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Carnage
REVIEW: Polanski's acerbic latest certainly betrays its theatrical roots, but generates more than enough interest by continually complicating our sympathies, argues Richard McCulloch... Read this article (Discuss this) Published on February 19, 2012

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The Artist
ALTERNATE TAKE: Reveals an ambivalent attitude towards the art of early film... Read this article (Discuss this) Published on February 15, 2012

Margin Call: Notes on Hollywood and the Economic Crisis
Hollywood asks us to pity the architects of the economic crisis... Read this article (Discuss this) Published on February 13, 2012

The Alternate Takes Approach
On the ethos and methods of this site... Read this article (Discuss this) Published on March 11, 2011

Reviews

Martha Marcy May Marlene
Thematic clarity in narrative ambiguity... Read this article (Discuss this) Published on February 11, 2012

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Shame
Taps into something fundamental to on- and off-screen sex... Read this article (Discuss this) Published on February 05, 2012

Articles

Imagined Consensus: Pixar and the Age of Aggregated Film Criticism
The critical reception of Cars 2 and the effects of sites like Rotten Tomatoes... Read this article (Discuss this) Published on October 10, 2011

The Descendants
Payne's latest is worth the wait... Read this article (Discuss this) Published on February 06, 2012

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Fincher's adaptation loses something in translation... Read this article (Discuss this) Published on January 28, 2012

Balancing Horror and Comedy in the Scream Series
Jim Holden on how Wes Craven's franchise uses its genre to express its themes... Read this article (Discuss this) Published on June 16, 2011

The Artist
Lacks much that makes early film great... Read this article (Discuss this) Published on January 31, 2012

Hugo
A melancholy paean to film's capacity for connection... Read this article (Discuss this) Published on January 15, 2012

Questioning 'Empowerment': The Reception and Feminism of Sucker Punch
Sucker Punch may be the most genuinely feminist action movie ever to emerge from Hollywood... Read this article (Discuss this) Published on May 26, 2011

Haywire
Invigoratingly physical, but stumbling in other areas... Read this article (Discuss this) Published on January 29, 2012

50/50
Though a screenwriter's film, many of its problems lie in the script... Read this article (Discuss this) Published on January 07, 2012

Thoughts on "So Bad it's Good": The Pleasures of The Room
James MacDowell on issues of value and intention in the appreciation of 'bad' filmmakers... Read this article (Discuss this) Published on May 18, 2011

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