Friday, February 10th, 2012
Sweet noises lift a static plot
All hail the Queen. By which, of course, I mean the sovereign named Latifah, the screen powerhouse whose effect on moviegoers is to make them sit taller, breathe more deeply, and open hearts more fully. I am a faithful subject who unapologetically enjoys Queen Latifah's movie vehicles, however shiny or rusty.
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She wants to be one of the guys
It's a sun-dappled summer. Laure (Zoe Heran), a 10-year-old girl with close-cropped hair, watchful eyes and enigmatic smile moves with her parents and younger sister to an apartment complex in a suburb outside Paris.
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"Shame": Tale of siblings sexually haunted
Brandon, the tightly wrapped Manhattan businessman played by Michael Fassbender in Steve McQueen's Shame, is a puzzle missing a few pieces, mostly around the heart.
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"W.E.": Portrait of the playgirl who won a king
I'm almost always happy to see a movie about a woman. It follows, then, that I should be doubly happy this early in the new year that The Weinstein Co. has given us not one, but two biopics about a pair of the most polarizing figures in 20th-century England. Margaret Thatcher is the subject of Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady; Wallis Simpson of Madonna's W.E.
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"Pariah": A young girl's coming of age and coming out
For all adolescent girls, the teenage years are a time of chrysalis, a time when caterpillars become butterflies. This is especially true for Alike (say: ah-LEE-kay), a Brooklyn high-schooler known in certain quarters by the name of Lee. Describing her own metamorphosis in a poem for her Advanced Placement writing class, Alike likens herself to a butterfly choking in the cocoon of its own change.
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Sweet zoo story crushed by stampeding metaphors
Inspired by Benjamin Mee's memoir, We Bought a Zoo is family entertainment in the spirit (and fur) of Marley & Me, a freewheeling account of parents, children, animals, life, death, grief, and moving on. It is an ideal film for multigenerational holiday moviegoing, pleasant if insubstantial. Like its emotionally paralyzed central figure, Ben (Matt Damon), it takes some time to get going.
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Elmo's alter ego: Portrait of Sesame St. puppeteer
This story previously appeared in October during the Philadelphia Film Fest. Kevin Clash, an African American kid from a working-class Baltimore neighborhood, did not create the beloved Sesame Street puppet Elmo.
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5 little short stories, one's a real winner
Where feature films conform to the three-act structure of drama, movie short subjects are more like short stories. "The Shore," the best among this year's Oscar nominees for live-action shorts, has the surprise twist of an O. Henry tale. Written and directed by Terry George, the Northern Irish filmmaker behind Hotel Rwanda and In the Name of the Father, this
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