Film
Perhaps Top Five is Chris Rock’s penance for doing lucrative-paying voices for the insanely popular Madagascar animation franchise.
Read MoreIn The Gambler, Mark Whalberg gives a performance he should be proud of.
Read MoreWalter is pure evil. Margaret is pure good. And that is Big Eye‘s undoing.
Read MoreWild is a compelling stream-of-consciousness narrative that mirrors how we actually make sense of our life experiences as we have them and then remember them.
Read MoreExodus: Gods and Kings is a tribute to those overblown biblical movies of the 1950s, albeit with all the eye-candy trappings that today’s high tech special effects can offer.
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Read MoreAre men totally useless in Zero Motivation? Well, they can come in handy when you want to use one of them as a sexual object.
Read MoreMariana Rondón’s Bad Hair is a beautifully acted film about the stultifying pressures on downtrodden lives.
Read MoreThese are good people who have grown up playing country and pop music and are committed to giving the people what they want.
Read MoreTommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman could have been an old-fashioned Hollywood Western. Thankfully, it isn’t.
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