March 04, 2009
Film noir can be painful when it's done poorly, but overall, there really doesn't seem to be enough of it out there. Sometimes, you get something as straight-faced and reverent as Brick , and at others, you get goofy-but-affectionate riffs on the genre like Assassination of a High School President a...
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William Goss
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January 25, 2009
(Warning: This one goes up to eleven...) 1. Moon -- Most were admittedly intrigued by the prospect of Sam Rockwell alone and yet potentially not on a lunar station going into the fest, and this seemed to be the first film to live up to its promise as a modest yet straight-up sci-fi endeavor (that ju...
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William Goss
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January 23, 2009
The Missing Person , playing at Sundance even as its star Michael Shannon earns an Oscar nomination for his work in Revolutionary Road, isn't merely a clever, cool spin on the classic private eye story, but it also works as a private eye story. It showcases a lurching, hunched quietly lived-in perfo...
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James Rocchi
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