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The movie's stylistic approach is rigorous: We are never allowed to luxuriate in the splendor of these new surroundings. The apartment is never quite seen, never relaxed in. When the girl comes to share Fox's bed, they are seen momentarily, in silhouette. Sex and possessions are secondary to trading, to the action.
Mar 15, 2002 · Roger Ebert March 15, 2002. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "Ice Age" is a pleasure to look at and scarcely less fun as a story. I came to scoff and stayed to smile. I confess the premise did not inspire me: A woolly mammoth, a sabertooth tiger and a sloth team up to rescue a human baby and return it to its parents. Uh, huh.
Dec 14, 2023 · Much has been explained by Glazer about the two movies occurring within “The Zone of Interest” (the one perceived through sight and the other through sound). That tension is obvious, yet no less powerful. Much has also been made of the banality of evil. The Höss family live next door to ongoing genocide yet never comment on the horrific ...
Dec 22, 2005 · At crucial times in a nation’s history, its best friends may be its critics. Spielberg did not have to make “Munich,” but he needed to. With this film he has dramatically opened a wider dialogue, helping to make the inarguable into the debatable. As a thriller, “Munich” is efficient, absorbing, effective.
Apr 4, 2013 · Remembrances - Roger Ebert, Longtime Film Critic And Lover Of Cinema, Dies At 70 He was a print journalist initially, but Ebert's "thumbs up" TV critiques were just as influential as his essays ...
Sep 22, 2005 · Of the three levels "A History of Violence" refers to, I think Cronenberg is most interested in the third, in the survival of the fittest. Not the good, the moral, the nice, but the fittest. The movie is based on the graphic novels by John Wagner and Vince Locke. It could also be illuminated by The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins.
Dec 11, 2009 · They look like specific, persuasive individuals, yet sidestep the eerie Uncanny Valley effect. And Cameron and his artists succeed at the difficult challenge of making Neytiri a blue-skinned giantess with golden eyes and a long, supple tail, and yet--I'll be damned. Sexy. At 163 minutes, the film doesn't feel too long.
