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Anna Karenina movie reviews
Anna Karenina, this week's featured adaptation, is dividing the critics. Shallow, overblown eye candy? Faithful retelling of Tolstoy's tale of doomed lovers? You'll have to judge this one for yourself. But don't be surprised if you get an argument,...
Tags: Entertainment, NPR, Joe Wright, Baz Luhrmann, Movies
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Reel Critics: 'Lincoln' deserves Oscars vote
Steven Spielberg is the premier film director of his generation. When he turns his creative spotlight on major historical events, he has no equal. In "Saving Private Ryan" and "Schindler's List," he brought forth the reality of World War II like no...Tags: Keira Knightley, Entertainment, Saving Private Ryan (movie), Bradley Cooper, Joe Wright
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My favorite moments of 2012
Years ago when I was a student at Northwestern University, a handful of executives at America Online came to my class and explained that you, I and everyone we know would soon find ourselves pleasantly stranded on "information islands." We nodded,...
Tags: The Hunger Games (movie), Music, Chicago Reader, Keegan-Michael Key, Neil Young
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Wrong answers for Newtown
The film "Casablanca" has many famous lines, but none more immortal than Capt. Renault's order after seeing a Nazi officer shot by Humphrey Bogart's character, Rick Blaine: "Round up the usual suspects." He issues that command to give the impression he'...
Tags: Casablanca (movie), Entertainment, Personal Weapon Control, Asperger Syndrome, Behavioral Conditions
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Life of Pi movie reviews
This holiday season may be the greatest ever for book adaptations, and this week, we have a visual stunner: "Life of Pi," Ang Lee's take on the best-selling Yann Martel novel. Among the other big adaptations is "Lincoln," the Steven Spielberg movie that...
Tags: Steven Spielberg, Les Miserables (musical), Entertainment, Ang Lee, Life of Pi (movie)
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Joe Wright's version of Tolstoy classic 'Anna Karenina' a hit-or-miss proposition ★★ 1/2
Like most alleged love-it-or-hate-it propositions, the new film version of "Anna Karenina" is neither. Rather, it's a half-success — a baldly conceptual response to the Leo Tolstoy novel, with a heavy theatrical framework placed around the narrative...
Tags: Entertainment, Atonement (movie), Joe Wright, Horse and Harness Racing, Sports
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Toronto Film Festival Day 2 recap: The Master's domain!
Here's a Day 2 recap from the Toronto International Film Festival. Everybody sees a different slate of movies each day here. Friday went this way: After the gamer-oriented slaughter of “Dredd 3D,” the fanciful and tricksy theatrics of director...
Tags: Entertainment, Festive Events, Joe Wright, There Will Be Blood (movie), Film Festivals
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Toronto's Hollywood juggernaut can't swamp indie pleasures
In "Argo," one of the leanest satisfactions of this year's massive Toronto International Film Festival, director and star Ben Affleck anchors a movie based on the true story about how Central Intelligence Agency operative Tony Mendez faked his way into...
Tags: Entertainment, Festive Events, Entertainment Events, Tom Hanks, Michael Haneke
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