“The Disaster Artist” is the story of how the lives of two men were determined by an intense, bizarre friendship. Readers, of course, will flock to this book expecting the inside story of the making of “The Room,” the 2003 cult film that ranks among the most dreadful, unintentionally hilarious movies ever made. Those searching […]
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“Don Jon” is, on the surface, about addiction. But dig a little deeper and one sees that its true subject is honesty, the first casualty of addiction. Whatever one joneses for, is there a greater effect of getting a fix than than one’s temporary escape from reality’s unforgiving glare? Here, first-time writer/director Joseph Gordon-Levitt explores
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Sapphire represents September birthdays and fifth anniversaries, and while both meanings apply to this year’s Milwaukee Film Festival, the real link is emblematic—like the blue gem, the festival is defined by its sense of constancy. There’s a reason why the festival’s fifth installment feels like its tenth: Since many of the behind-the-scenes players cut their
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The American Cancer Society was founded 100 years ago to take on a disease that the medical community could then do little about. So much has changed in the century since, and for this big birthday, the ACS is renewing their fight against this disease that affects us all, whether directly or indirectly. You can
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“Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz” were cleverly referential, skillfully made comedies, but the final installment in Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost’s so-called Cornetto Trilogy, “The World’s End,” is in another league because it adds a rich human element to the equation. There’s plenty of the previous fun—popular allusions and action tomfoolery—but
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This week on the Critic Speak Podcast, James and I tear into the narrative incomprehensibility and clunky leftism of Neil Blomkamp and Matt Damon’s “Elysium,” we accept “We’re the Millers” because it contains more laughs than any other “comedy” this year, we split on Larry David’s HBO Movie “Clear History,” and we review the new
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“We’re the Millers” might be one of the best comedies of the year. I don’t write that as an endorsement of the film, but as a commentary on comedies. In no other genre is it so difficult to make a classic, while perhaps only horror films are taken less seriously by critics and the public.
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Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Act of Killing” may be the most shocking documentary I’ve ever seen, in the way that it asks the viewer to confront evil head-on. For two hours, the film retains a near-singular focus on its subject, Anwar Congo, an unrepentant executioner of over 1,000 people in the Indonesian genocide of 1965-’66. Congo
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If you’ve listened to the Critic Speak Podcast in recent months, you know that James and Danny have been pretty disappointed in this year’s crop of summer blockbusters. But even when summer movies aren’t so good, what never changes is the dependable pleasure of movie theater concessions. And what could help ease your suffering during
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