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Movie criticism (mostly foreign films, documentaries and independents: big Hollywood product hardly needs more marketing), very occasional interviews from James van Maanen, now 80 years old, who began his late-career movie reviewing for GreenCine, then took the big blog step over a decade ago. He covers new movies, video releases, and occasional streaming choices. You can reach him at JamesvanMaanen@gmail.com

Showing posts with label competition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label competition. Show all posts
Saturday, March 3, 2018

Daley/Goldstein/Perez's GAME NIGHT: smart, fast, witty, laugh-out-loud Hollywood comedy

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TrustMovies has not laughed this much or this consistently throughout a mainstream comedy in a very long time.  GAME NIGHT , written ...
Friday, March 3, 2017

The most embarrassing "old friend" of all time? Kris Avedisian's DONALD CRIED opens

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The not-exactly-new tale of a man who has left his boyhood town and returns there to handle the estate of his deceased grandmother but -...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

ON THE MAP: Dani Menkin's ode to world basketball and the surprising '77 Israeli team

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I suspect you will have to be neither a huge basketball fan nor a staunch lover of Israel to still be amazed and moved by the new docume...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Jim Field Smith and Jason A. Micallef whip BUTTER into an odd, off-key amusement

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A strange mix of satire, sweetness, sentimentality and snark, BUTTER would seem to be the kind of movie that wants to have its cake (wi...
Sunday, July 1, 2012

Duplass brothers' short, smart DO-DECA-PENTATHLON brings mumblecore full circle

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Like The Puffy Chair on steroids,   the newest film from those ubiquitous Duplass brothers, Jay and Mark , seems in one sense to have ...
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