Is it just me or is there a little bit of Toronto ennui in the air? It’s not just indifference at LiC, I’m noticing it on the blogs actually covering the event. I didn’t focus on Toronto last year so perhaps this is par for the course.
I didn’t mention yesterday that Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler [...]
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As Toronto fires up and Venice winds down, here’s a smattering of reviews of the higher profile films critics are talking about.
The Wrestler. Though he found the plot of Darren Aronofsky’s film predictable at times, THR’s Stephen Farber liked this story of a former wrestling star, especially the performances, calling Mickey Rourke’s a career-best:
“Rourke dispenses [...]
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It seems perfectly foolish to link to a review that I’m not going to read and this probably isn’t even the first official review of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Burn After Reading, but it’s the first one that’s come across my newsfeeds and this is how I roll when it comes to the Brothers Coen.
Here’s [...]
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Here’s a quick rundown of some of the news in the last 24 hours or so.
The LA Times speculates on whether The Dark Knight will surpass Titanic’s hallowed $600.8 million domestic box office mark, but unless you account for inflation (ticket prices averaged $4.69 in 1998 compared to an expected $7 this year), it doesn’t [...]
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