Manohla Dargis offers up one of the best critical arguments for The Hurt Locker

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One of the few movies of 2009 to deserve every ounce of the praise that’s piled on it, Kathyn Bigelow’s story of a EOD (explosive ordinance disposal) unit in Baghdad is relentless from the very first frames and barely rests until the final fade out

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Avatar is ridiculous.
I’ve been chewing it over for the better part of a week (or at least attempting to chew it over – a movie this digitally amplified is so vaporous as to almost refuse mastication), and I’m tempted to upgrade my reflections to ‘fucking ridiculous’. I hold back on the profantiy-enhanced judgement largely because [...]

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Just as pretty flowers spring can spring forth from beds of manure, the tedious Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull is turning out to be quite the fertilizer for interesting critical writing.

Earlier posts here have alluded to the underground re-make of Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Two Mississippi teenagers spent most [...]

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You got some fucked up frends.
Early on in Fight Club, that’s what Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) says to Ed Norton after meeting the Gothically damaged Marla. You got some fucked up friends! He’s practically gloating or giddy, ecstatic that he’s met someone more damaged and deranged than he is. It’s lonely in the hinterlands of [...]

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