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Anticipating the Oscars: These might contend
My Academy Awards predictions — and honestly, why not start now, a month before the nominations are announced? — carry an odor akin to Paul Rudd's cologne in "Anchorman": 60 percent of the time, they're right every time. This week the awards...
Tags: Argo (movie), Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Entertainment, The Hurt Locker (movie)
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'Silver Linings Playbook': Humanity in high-maintenance characters ★★★ 1/2
Hollywood movies, and even off-Hollywood independent films, have long encouraged us to empathize with unstable or psychologically troubled characters only if they're "kooky" for a little while, as a prelude to more palatable, normalized levels of...
Tags: Bradley Cooper, Entertainment, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Paul Thomas Anderson, The Fighter (movie)
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Toronto Film Festival Day 2 recap: The Master's domain!
Here's a Day 2 recap from the Toronto International Film Festival. Everybody sees a different slate of movies each day here. Friday went this way: After the gamer-oriented slaughter of “Dredd 3D,” the fanciful and tricksy theatrics of director...
Tags: Anna Karenina (movie), Toronto International Film Festival, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Entertainment, Music Box Theatre
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Toronto's Hollywood juggernaut can't swamp indie pleasures
In "Argo," one of the leanest satisfactions of this year's massive Toronto International Film Festival, director and star Ben Affleck anchors a movie based on the true story about how Central Intelligence Agency operative Tony Mendez faked his way into...
Tags: Argo (movie), Toronto International Film Festival, Dog Day Afternoon (movie), Tom Hanks, The Matrix (movie)
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'The Master' offers a cinematic world unlike any other
Already open in New York and Los Angeles and going into general release Friday, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's strange, audacious drama "The Master" evokes a feverish state of mind more than a conventional movie, though its story can be...
Tags: Toronto International Film Festival, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Entertainment, Music Box Theatre, Magnolia (movie)
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Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman's 'The Master' set for record-breaking opening weekend
Pop2itPaul Thomas Anderson's Scientology-inspired awards contender grossed $242,127 from five theaters for a remarkable $48,425 per-screen average; "Resident Evil: Retribution" was No.1 with $8.4 million.... -
Golden Globe nominations 2013: 'Lincoln,' 'Argo,' 'Zero Dark Thirty' top list
Two vastly different films about the scourge of slavery in America, a thriller about the rescue of American hostages in Iran and a study of the dogged quest to capture one of the world's most wanted men -- Osama bin Laden -- were among the top nominees...
Tags: Les Miserables (musical), Screen Actors Guild, Comedy (genre), Kathryn Bigelow, Schindler's List (movie)
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Critics' Choice Movie Awards: The complete nominations list
"Lincoln" earned a record-breaking 13 nominations for Broadcast Film Critics Assn.'s Critics' Choice Movie Awards. It received nominations for best film, director for Steven Spielberg, actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, supporting actress for Sally Field,...
Tags: Les Miserables (musical), Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Wahlberg, Sally Field, Janusz Kaminski
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L.A. Film Critics name 'Amour' 2012's best, praise 'The Master'
After being snubbed by major critics groups this award season, “The Master” got a boost Sunday from the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. The Paul Thomas Anderson-directed film was awarded more prizes than any other film, taking home honors for...
Tags: Roger Deakins, Argo (movie), Les Miserables (musical), Kathryn Bigelow, Reviews
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Spiritual themes get a patient, observational treatment in 'New Jerusalem' ★★★
In the movies, evangelical Christians are seldom treated as anything other than blinkered bundles of piety, or worse. So in "New Jerusalem," it's something of a shock to see the character played by Will Oldham (an actor-musician who performs, in his other...
Tags: The Comedy (movie), Entertainment, Bonnie Prince Billy, Paul Thomas Anderson, Movies
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Best movies of 2012: 'Pi,' 'Master,' 'Moonrise Kingdom' make cut
It's as if this year filmmakers remembered why God made movies. In a world of nonstop data where most of the static is gossip in 140 soul-destroying words or less, cinema has had a transcendent 12 months — a visual renaissance that has burned past...Tags: Anna Karenina (movie), Les Miserables (musical), Entertainment, The Turin Horse (movie), Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie)
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Movie awards: Unusual joins usual
More cinema awards. The Los Angeles Film Critics Circle has a reputation for sometimes picking unusual choices. This year, the critics honored "Amour" (picture and female actor Emmanuelle Riva), "The Master" (director P.T. Anderson, actors Joaquin...
Tags: Les Miserables (musical), 60 Minutes (tv program), Romola Garai, Talk Shows (genre), Sally Field
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Dec 13, 2012
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Dec 6, 2012
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Dec 14, 2012
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Dec 13, 2012
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