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    Articles by Scott Foundas
    Chastain's Maya doesn't need to be pushed into the hunt.
    Zero Dark Thirty: Jessica Chastain Vows to Kill...
    By Scott Foundas • December 31, 2012 12:00 am

    Just so you know, it’s going to take a while,” says the CIA officer to his newly arrived colleague at…

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    Waltz and Foxx as unlikely allies.
    Django Unchained: Tarantino Rewrites Antebellum History
    By Scott Foundas • December 18, 2012 12:00 am

    Watching Django Unchained, it’s easy to imagine that Quentin Tarantino had such a blast making Inglourious Basterds that he decided to take his…

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    Crowe as Inspector Javert.
    Les Miserables: Yes, Even Russell Crowe Sings
    By Scott Foundas • December 18, 2012 12:00 am

    You can hear the people sing—really hear them—in the long-gestating screen version of that Broadway juggernaut Les Misérables. Countering the…

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    Freeman has far more personality than his dwarf cohort.
    Film: Peter Jackson’s Huge-Ass Hobbit
    By Scott Foundas • December 11, 2012 12:00 am

    Peter Jackson’s new Tolkien adaptation has been supersized for three holiday seasons.

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    Anderson directs Phoenix.
    Paul Thomas Anderson on The Master
    By Scott Foundas • September 19, 2012 12:00 am

    “I’ve made six movies, and I feel like I’m only just finally figuring out how this business fucking works,” Paul…

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    On Its Centennial, Paramount Pictures Celebrates Its Peak: The 1970s
    On Its Centennial, Paramount Pictures Celebrates Its Peak:...
    By Scott Foundas • June 8, 2012 12:00 am

    It’s a warm spring evening on the Paramount Pictures lot in Hollywood, and the crowd jostling for hors d’oeuvres in…

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    Firth: dressed for a funeral.
    A Single Man: Groomed to Death
    By Scott Foundas • December 22, 2009 12:00 am

    Tom Ford applies too much polish to a Christopher Isherwood novel.

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    Kitsch bombshell Cruz.
    Nine: Fellini, 8½. Marshall, 0
    By Scott Foundas • December 22, 2009 12:00 am

    The director of Chicago goes to war against himself.

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    Streep and Baldwin muss their divorce with ex-sex.
    It’s Complicated: Empty Nest
    By Scott Foundas • December 22, 2009 12:00 am

    Catering to female filmgoers of a certain age, Nancy Meyers keeps
    making the same movie over and over again.

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    Tiana follows her froggy dreams.
    The Princess and the Frog: Disney Runs Afoul...
    By Scott Foundas • December 8, 2009 12:00 am

    Six decades after unleashing the persistent NAACP bugaboo Song of the South (1946), that peculiar cultural institution known as the…

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    Dressed like the director, Clooney’s brigand leads his band into action.
    Fantastic Mr. Fox: George Clooney Wants to Steal...
    By Scott Foundas • November 23, 2009 12:00 am

    Given his preference for static, symmetrical, scrupulously color-coordinated and art-directed compositions, it’s less surprising that Wes Anderson has gotten around…

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    Tony Leung lends his star power as a warring general.
    Red Cliff: John Woo’s Shorter Cut Is Still...
    By Scott Foundas • November 23, 2009 12:00 am

    After a decade navigating Hollywood, John Woo returned to China to make his latest film, but scale back he did…

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    Patton (right) shares some of her light with Sidibe.
    Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire:...
    By Scott Foundas • November 16, 2009 12:00 am

    In her broad outlines, Claireece Precious Jones risks sounding like the epitome of ghetto cliché: an obese, illiterate 16-year-old; mother…

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    Clement is best among broncs.
    Gentlemen Broncos: Only Jemaine Clement Makes It Watchable
    By Scott Foundas • November 9, 2009 12:00 am

    Nothing if not consistent, Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre director Jared Hess once again presents adolescence as a depressive, outsider…

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    Jovovich is the hottest M.D. in Nome.
    The Fourth Kind: Milla Jovovich Is a Doctor?...
    By Scott Foundas • November 3, 2009 12:00 am

    Seventy-one years after Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio broadcast snookered a gullible American public with its real-time alien-invasion…

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    Mulligan flowers with and without Sarsgaard’s help.
    An Education: The Decade She Became a Woman
    By Scott Foundas • November 3, 2009 12:00 am

    The title is a double entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber’s memoir about the…

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    Western Europe offers no reprieve for Seidl's characters.
    Import/Export: Ugliness on Both Sides of the Old...
    By Scott Foundas • November 3, 2009 12:00 am

    Like its bifurcated title, Ulrich Seidl’s film offers an exercise in parallel storytelling, tracing the journeys of Olga (the excellent…

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    It's alwys a pleasure to hear from Marcovicci.
    Irene in Time: Henry Jaglom Refuses to Retire
    By Scott Foundas • October 27, 2009 12:00 am

    Casually dismissed by those who place a premium on things like narrative, visual lucidity, and editorial smoothness, writer/director/emotional exhibitionist/mumblecore forefather…

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    Members of the Cofán patrol the Aguarico River.
    Crude: Our Thirsty SUVs Destroy Latin America
    By Scott Foundas • October 20, 2009 12:00 am

    Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Why? Because it’s thick with sludge. Moving briskly through a serpentine,…

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    Turgoose discovers the big city.
    PICK Somers Town: An Adorable Boy Lost in...
    By Scott Foundas • September 15, 2009 12:00 am

    Commissioned by the Eurostar train company as part of the promotional campaign for its new high-speed rail service from London…

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    Wood’s and Connelly’s characters feel a mechanical connection.
    9: Animated Puppets Survive the Apocalypse
    By Scott Foundas • September 8, 2009 12:00 am

    Early in Shane Acker’s computer-animated debut feature 9, a diminutive anthropomorphic whatsit with wooden hands, copper fingers, and the titular…

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    An alien being rounded up for Gitmo.
    PICK District 9: E.T. Goes to Guantánamo
    By Scott Foundas • August 11, 2009 12:00 am

    The aliens have been with us for 20 years already at the start of South African director Neill Blomkamp’s fast…

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    Yes, that’s Jamie Lee Curtis in Roadgames—worth finding on VHS.
    PICK Not Quite Hollywood: Exploitation in Oz
    By Scott Foundas • August 11, 2009 12:00 am

    At the same moment that directors like Peter Weir and Gillian Armstrong were earning festival kudos and critical acclaim for…

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