Noah

Darren Aronofsky’s ambitious and visionary Noah is a vividly rendered epic adventure writ large, using the Biblical tale as a framework for a morality play about faith, obsession and forgiveness.  It’s a story that has fascinated the director since his youth, and in this…

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Bad Words

In today’s overly cautious culture of political correctness, it’s refreshing to have a subversive comedy of all-out annihilation. Bad Words, loaded with uproariously mean-spirited jokes in service of a genuinely creepy character (albeit one played by a likable movie star), takes no prisoners in its…

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Veronica Mars

Whatever the appeal of Veronica Mars may have been on the small screen, it is wholly lost on the big screen version of the same name, a lackluster movie that plays like a television show loaded with in-jokes, hijinks and cardboard characters, and a…

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