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Why You Should See Craft Cocktail Documentary Hey Bartender, Now in Wide Release

2013-06-19 14:09:40

By weaving together the stories behind New York City cocktail lair Employees Only and Westport, Connecticut corner bar Dunvilles, director Douglas Tirola takes on the changing world of bartendin...

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Review: The Attack Is Not Just About Terrorism

2013-06-19 13:07:36

Since it opens with a suicide bombing in downtown Tel Aviv, and since its mystery plot involves an attempt to track down a sheikh whose public expectorations call for the slaughter of Israeli ...

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Review: Downloaded Breezes Through the Story of Napster

2013-06-19 12:04:37

"You cannot build a business on copyright infringement," points out Ian Rogers, the CEO of Topspin, not too long into Downloaded, director Alex Winter's too-breezy account of Napster, the teens...

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Review: In A Hijacking, the Pirate Life Is Tense

2013-06-19 10:45:28

Until 2005 or so, no one thought much about modern piracy of the high-seas variety. But then Somali pirates began attacking merchant ships with increasing frequency, seizing vessels and holding ...

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World War Z Shows Off Some Horrifically Effective Filmmaking

2013-06-17 12:18:00

Destruction is scary, but not half as scary as the act of rebuilding, the moment of looking at the random, jagged pieces you've got left and wondering how the hell you're going to fit them togeth...

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Man of Steel: Making Sense of All That Christ and Death Stuff

2013-06-14 11:45:31

Sometimes, there's just too damn much to say about a movie than can fit into any one review. (Even Stephanie Zacharek's exhaustive, excellent one.) So, here's more: Stephanie Zacharek, our lead f...

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Berberian Sound Studio Is a Lavish Gift to Film Geeks

2013-06-13 12:39:46

A bewitching helix of pure movie stuff, Peter Strickland's seething and self-conscious whatsit Berberian Sound Studio may scan as a psychological thriller, but it's really a lavish gift to film ge...

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Seth Rogen's This Is the End: The Apocalypse With Dick Jokes

2013-06-13 11:39:00

From the peak of Anchorman to the nadir of Burt Wonderstone, the formula for studio comedies of the last 20 years has been simple: Dude acts like a dick for an hour, turns blandly sweet toward th...

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Pandora's Promise Offers One Side of the Nuclear Debate

2013-06-13 10:34:11

Like its gaggle of former anti-nuke environmentalists who've now switched sides, Pandora's Promise takes the form of a traditional liberal pop-doc while proffering a decidedly nonconformist messa...

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To Actresses on the Brink of 40: Go Bad or Go Home.

2013-06-12 09:28:42

Last week, EW columnist Mark Harris tweeted a statistic disturbing to anyone who cares about gender equality on the big screen: "It's now been 61 days since the last wide release of a major studi...

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Review: In Man of Steel, There's Greatness in the Superman Origin Story

2013-06-10 23:00:00

Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel is a movie event with an actual movie inside, crying to get out. Despite its preposterous self-seriousness, its overblown, CGI’ed-to-death climax, and its ...

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Review: Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie Explores A Rightwing Blowhard of Another Era

2013-06-10 14:15:01

Used to be to get famous in the rightwing blowhard racket you had to have an act. Not today. Has anyone ever once thought, "Oh, I can't wait to hear what Sean Hannity's going to say next"? (Or "...

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Review: More Than Honey is a Delightful Journey into the Shrinking World of Bees

2013-06-07 10:09:59

Let's forget, for a moment, that Albert Einstein said that if bees were to disappear from the Earth, humankind would follow four years later. It's bad enough seeing, as we do in Markus Imhoof's...

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Review: The Internship is Worse Than Fetching Coffee

2013-06-06 16:00:00

Eager young people can't find jobs; qualified older people can't find jobs. There's nothing funny about that, which is exactly why someone ought to be making comedies about it. The Internship, in...

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Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer Proves Punk Lives

2013-06-06 11:00:32

Anyone trying to run a civilized country should know that throwing musicians in jail for making music is always a bad idea. That didn't stop Vladimir Putin's government from arresting three memb...

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If George R. R. Martin Wrote Every TV Show Ever

2013-06-06 10:04:56

George R. R. Martin took a break from killing Starks today to send us this list of the notes he would send to the producers of TV shows if he were put in charge of them. [NOTE: We made this up....

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Superman Movies Matter More Than the Comics: A Film-by-Film Breakdown

2013-06-06 09:09:17

Superman is an idea. OK, fine. Technically he's an intellectual property—a set of data points slammed together by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the 1930s, sold for $130 to National Alli...

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The Wall Seems Like It Would Rather Be Reading a Book

2013-05-30 11:21:39

Your end-times fantasy most likely says a lot about you. Adherents to the Left Behind eschatology must at some level relish the notion of everyone who doesn't believe what they believe facing h...

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On Brit Marling's Third Endeavour, The East

2013-05-30 09:16:14

You're either with Brit Marling or you're against her. The 29-year-old blond filmmaker (who describes herself on Twitter as a tree climber/actor/writer/producer) catapulted out of obscurity in ...

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Shakespeare, Comic Books -- for Joss Whedon, It's All the Same Thing

2013-05-29 13:09:56

After completing five months of principal photography on The Avengers, Joss Whedon flew back to Los Angeles and threw himself a welcome-home party. As the guests circled his pool, he asked friends...

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