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Lifting Prometheus up with a higher class of mixed reaction, Salon’s review gets a score of 80, IndieWire and EW’s Lisa Schwarzbaum say B+ Roger Ebert gives it a perfect 4-star rating. Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing...

Embargo blown. Nothing new. Variety and THR typically play with a disregard for rules that comes from decades of cavalier entitlement. I always feel...

The first few scenes of Andrew Dominik’s masterful Killing Them Softly, you think you are in the presence of two idiots who have no idea what they’re...

Alain Resnais’ You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet is a tribute to the director’s love of theater. More than that, it puts together his notion that film and theater are one in the same. He plays with structure and narrative here much the way he always has and that might be the film’s biggest problem. On the other hand, if you can dig Resnais, even now,...

When you really love someone a lifetime it transcends every other kind of love. Romantic love gets nowhere near it. It’s a bond so strong, in fact,...

The violence is kept onscreen in John Hillcoat’s Lawless. He never shies away from it, which is really one of the key things you need to make a...

Reality, as Robin Williams once said, what a concept. But he had no way of knowing how that word would come to be defined in the 90s and through the turn of the millennium. How could he have known. Who would have ever thought that millions of people would tune in to watch other people just live. In Matteo Garrone’s Reality, Aniello Arena plays Luciano, a man...