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Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty Is an Adventure Story Consumed by the Fog of War
The reason for all of the uneasy reactions to Bigelow’s new movie is that while Zero Dark Thirty appears in the form of an exciting Hollywood movie about search and capture of Osama bin Laden, it is equally a challenging critique.
By Peter Simek
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Not Fade Away’s Journey Through 1960s Music is Intensely Personal—to a Fault
David Chase’s Not Fade Away is a nostalgia trip of such a specific nature that it’s unlikely to resonate much with anyone who wasn’t in high school or college in the suburbs of the New York metropolitan area during the mid-1960s, spending countless hours listening to the music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Best known as the creator of the acclaimed television series The Sopranos, Chase tells here a semi-autobiographical story of a garage band that never made it big. A group of a friends in a middle-class New Jersey town in 1964 see the way the girls swoon for the Fab Four and Mick Jagger and decide to pool their limited talents.
By Jason Heid
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Movie Review: The Impossible Manages to Make the Incredible Feel Perfunctory
Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Impossible, about a family hit by the brunt of the tsunami that devastated Southeast Asia in 2004, is a dramatized account, and not quite a movie.
By Peter Simek