For the last 15 years, Pixar has carved out a niche making old-fashioned entertainments that appeal to audiences of all ages without pandering to any one of them. More impressively, they’ve done it using the highest level of craft and without repeating an obvious formula. In nine films they’ve told nine different stories with eight [...]

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Michael J. Smith Sr. in Ballast
Ready or not, it’s officially awards season with the IFP announcing its nominees for the 18th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards (formerly known as the Gotham Awards).
Several films that might be familiar to you if you’ve been reading LiC lately have been showered with a little early awards loving and [...]

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Gabe Nevins in Gus Van Sant’s moody Paranoid Park
This week’s Movies You May Have Missed features a solid line-up of three films that get 3 1/2 stars from LiC. Since these are all scheduled for DVD release on Tuesday, now is the time to readjust your Netflix queue.
Paranoid Park (2008) *** 1/2
Though I haven’t seen [...]

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