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624 – Moneyball (***)

Posted on January 27, 2012 by frothy

I think the first thing you need to realize about Moneyball is that it’s not really a baseball movie at all. It’s about innovation in the face of intractable, tradition-bound, go-by-the-gut senses. New thinking versus old thinking. In presenting the … Continue reading →

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581 – The Conspirator (***)

Posted on April 17, 2011 by root

The conspirators behind Abraham Lincoln’s murder are rounded up, including the woman who ran the boarding house where the men met to discuss their plans. But did Mary Suratt really have anything to do with the scheme? The government seems … Continue reading →

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460 – What Just Happened

Posted on July 15, 2009 by root

What Just Happened is not a sly, knowing look at the seedy underbelly of the Hollywood system so much as it’s a snarky, muddled insider look at manipulation and officiousness that still manages to be dull and pointless. Robert DeNiro … Continue reading →

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381 – Beowulf

Posted on March 8, 2008 by root

Beowulf wants badly to be an epic movie, with its heroes and kings, its wondrous vistas, its dragons, and its evil demons, and it certainly is a pretty fair film. It’s sort of a combination of 300 and The Polar … Continue reading →

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46 – Unbreakable

Posted on December 1, 2000 by root

M. Night Shyamalan’s follow-up to the wildly successful masterpiece The Sixth Sense is at once arresting and mesmerizing, despite some plot problems. Unbreakable reunites Shyamalan with his Sixth Sense star, Bruce Willis, and reunites Willis with his Die Hard: With … Continue reading →

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