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MUD

“Mud” is an exceptional coming-of-age story

Alex Williams April 26, 2013

To a degree, cinema has become standardized to a set of audience expectations, with many movies defined as superficial variations on something you’ve seen before, which means that films with the...

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Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t believe I never watched ‘Friday Night Lights’

Trey Scott April 24, 2013

I was both the perfect candidate to watch and not to watch “Friday Night Lights.” The show, which premiered in 2006 and ended in 2011, centers around life in the fictional town of Dillon,...

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Lazy Saturday Netflix suggestions

Alex Williams April 19, 2013

It’s half past four on a smoky Saturday afternoon. You could get off your couch, but why muster all that energy when you’ve got Cheetos, enough cash to tip the pizza guy and a Netflix account?...

Oblivion

“Oblivion” is little more than a mixtape for sci-fi fans

Alex Williams April 19, 2013

Joseph Kosinski’s debut feature, “Tron: Legacy,” was a visual marvel with a script that failed to connect on any sort of logical or emotional level, rendering the film an empty exercise...

Trance

‘Trance’ is all flash and no substance

Alex Williams April 12, 2013

“Trance,” the new film from “127 Hours” director Danny Boyle, exudes pure, unflappable confidence in every single frame. The neo-noir bristles with the purpose of a practiced storyteller...

PlaceBeyondthePines

“The Place Beyond the Pines” is an overreaching, thematically confused follow-up to “Blue Valentine”

Alex Williams April 12, 2013

Three years after the devastating “Blue Valentine” garnered an Oscar nomination for Michelle Williams’ performance, director Derek Cianfrance returns with the overly ambitious “The...

EvilDead

“Evil Dead”‘s showers of blood will satisfy the most weathered horror fans.

Alex Williams April 5, 2013

Remakes are tricky to get right, not just because they’re setting themselves up for comparison to another, usually better, film, but because they have to figure out how to put their own twist on...

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“Wrong” gets a lot right

Alex Williams March 29, 2013

When a film opens with a shot of a group of firefighters watching one of their own poop in the middle of a street while a car burns to a crisp in the background, you know that it’s going to operate...

GameofThrones

Season Three of “Game of Thrones” maintains large cast, large body count

Alex Williams March 29, 2013

As our government continues to fight a War on Drugs, HBO has quietly figured out the science of the televised equivalent of crack cocaine, and it’s called it “Game of Thrones.” Anyone...

Gameofthronesrecap

A recap of the second season of “Game of Thrones”

Willa Young March 29, 2013

The first two seasons of HBO’s adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s series of fantasy novels included incestuous twins, pushing children out of windows, beheadings and terrifying ornithology....

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“Stoker” is an impressive, gorgeous American debut for director Chan-wook Park

Alex Williams March 22, 2013

Korean director Chan-wook Park has built an overseas following by delivering violent, sensual revenge films with impressive style. Park doesn’t step too far outside of his comfort zone in his English-language...

“The ABCs of Death” entertains despite inconsistencies

Alex Williams March 22, 2013

Horror anthologies are notoriously spotty, and “The ABCs of Death,” a brainchild of Alamo Drafthouse CEO Tim League and producer Ant Timpson, proves that it’s impossible to round up 26...

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