The real question is whether there’s any difference."
A true nightmare movie, though, does more than just scare us or give us the cold creeps.
And Anthony Hopkins' Dr. Lecter is that face in all its disturbing, seductive glory.
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Yet it’s his instincts as an artist that makePulp Fictiontake up permanent residence in your imagination.
InPulp Fiction, what Tarantino has resurrected is the primal joy of American moviemaking."
And Anthony Hopkins, in a towering performance, puts us right inside Nixon’s skin.
For Bess, love and religious fervor are inseparable.
She doesn’t take action so much as she simply believes.
Anderson embodies that ecstatic, shoot-the-works spirit in the gleeful freedom of his filmmaking.
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Few of us moved, or even spoke.
We were too thunderstruck.
It haunts the soldiers' every breath.
The final battle is wrenching in a less existential, more clear-eyed way.
No one makes a movie like that without inviting people to call it “creepy.”
The filmmaker will always be there to catch you when you fall."
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And in such a kingdom,The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ringrules.
Tolkien’s towering fantasy trilogyThe Lord of the Rings, the text on which the film is built.
As its own universe, Fellowship is complete and enchanting.
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“Thriller is a word that long ago lost its thrill.
The audience clutches right along with him.
In a word, thrilling.”
Haynes embraces the fakery of old Hollywood, but he loves its sincerity, too.
“Don’t dillydally!”
It’s why we feel we too have alighted from a transforming journey at the trilogy’s end.
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And why we’ll keep coming back to reexperience the voyage."
Owen Gleiberman
Sideways (2004)
OWENI guess it had to happen sooner or later, Lisa.
LISAI know initially I thought, how unimaginative of us, and then I thought, how persuasive ofSideways.
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OWENI feel like the film chose me more than I chose it.
OWENThere’s a lovely simplicity about it.
As rich as it is, the movie is effortless.
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LISATwo good words there: “effortless” and “humane.”
OWENYou mean because so many critics look like Paul Giamatti?
LISAAnd pine for Virginia Madsen.
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There’s an extraordinary subtlety to the movie that isn’t always talked about.
LISAWell, to clarify your clarification, no one’s talking about refuge here.
(Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
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and that sometimes the finest filmmaking is also the simplest.
It was impossible to do justice to so big and complicated a story otherwise, he said.
(As a cultural shape-shifter, he paled next to the Beatles, David Bowie, or Madonna.)
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I call it the most originally enchanting movie of the year and, just maybe, a new classic.
For that, there’s the television, the Internet, and the tweet.
Lisa Schwarzbaum likes this."
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scenes set in God forbid the afterlife!)
that the whole debate, in many ways, has overshadowed the stirring intimacy of Malick’s achievement.
True, not every Hollywood drama opens with a 17-minute sequence depicting the formation of the earth.
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We see the characters, through Malick’s God’s-eye-view camera, as touchingly vulnerable creatures.
Which is then distilled into the fact-based story of one of them, an obsessed CIA analyst.
(It so happens she’s a woman.)
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There’s not a moment wasted, and not a scene without a purpose.
Yet the film balances despair and perseverance, pain and transcendence.
As such, it is a true reckoning with history.
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But Chazelle has more on his mind than 106 minutes of bebop, bleeding palms, and bluster.
Whiplash is a film that electrifies you with its live-wire beat."
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