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    BRIDGE OF SPIES

    The Cold War, which provides the historical context for Steven Spielberg's new film BRIDGE OF SPIES, is one of modern history's more stupid phases (BRIDGE OF SPIES is based on real historical events), a Thanksgiving Day parade of hypocrites high on reefer-madness paranoia about the other guy. That era gave us doctrines, an arms race, the constant threat of mutually-assured destruction and a movie franchise

    December 6, 2015
  • Cannes, Cannes Archives, Featured Review, Festivals

    CANNES DAY 3 – ATOM EGOYAN’S THE CAPTIVE

    (CONTAINS SPOILER ALERTS) Atom Egoyan’s to-catch-a-child-abductor caper “The Captive” was the third competition entry to arrive here. The motif of young ones in distress amid snow-clogged landscapes will no doubt bring to mind the director’s harrowing “The Sweet Hereafter,” which was a big prizewinner here in 1997. Sadly “Captive” does not come close to “Hereafter” in emotional force and restraint. Instead it brings to

    May 18, 2014
  • In Theaters Now, Movies

    Win-Win

    After the affably quirky “Station Agent” and the quietly heartbreaking […]

    April 25, 2011
  • In Theaters Now, Movies

    Changeling

    With its overwrought emotions and black-and-white morality, melodrama is a […]

    October 24, 2008

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