Hello and welcome back to Box Office Beat, the column in which I predict the upcoming weekend’s box office results. It’s Super Bowl weekend, meaning Sunday’s grosses should be relatively subdued as Americans stay home, fill up on pizza and nachos, and watch grown men pummel each other. But that doesn’t make the movie-money race […]
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“Seven Psychopaths” is not so much under- or over-written as it is written. It’s a comedic crime thriller that becomes about its own construction ala “Adaptation,” with writer/director Martin McDonaugh figuring as the lead. But unlike the Spike Jonze film, “Seven Psychopaths” never really gels right; its disparate elements, often strong on their own, chafe against
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Todd Solondz’s films are trips into abysses of intense misery, seriously disturbing examinations of lower-middle-class suburban despair. Almost irreverently infused with shocking dark humor and achingly unsentimental, his better works are beautifully strange pieces of filmmaking, aggressively painful stories that manage to feel profound even as they resemble rides through an emotional hell. Then there’s
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It’s a trailery kind of day. Earlier, we brought you the preview for Hollywood royalty Ben Affleck’s latest, Argo, and now we bring you that for indie royalty Todd Solondz’s latest, Dark Horse. The film stars Jordan Gelber as a thirty-something toy collector who still lives with his parents — a topical theme, although with
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