If hope, as Emily Dickinson wrote “is the thing with feathers”, then hype is the two hundred foot tall scaly sea-monster with an appetite for concrete, perched in midtown Manhattan and singing a song of destruction.

It started with a trailer last summer, too cool to even have a name on it. Then months of [...]

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On the surface, Michael Clayton, starring George Clooney, is glossy thriller, sleekly lined like the sedan driven by the eponymous lawyer. Under the hood, though, it’s a different story. It’s powered by a sharply etched character study, content to let the law flash by in glimpses like billboards on a [...]

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Lots of movies fade in gently from black. The Bourne Ultimatum just cuts to the chase. Literally. Matt Damon’s amnesiac assassin is out of breath from the opening frames, and doesn’t get a chance to rest at all in the next hundred-odd minutes. Where some movies have action sequences, The [...]

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