happythankyoumoreplease opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: happythankyoumoreplease takes place in a superficially recognizable but lifeless version of Manhattan’s East Village. Its treatment of the city is full of distractingly dissonant moments, like a Union Square Park where you can play catch, summer days that would allow one to wear more […]
Nathan Gelgud
Bio: N.C. State graduate Nathan Gelgud lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and writes about film. He also does film-inspired illustrations.Twitter: http://twitter.com/gelgud
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Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre disappoints
Jane Eyre opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: In the 27th filmed adaptation of Jane Eyre (why not, right?), you can find everything you would expect to find: trees rustle, damp moors are crossed, wooded pathways are traversed, bonnets are worn, fireplaces burn, wicked schoolmarms are wicked and Judi Dench is […]
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Sofia Coppola’s Hollywood movie Somewhere strips the glamour
Somewhere opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Sofia Coppola, who comes from Hollywood royalty, has made films set in suburbia, Japan and 18th-century France. With her new film, Somewhere, she’s finally made a movie about Hollywood that takes place in Hollywood. But her techniquelong takes, often wordless, sometimes with an obstinately […]
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Middle-class despair in Mike Leigh’s latest, Another Year
Another Year opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: At the center of Another Year is a couple with an idyllic lifestyle. Around them swirls a small but fierce storm of desperate people whose lives have gone the wrong direction, who drink way too much and for whom writer-director Mike Leigh provides […]
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Rabbit Hole explores the grieving process
Rabbit Hole opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: It takes a lot to faze any woman who can whip up a spontaneous crème brûlée breakfast using the same amount of energy that most people require to pour milk over a bowl of cereal. And while Becca maintains an air of perfection […]
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A West African colonial nightmare in White Material
White Material opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: In White Material, the latest from French master Claire Denis, the fantasy of colonialism confronts the nightmare of armed rebellion. Helicopters kick up swarms of red dust that give way to clouds of black smoke. Handheld radios broadcast the mouthpiece of the revolution, […]
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A docudrama of a notorious unsolved murder in America in All Good Things
All Good Things opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: All Good Things, directed by Andrew Jarecki, stars Ryan Gosling as David Marks, an only slightly fictionalized version of a real-life millionaire named Robert A. Durst, who is suspected of murdering his wife, who disappeared in 1982. David is the son of […]
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Some of the year’s best didn’t make it to Triangle theaters, but does it matter?
Not too many years ago, around the turn of the century, being a movie lover in the Triangle was often frustrating. Area theaters couldn’t always get the films that were being written about in Film Comment and Cinemascope, and waiting for video releases was iffy at best. Would the local video store get the good […]
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The constricted worldview of Tiny Furniture
Joe Anderson/ IFCLena Dunham (left) as Aura and Jemima Kirke as Charlotte Tiny FurnitureTwo starsOpens Friday at Colony Theater In her debut feature, Tiny Furniture, writer-director-star Lena Dunham plays Aura, a recent college graduate (from a college in Ohio, presumably Oberlin, where Dunham went) who moves back into the huge Tribeca loft of her successful […]
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The latest of Woody Allen’s Light, Somewhat Entertaining, Late-Period Comedies!
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: What do you have when a struggling writer, a beautiful gallery assistant, a high-class hooker, a wealthy man in overdue mid-life crisis and a phony psychic are portrayed by a set of A-list actors flitting about in artsy, […]