Rust and Bone opens Friday (see times below) Our rating: While many movies are made from fiction sources, we tend to be most aware of the famous ones: Atonement, Harry Potter, The Hobbit. Having an existing fan base for a story is great for financing and marketing the movie, but it also tends to tie […]
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Django Unchained
Django Unchained Opens Tuesday For his most recent film, 2009’s Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino restaged World War II so that his Jewish heroes had their revenge on the Nazis. It ended in an orgy of violence, and I loved it. Likewise, Tarantino’s new film, Django Unchained, is a pulp fantasy of the antebellum South in […]
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Hitchcock is a travesty
Hitchcock opens Friday (see times below) Our rating: I normally take great pains to avoid reviews of films that I’m preparing to write about, but the following tweet from GQ film reviewer Tom Carson, who I used to read regularly, long ago, in the Village Voice, popped up in my timeline before I could unsee […]
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Danish dynasts in A Royal Affair
A Royal Affair opens Friday (see times below) Our rating: In the mood for a tale of passion and tumult in 18th-century Denmark? A new film, A Royal Affair, might be your ticket. It’s concerned with recreating a few chaotic years in the Danish monarchy, when the young king, Christian VII, who was either an […]
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Long-lost “brothers” in The Other Son
The Other Son opens Friday (see times below) Our rating: It might seem that a foreign filmmaker with a résumé consisting mostly of television comedies wouldn’t be a good fit for a melodrama about the ongoing conflict between the state of Israel and the Palestinian people. And there is a danger of glib superficiality when […]
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Surviving sobriety in Smashed
Smashed opens Friday (see times below) Our rating: A spoiler alert is required for Smashed, a new alcoholism drama. But the spoiler doesn’t involve the plot details of this affecting, if mostly unsurprising film. Rather, it pertains to the radiant actress at the film’s center. She’s tall and makeup-free, sporting frowsy hair, long skirts, cardigan […]
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Manbites Dog celebrates 25 years with a return to where it started
Seventy Scenes of Halloween Manbites Dog Theater Nov. 29–Dec. 15 Open House Dec. 16, 4–8 p.m. On the northeast side of Durham, at the intersection of Club Boulevard and Roxboro Road, there’s a grimy warren of low-end retail establishments. Aside from a friendly neighborhood grocery store and a quality taqueria or two, it’s an unforgiving […]
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Notes on Quail Ridge Books, Galaxy Cinema and a possible defense against Amazon’s Kindle
If there was any doubt about the huge reservoir of good will Nancy Olson has earned over 28 years of owning Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, it evaporated last Wednesday. When word got out that Olson was selling the store, the reaction was swift. While readers expressed shock and concern on social media, […]
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Fanciful, live-action Chicken with Plums doesn’t quite follow up lauded, animated Persepolis
Chicken with Plums opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Chicken with Plums is Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s somewhat surprising follow-up to Persepolis, their internationally lauded 2007 debut. Where Persepolis was an animated tour de force that documented a precocious Iranian girl’s experience of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Chicken with Plums […]
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The Cone sisters and the coming of modernism at the Nasher Museum
Collecting Matisse and & Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore Nasher Museum of Art Through Feb. 10, 2013 “Money creates taste,” according to artist and sloganeer Jenny Holzer. Those inclined to agree will find much to ponder on the Duke campus, where the Nasher Museum of Art is showing the modern art holdings of […]