Now this is strange. “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” succeeds in spite of Johnny Depp’s performance, which should have been the high point of…
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In this adaptation of Nicola Yoon’s YA novel, a girl with an immunodeficiency disease has a chaste and grown-up relationship with the boy next…
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( Vulture ) – Adaptations will always be the butter to Hollywood’s bread — hell, the Oscars has its own screenwriting category dedicated to it —…
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Jeff Bridges takes over John Wayne’s eyepatch as the Coens go west for an impressive and Oscar-tipped remake More grit – more truth? The…
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Newcomer Rooney Mara makes a superb Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher’s faithful remake of the gritty Swedish crime thriller Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara…
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“Gone With the Wind” presents a sentimental view of the Civil War, in which the “Old South” takes the place of Camelot and the…
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Hubert Selby Jr’s stream-of-consciousness morality tale is shot through with vitality and colour Hubert Selby Jr: ‘utterly convincing and terrifying on the subject of…
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Among the movies we not only love but treasure, “The Maltese Falcon” stands as a great divide. Consider what was true after its release…