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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 — 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 — 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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By Carrie Rickey — Do we learn anything about Margaret Thatcher from Abi Morgan’s screenplay? And more important, will anyone born after Thatcher’s 11 years in office learn anything about her brand of conservatism and its effects?
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By Richard Schickel — Boy gets horse. Boy loses horse. Boy (after many adventures, especially by the horse) is reunited with the animal. In terms of narrative, that’s all there is to “War Horse”—except to say that Steven Spielberg’s film is a lovely and touching movie, representing, among other things, a vast improvement on the extraordinarily successful novel and stage play.
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By Richard Schickel — We exist today in a climate of movie extremes—extreme action, extreme comedy. There are not many mild, agreeable pictures that take place in pleasant surroundings and set people we can identify with to dealing with issues that at sometime or other all of us will have to engage.
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By Richard Schickel — This is a brave film. There was a time when J. Edgar Hoover was among the most prominent Americans and there was no way to make a reasonably honest movie about him. Now there is a tendency to ask, J. Edgar Who?
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By Richard Schickel — Morris’ film has a giddy quality. But, essentially, he is trying to keep a straight face amid the chaos he is recounting. Come right down to it, what could a filmmaker add to this story by striking attitudes toward the events he recounts?
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By Richard Schickel — “Larry Crowne” is a wan and predictable romantic comedy, much more the former than the latter. It is, for me at least, a major disappointment.
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By Richard Schickel — “City of Life and Death,” by the Chinese writer-director Lu Chuan, is the second film about Nanking, and it is a work that aspires to the definitive and almost achieves that status.
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By Sheerly Avni — Hey Hollywood, we’ve got your next blockbuster. It’s heartwarming, politically relevant, uncontroversial and, best of all, based on a true story!
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By Richard Schickel — What I’m saying is that Herzog is a director whose work is never to be missed, for the simple reason that he takes you places—especially in his documentaries—that no other director thinks of going.
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By Richard Schickel — What is ironically fictional in “Even the Rain’s” story is the intrusion on a volatile situation of a film crew intent on portraying Christopher Columbus’ not entirely benign arrival in the New World.
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