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Wednesday, February 2,2011
Movie Reviews

Big Bad Blue

Blue Valentine doesn’t (have to) keep it real

Jonathan Kiefer
Blue Valentine is preceded by the automatic buzz of indie golden-boy director Derek Cianfrance who returned from documentaries to narrative features, with a film reportedly a dozen years in the making.
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Wednesday, January 26,2011
Movie Reviews

Far Trek

The Way Back takes the scenic route

Jonathan Kiefer
Imagine this: It’s Poland in 1940. Under duress of unspecified torture, a young guy’s wife rats him out to cruel Soviet authorities, who call him a spy and send him to the gulag. For a while, the guy languishes there. Then, gathering his inner reserves of fortitude and a few pals, he breaks out.
Wednesday, January 19,2011
Movie Reviews

Omnibore’s Dilemma

The Dilemma has no plans to solve itself

Jonathan Kiefer
It takes a special kind of mainstream mush to waste Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Winona Ryder, Jennifer Connelly and your money all at once. Screenwriter Alan Loeb and director Ron Howard have found the formula. They’ve made a movie so mediocre that it’s completely self-neutralizing.
Wednesday, January 12,2011
Movie Reviews

Grand Furnishings

Tiny Furniture celebrates the little things

Jonathan Kiefer
Should the academy care to inaugurate a new award category this year, for Achievement in Being So Much Less Annoying Than We Expected Given All the Hype, and then fail to bestow it upon Lena Dunham for her film Tiny Furniture, a great opportunity will have been missed.
Wednesday, January 5,2011
Movie Reviews

A Rousing Talk

The King’s Speech doesn’t falter

Jonathan Kiefer
A well-bred crowd-pleaser and so obviously an Oscar magnet that it’s equally obvious to say so, The King’s Speech also happens to be a good movie. We’ll all feel better when the word gets out.
 
 
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