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PETER KEOUGH
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Review: The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012: Documentary
Powerful images
The films in this program contain some of the most powerful images to be seen on the screen this year.
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PETER KEOUGH
| February 10, 2012
Review: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Brad Peyton's sequel
I liked the tiny elephants and the Rock bouncing berries off his pecs, but Brad Peyton's sequel is as bad as the 2008 original.
By:
PETER KEOUGH
| February 07, 2012
Review: Chronicle
Superpowered teens
Poor Andrew (Dane DeHaan) has more problems than any movie teenager deserves.
By:
PETER KEOUGH
| February 02, 2012
Review: One for the Money
Julie Anne Robinson's insipid adaptation
TV director Julie Anne Robinson's insipid adaptation of this first volume in Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series has more in common with Young Adult than with the average gumshoe yarn.
By:
PETER KEOUGH
| January 31, 2012
Review: Big Miracle
Ken Kwapis's take on a true story from 1988
Taking a tip from the oil industry, Hollywood has started exploiting Alaska. Following in the tracks of The Grey is Ken Kwapis's take on a true story from 1988 about an effort to save gray whales trapped in the Arctic ice. Surprisingly, the film offers genuine complexity.
By:
PETER KEOUGH
| January 31, 2012
Review: A Separation
Family drama
Somehow, despite an increasingly repressive regime that has jailed many prominent filmmakers, including the world renowned auteur Jafar Panahi, Iranian cinema continues to produce some of the world's subtlest and most illuminating films about the relationships between men and women, and the conflicts inherent in all social units, starting with the family.
By:
PETER KEOUGH
| January 26, 2012
Review: Crazy Horse
Wiseman behind the scenes at a revered dance institution
In La Danse — The Paris Opera Ballet , Frederick Wiseman looked behind the scenes at a revered dance institution. In his new documentary he examines a dance institution of a different sort, the cabaret bar of the title, a Parisian pop-cultural icon and tourist mecca dedicated to artistically ambitious "nude chic" dancing.
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PETER KEOUGH
| January 24, 2012
Review: Man on a Ledge
Clever if absurd heist film
Pablo F. Fenjves might not be Sidney Lumet, but his clever if absurd heist film does acknowledge its debt to the late, politically inclined director's Dog Day Afternoon .
By:
PETER KEOUGH
| January 26, 2012
Review: Young Goethe in Love
Philipp Stölzl's portrait of the artist as a young scamp
In Philipp Stölzl's fanciful portrait of the artist as a young scamp, the future genius (Alexander Fehling) introduces himself as "Goethe with an 'oe'," earning a reputation as a pratfalling screw-up.
By:
PETER KEOUGH
| January 19, 2012
Review: 2011 Art House Project Shorts Program
Surreal poetry
Short films are the art of omission, and those in this outstanding Sundance program transform non-sequiturs into surreal poetry.
By:
PETER KEOUGH
| January 18, 2012
Interview: Wim Wenders takes 3D one step further
Pina envy
Some are surprised that Wim Wenders, like fellow veteran of the '70s New German Cinema Werner Herzog, has embraced something as newfangled as 3D.
By:
PETER KEOUGH
| January 18, 2012
The Oscars look back in languor in 2011
Golden oldies
This year, perhaps in hopes of diverting audiences with a different format, the Motion Picture Academy has again changed the number of Best Picture nominees.
By:
PETER KEOUGH
| January 18, 2012
Review: The Flowers of War
Unimpressive outing from Zhang Yimou
In 1937 the invading Imperial Japanese Army killed and raped thousands of people in the Chinese city of Nanjing. The atrocity has recently inspired two Chinese films, including Lu Chuan's City of Life and Death and this unimpressive outing from Zhang Yimou.
By:
PETER KEOUGH
| January 17, 2012
Review: Contraband
A high-quality composite of knock-offs
True to its name, this standard heist thriller is a composite of knock-offs, but when Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America is among the sources ripped off, the quality is pretty high.
By:
PETER KEOUGH
| January 17, 2012
Review: The Iron Lady
Streep's not enough to save this one
Meryl Streep's two films with Phyllida Lloyd, Mamma Mia and this silly biopic, demonstrate that even when the world's greatest actress is at the peak of her powers — whether dramatic, comic, or musical — it's not enough.
By:
PETER KEOUGH
| January 10, 2012
Review: Carnage
Claustrophobic close encounters
As befits someone with jail time hanging over his head, Roman Polanski does his best work in close quarters. From Knife in the Water , to Repulsion , to The Tenant and The Pianist , he's a master of claustrophobic close encounters, and as such has a good time adapting Yasmin Reza's play, God of Carnage .
By:
PETER KEOUGH
| January 10, 2012
Review: Dreileben
TV trilogy from three German directors
Taking a cue from Kieslowski's Three Colors by way of the British Red Riding series, this TV trilogy from three German directors of the Berlin School starts out with a creepy aura of dread and mystery and ends with contrived and unsatisfying resolutions.
By:
PETER KEOUGH
| January 10, 2012
Review: Pariah
Dee Rees's first feature
Compared to the non-stop trauma of Precious , or even Gun Hill Road , Dee Rees's first feature plays like an episode of The Cosby Show .
By:
PETER KEOUGH
| January 03, 2012
Hollywood offers botched operations and altered lives in 2012
Change of plans
Those who got a thrill last spring when the SEALS took out Osama bin Laden will have more of the same covert ass-kicking to look forward to in theaters as we enter 2012.
By:
PETER KEOUGH
| December 28, 2011
The best films of 2011 are not the ballyhooed
Also-rans
The films this year were kind of like the current field of Republican presidential candidates: some are entertaining, but there's no clear frontrunner, and there's more attention on the flashiest and least substantial than on the more thoughtful and genuine.
By:
PETER KEOUGH
| December 21, 2011
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