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Ginger & Rosa looks at two girls coming of age in the most tumultuous of times.
Identity Thief explores just how far one joke can go.
Take Shelter is an exceptional look at our precarious state of mental health — I think.
Inescapable strives to make a thriller, but is really just monotonous.
David O. Russell’s look at coping with mental health issues in a binary culture.
A bunch of little Patty Hearsts tell stories in the attic as their parents drink and cheat downstairs.
The Impossible is at once emotionally riveting and confusing.
Christopher Walken and Al Pacino are perfectly cast as Doc and Val, respectively. On screen, both actors have embraced their caricaturized selves, distancing our recognition of them as Michael Corleone or Nick from Deer Hunter fame.
Audiard constructs a sonically primal world, in which the characters live out the primary theme: men are beasts and women tame the beast – although, in the end, the film seems to say that the most pleasing specimens have a little of both the beast and the tamer in them