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How An Unsubtitled Silent Film Leaves Behind Its Gimmick To Become Profound
Drafthouse Films There's plenty of talking in The Tribe — arguing, lecturing, bargaining. Sometimes it leads to sex, and more often it leads to violence. But none of it is done out loud.Miroslav...
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Why We Need More Stories About Artists Who Don't Become Rich And Famous
Félix de Givry in Eden Broad Green In Eden, we see Daft Punk before they're actually Daft Punk, when they're just Thomas (Vincent Lacoste) and Guy-Man (Arnaud Azoulay), two of the many kids waiting...
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Why Weird Pixar Is The Best Pixar
Inside Out Disney/Pixar Inside Out prompts tears with the effortlessness of someone flicking on a faucet. It has a painstakingly endearing voice cast led by Amy Poehler and Phyllis Smith, with Richard...
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"Ted 2" Is Too Lazy To Be Offensive
Mark Wahlberg and Ted (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) in Ted 2. Universal Pictures Seth MacFarlane is the king of frat boy comedy, a spray-tanned bro turned Hollywood mogul who makes fun of everyone, yet...
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This Is What A Feminist Horror Movie Looks Like
Felt Amplify Something very bad happened to Amy (absorbing first-time actor Amy Everson), the protagonist of Felt.We're never told exactly what it was, but we can guess. "Every time I close my eyes, I...
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"Magic Mike XXL" Is Fan Service In The Best Possible Way
Stephen Boss, Matt Bomer, Kevin Nash, Joe Manganiello, Channing Tatum, and Adam Rodriguez in Magic Mike XXL. Warner Bros. The finest scene in Magic Mike XXL doesn't take place on a stage. It's in a...
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The Best Reality Show On TV Right Now Is Totally Scripted
Natasha Burnett, Freddie Stroma, and Breeda Wool in UnReal. James Dittiger / Lifetime The creaky argument that still gets flung up against reality television like a crucifix before a vampire is that...
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"Terminator Genisys" Is Like Staying Too Long At The Apocalyptic Party
There are pluses and minuses to a franchise with a built-in reset button. SPOILERS WITHIN! These days, franchises never die — they just reboot. So in some ways, the Terminator series, now five...
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You Should Watch This Movie Over Ryan Reynolds' Latest
In one of those quirks of timing that has given us double asteroid disaster movies and two Truman Capote biopics in the same year, there's a pair of new sci-fi films that both happen to be about...
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Behind The Summer's Most Provocative Sex Scene In "Tangerine"
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A Comedy For Anyone Who Wanted "Girls" To Be Meaner
Fort Tilden is all the hipster satire you can handle, and maybe more. Watch the trailer for the new movie, exclusively on BuzzFeed. Orion Releasing It follows Harper (Bridey Elliott) and Allie (Clare...
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Woody Allen's New Movie Proves He Thinks He's Invincible
Emma Stone and Joaquin Phoenix in Woody Allen's Irrational Man. Sony Pictures Classics Kate Aurthur: A light-as-a-feather Woody Allen movie like last year's Magic in the Moonlight was never meant to...
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There’s No Room For "Ant-Man" In Marvel’s Big Plan
Paul Rudd as Ant-Man. Marvel Studios/Disney Enterprises It's become a rule that if you've got a gun hanging on the wall in the first act of your story, then it ought to go off by the third. So it only...
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Amy Schumer Is More Than Seth Rogen With Boobs In "Trainwreck"
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The Most Disturbing Thing About "Southpaw" Isn't How Much Jake Gyllenhaal Bleeds
Gyllenhaal has beefed up impressively for the boxing movie, but gets shown up by a little girl. Jake Gyllenhaal in Southpaw. Weinstein Company Like Rocky Balboa and Homer Simpson, Billy Hope, the...
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"Paper Towns" Almost Makes A Good Point About Manic Pixie Dream Girls
The latest John Green adaptation is too nice for its own good. WARNING: SPOILERS WITHIN! Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff in Paper Towns. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Paper Towns is too nice....
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"Pixels,""Armada," And The Geek Fantasy It's Time To Banish
Michelle Monaghan, Adam Sandler, Josh Gad, and Q*bert in Pixels. Sony Pictures Pixels is about how Adam Sandler saves the world from invading aliens using the skills and know-how he picked up playing...
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The Movie With The Year's Best Female Performance
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All The Single Ladies: Why Movies Need More Platonic Pairings
Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road. Jasin Boland / Warner Bros. One of the understated pleasures of the summer standout Mad Max: Fury Road, a movie that generally opts for glorious...
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"Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation" Shouldn't Be Nearly As Good As It Is
The latest installment in Tom Cruise’s spy franchise manages to be ridiculous amounts of fun despite itself. And here are four reasons why. It's old. Bo Bridges / Paramount Pictures The Mission:...
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