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Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman
By Mary Tillman with Narda Zacchino
Hardcover $17.13
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By Enrico Coen
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By Richard Schickel — The film year is, alas, a “disappointment.” The very idea of making a 10 Best list seems either laughable or a task comparable in difficulty to translating the Rosetta Stone.
Posted on Jan 4, 2013
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By Richard Schickel — There are times when a cast of dozens, working intensely, is actually superior to a cast of hundreds working routinely.
Posted on Dec 26, 2012
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By Richard Schickel — I think the message of “Amour,” if it may be said to have one, is that love is sometimes—probably rarely—eternal.
Posted on Dec 20, 2012
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By Richard Schickel — So far, I have not seen any negative reviews of “Zero Dark Thirty” and it is with some reluctance that I’m about to write one.
Posted on Dec 15, 2012
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By Richard Schickel — What makes “Hyde Park on Hudson” a good deal more than delightful is its lightly touched seriousness of purpose.
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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By Richard Schickel — He was never dark or monstrous as this film makes him seem. Rather the opposite. There was something—well—childlike about him.
Posted on Nov 26, 2012
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By Richard Schickel — Lincoln is inherently a static and talkative subject that Spielberg has triumphed over not through avoidance, but by embrace.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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By Richard Schickel — “Flight” is a mildly unsatisfying film, chiefly, I think, because we’ve been here before.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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By Richard Schickel — I don’t know how much of the picture—beyond its basic premise—is “true.” And, frankly, I don’t give a damn.
Posted on Oct 15, 2012
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Still from "The House I Live In" courtesy Derek Hallquist
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By Peter Z. Scheer — A new documentary about prison and the drug war makes the science fiction dystopias of “Looper” and “Dredd 3D” feel disturbingly plausible.
Posted on Oct 1, 2012
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Detail from "The Master" poster via IMDb
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By Richard Schickel — The critics simply have too much invested in the still young director to acknowledge that “The Master” has to rank somewhere between a disappointment and a disaster.
Posted on Sep 17, 2012
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By Richard Schickel — We want it to be good. We certainly don’t want it to be the occasion for tragedy. What we are forced to settle for, though, is aimlessness.
Posted on Jul 23, 2012
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By Peter Z. Scheer — “Magic Mike” is an entertaining movie that unfortunately lacks the courage of its own predilections.
Posted on Jul 2, 2012
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By Richard Schickel — There is no reason not to see something like “To Rome With Love.” It’s an amiable film. But it’s also something like a bag full of querulous cats, brimming with comic ideas that only occasionally come together in sustained, well-developed riffs.
Posted on Jun 30, 2012
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By Richard Schickel — No movie dedicated to Kim Jong Il can be all bad. On the other hand, “The Dictator,” the product of Sacha Baron Cohen, cannot be all good either.
Posted on May 20, 2012
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Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued
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