04 pm

People who don’t like musicals always fall back on the Realism Argument, contending that in real life we don’t start…

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Chastain and Isaac as stylish fuel-oil merchants.
In the wintry air of A Most Violent...
By Robert Horton • January 20, 2015 1:04 pm

In the wintry air of A Most Violent Year, a would-be business magnate named Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) sports a…

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Shirin (Akhavan) on the rebound.Parkville Pictures/Gravitas Ventures
Because Desiree Akhavan has been cast in a...
By Robert Horton • January 12, 2015 6:00 pm

Because Desiree Akhavan has been cast in a recurring role on the new season of Girls, her visibility and pop-culture…

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Kyle (Cooper) takes aim.
There was a time when American Sniper would’ve...
By Robert Horton • January 12, 2015 5:59 pm

There was a time when American Sniper would’ve been an ideal Oliver Stone project—a story of the battlefield and the…

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Oyelowo and Ejogo enact the politics of marriage.Atsushi Nishijima/Paramount
The most suspenseful scene in Ava DuVernay’s Selma...
By Robert Horton • January 6, 2015 9:15 am

The most suspenseful scene in Ava DuVernay’s Selma does not depict the dramatic 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, nor…

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TV veterans Brody and Jacobs.Magnolia Pictures
Whatever else it achieves in offering observations about...
By Robert Horton • January 6, 2015 9:15 am

Whatever else it achieves in offering observations about friendship and love in the modern age, Life Partners is definitive on…

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Vand as nocturnal heroine.
It sounds like something that fell from a...
By Robert Horton • January 6, 2015 9:15 am

It sounds like something that fell from a branch of the Tarantino tree: Surely a movie promoting itself as an…

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Aydin (Bilginer) as idle landlord.Adopt Films
The rustic hotel at the heart of Winter...
By Robert Horton • December 29, 2014 3:35 pm

The rustic hotel at the heart of Winter Sleep is a strikingly unfamiliar place: Located somewhere in Turkey’s Anatolian countryside,…

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Rocks in My Pockets: Depression is like lifting a whale?
The first minutes of Rocks in My Pockets...
By Robert Horton • December 29, 2014 3:34 pm

The first minutes of Rocks in My Pockets unfold in standard-issue animation of the European variety: cutesy (yet grown-up) drawings,…

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Fiennes as the dapper Gustave in Grand Budapest Hotel.Fox Searchlight
Writing a year-end movie wrap-up is a useful...
By Robert Horton • December 22, 2014 1:44 pm

Writing a year-end movie wrap-up is a useful way of acknowledging quality, but it’s also a handy method for capturing…

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The debtor (Wahlberg) faces down his lender (Williams).Claire Folger/Paramount
Movie stars come from the unlikeliest places. Take...
By Robert Horton • December 16, 2014 12:05 pm

Movie stars come from the unlikeliest places. Take the case of one Mark Wahlberg, for example. In youth, he was…

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Corden’s baker runs afoul of Streep’s witch.
The crucial masterstroke of Into the Woods is...
By Robert Horton • December 16, 2014 12:04 pm

The crucial masterstroke of Into the Woods is that the fairy-tale happy ending comes halfway through the action. What exactly…

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Turing and his proto-PC.
The Imitation Game proves that a ripping true...
By Robert Horton • December 16, 2014 12:04 pm

The Imitation Game proves that a ripping true story can survive even the Oscar-bait effect. This is a profile of…

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Azog is back to meet his just dessert on the battlefield.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies...
By Robert Horton • December 15, 2014 5:22 pm

The Hobbit: 
The Battle of the Five Armies Opens Wed., Dec. 17 at Cinerama and other theaters. Rated PG-13. 144…

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Final fountain? Plummer and MacLaine.Michele K. Short/Millennium Ent.
Elsa & Fred Opens Fri., Dec. 19 at...
By Robert Horton • December 15, 2014 5:22 pm

Elsa & Fred Opens Fri., Dec. 19 at Sundance Cinemas. Rated PG-13. 97 minutes. Fifty years ago Shirley MacLaine was…

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Oh no! Is Miss Hannigan (Diaz) drunk again? Annie (Wallis, with Nicolette Pierini) has to wonder.Barry Wetcher/Sony/Columbia
Annie Opens Fri., Dec. 19 at Meridian and...
By Robert Horton • December 15, 2014 5:21 pm

Annie Opens Fri., Dec. 19 at Meridian and 
other theaters. Rated PG. 119 minutes. Musical-theater purists can be almost as…

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Allen (Rock) grimaces for the cameras with his supposed fiancEe (Union).Ali Paige Goldstein/Paramount
Top Five Opens Thurs., Dec. 11 at SIFF...
By Robert Horton • December 9, 2014 11:21 am

Top Five Opens Thurs., Dec. 11 at SIFF Cinema Egyptian and other theaters. 
Rated R. 101 minutes. If Chris Rock’s…

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Disaster on the Gulf.RADiUS-TWC
The Great Invisible Opens Fri., Dec. 12 at...
By Robert Horton • December 9, 2014 11:21 am

The Great Invisible Opens Fri., Dec. 12 at Harvard Exit. 
Rated PG-13. 92 minutes. Is a documentary an information-delivery system…

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DF-01354 - Moses (Christian Bale, right) confronts Ramses (Joel Edgerton).
Exodus: Gods and Kings Opens Fri., Dec. 12...
By Robert Horton • December 9, 2014 11:21 am

Exodus: Gods and Kings Opens Fri., Dec. 12 at Majestic Bay and other theaters. Rated PG-13. 146 minutes. The gulf…

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