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Do an A-List Director, Writer, and Cast Make The Counselor a Top-Notch Thriller?

Film dialogue needn’t be “realistic” to work. Think of the distinct patter of an Aaron Sorkin script or the staccato back-and-forth of two David Mamet characters. Both sing their own kind of music, while neither resemble something you’re likely to overhear in daily life. And yet it’s the dialogue — too often too slick and speechifying — that I most fault for making director Ridley Scott’s The Counselor merely a good rather than a great film. Everybody talks like a philosopher. Drug lords, jewelers, waste disposal workers, proprietors of rundown restaurants, in the world according to first-time screenwriter (and acclaimed novelist) Cormac McCarthy, all are full of wit and wisdom regarding man’s place in this ugly and desperate world.
By Jason Heid
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Movie Review: Cut Adrift Without a Cast, Robert Redford’s Solo Performance In All Is Lost Is Superb

What does it say about the cultural zeitgeist that this Fall we get not one, but two films about individuals floating out in an unfathomable abyss, struggling for survival in a cruel, unforgiving cosmos?
By Peter Simek
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Movie Review: What Fuels Steve McQueen’s Raw, Honest, and Brilliant New Film, 12 Years a Slave?

Steve McQueen's charged and difficult adaptation of a memoir by a freeman kidnapped and sold into slavery in the 1840s offers timeless insight into the nature of justice, freedom, and suffering.
By Peter Simek
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