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Film Review: “Power and Impotence” — A Cold Look at a Hot Story

October 14, 2015
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Divided into three acts and an epilogue, the film attempts to generate Shakespearean resonances, but the presentation is more mundane than tragic.

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Film Review: “The Walk”—A Death-Defying Journey to Remember

October 13, 2015
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Philippe Petit’s feat has inspired an amazing documentary, and now an amazing feature film.

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Film Review: “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead”—The Rise and Fall of the National Lampoon

October 12, 2015
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is mostly a straight-ahead telling of the vivid life of the National Lampoon.

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Film Review: “Sicario”—Horror, South of the Border

October 11, 2015
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Whatever its flaws, Sicario goes a long way to informing us of what’s happening just south of the border — not driven by illegal immigration, but by American drug lust.

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Film Review: “Meet the Patels”—The Search for Married Bliss, The Indian Way

October 7, 2015
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Does Meet the Patels ever go deeper than an amusing family comedy? It does for a time…

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Fuse Commentary: “Pawn Sacrifice” — Missing Bobby Fischer

October 6, 2015
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I wish I had more thumbs to turn down about Pawn Sacrifice.

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Film DVD Review: 1931’s “The Front Page” — Restored

October 6, 2015
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The improved viewing experience of the 1931 version of The Front Page enhances the stature of director Lewis Milestone as an early-talkie innovator and shows off the crack ensemble cast.

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Film Review: “Breathe” — French Teens and the Sins of the Parents

October 3, 2015
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Complex and nuanced, Breathe thankfully owes little to our current assembly line of teen angst flicks.

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Film Review: “The Second Mother” — A Sensitive Study of Class Consciousness in Brazil

September 28, 2015
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The actors draw you in, so there is no need for extraneous exposition as the film carefully examines the ironies of the Brazilian class system.

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Film Review: “Fidelio: Alice’s Odyssey” — Obsessively Sexual

September 27, 2015
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This film, written and directed by Lucie Borleteau, is not exactly feminist, nor need it be.

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