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Review: Lost River

Lost River, actor Ryan Gosling's directorial debut, is an admirable work though not necessarily for the reasons one might suspect. It is...

There is no such thing as a successful template in the movies. Using the same formula does not always produce the same results. What...

"The wounds of honour are self-inflicted," Morgan Freeman's nobleman Bartok intones as Last Knight's most compellingly acted scene comes...

A severe lack of imagination and messy execution dampen what little fun is to be had in the bloodless comic neo-noir Kill Me Three Times....

Third time is the charm for director Jaume Collet-Serra and actor Liam Neeson, who come together for their strongest and most satisfying...

Small towns offer many pleasures, chief of which is the comfort of a community where everybody knows your name, or at least your face....

Let us get the overstuffed plot out of the way: the sins of London have followed the crew back to Los Angeles. Deckard Shaw (the suitably...

The uncoupling of noted Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his wife Euphemia "Effie" Gray was quite the scandal of its time. Though...

Michael Mann's globetrotting, cyber crime drama Blackhat culminates in a beautifully wrought set piece in Jakarta's Papua Square, where...

Comedies are under no obligation to be anything other than funny. The best and the boldest go for something deeper. Look how the comedies...