Part of what makes **"Blue is the Warmest Color,"** opening today at Liberty Hall, so remarkable is its length. In its three hours, Tunisian-born director **Abdellatif Kechiche** pinpoints key moments in the lesbian relationship of two young women. He gives each scene time to breathe and makes sure that above ...
**“All is Lost,”** a stranded-at-sea survival story with almost no dialogue and a soulful lead performance from 77-year-old **Robert Redford**, may suffer the most from bad timing. In the wake of Alfonso Cuaron’s cinematic tour de force “Gravity,” which puts Sandra Bullock in a similar situation — only in deep ...
Just hours before leaving for my big Thanksgiving dinner, I curled up on the couch with our cats Thursday morning and watched a movie that I suddenly realized was strangely and completely appropriate for the holiday season. As 79-year-old former socialite **Edith Bouvier Beale** and her 57-year-old live-in daughter **Edie** ...
During the fall Oscar-wannabe season, the movies that are “based on a true story” come out in full force. Many of them will no doubt play fast and loose with the facts, while others will adhere so closely to what happened that their cinematic versions will come off stilted and ...
Make no mistake, **“12 Years a Slave”** is a horror movie, even though it doesn’t traffic in the kind of otherworldly storytelling that the horror genre is known for. The acclaimed film, opening at [Liberty Hall][1] this weekend, is based on the 1853 first-hand account of a black free man ...
The supernatural-inflected teen romance genre butts uncomfortably up against an apocalyptic survival story in **“How I Live Now,”** which opens this weekend at [Liberty Hall][1]. The journey from bratty to maturity is a quick one for the film’s main character, and it’s brought about by — what else? — her ...
Summit Entertainment is the studio behind the recent young-adult mega-hit adaptations of the “Twilight” series of books and “The Hunger Games,” so it was with much trepidation and skepticism that I approached the company’s most recent stab at launching a kid-friendly sci-fi franchise, **“Ender’s Game.”** Based on the widely revered ...
Early on in the grim, **Cormac McCarthy**-penned movie **“The Counselor,”** a spiky-haired nightclub owner (**Javier Bardem**) explains to his lawyer (**Michael Fassbender**) that the people involved in the U.S.-Mexican drug trade are not to be taken lightly. One of their methods of assassination, he says, involves a motorized wire that’s ...
The obvious question that comes up when discussing the new remake of Brian De Palma’s 1976 horror classic **“Carrie”** is why remake it at all? De Palma’s lean **Stephen King** adaptation starring Sissy Spacek in the iconic title role was equal parts stylish and sleazy, mixing exploitative elements with bold ...
**Paul Greengrass**' highest-profile films are probably "The Bourne Supremacy" and "The Bourne Ultimatum," but the director cut his teeth on "Bloody Sunday," a movie that recounts a tragic 1972 massacre of Irish protesters by British troops. In that film, his handheld camera style and unadorned soundtrack help to achieve an ...
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