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- 'Cake,' starring Jennifer Aniston, could have used more layersThe movie is designed as an Oscar makeover for its star, but it's all too obvious about what it's up to.
- 'Winter Sleep' is a magnificent film that recalls Chekhov and Eugene O'NeillActors聽Haluk Bilginer and聽Melisa S枚zen are peerless as a former actor 鈥 now a landlord 鈥 and his wife living in central Turkey.
- Sundance Film Festival 2015 will include 'Z for Zachariah,' 'Slow West'The Sundance Film Festival was founded by actor Robert Redford 31 years ago. 'The big takeaway I have is the bravery and boldness of our independent film community,' festival director John Cooper said. 'There's a real intensity that is permeating independent filmmaking these days.'
- National Film Registry: What makes a movie influential?The National Film Registry archives America's most influential films. Analysis of how those films are selected could become a model for designing a metric to identify influential scientific research.
- Liam Neeson comments: Must action stars oppose gun control?'Taken 3' star Liam Neeson supports gun control. Is it hypocritical for actors who wield guns on film to oppose them in real life?
- 'The Wedding Ringer' is lazy and only occasionally amusing'The Wedding Ringer' is an odd-couple bromance spiked with gross-out humor of a mostly unimaginative sort.
- 'Blackhat' shows it isn't easy dramatizing cyber intrigue'Blackhat' stars Chris Hemsworth as Nicholas Hathaway, a cyber genius who is tracking down the perpetrator of a malware attack on a Chinese nuclear reactor.
- 'The Humbling' is a marvelous black comedy with deadpan flair'Humbling' stars Al Pacino as a celebrated stage actor for whom acting has become a sham.聽
- 'Avatar' sequel: Here's the new projected release dateThe next 'Avatar' film is now scheduled to be released in 2017, according to director James Cameron. Cameron cited the fact that multiple 'Avatar' films are being planned. 'There's a layer of complexity in getting the story to work as a saga across three films that you don't get when you're making a stand-alone film,' he said.
- American Sniper widow says Bradley Cooper got it right, down to the facial ticAmerican Sniper:聽The wife of a famed Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, says Bradley Cooper accurately portrayed her husband, including his moral struggles.聽
- Golden Globes: George Clooney discusses the awards and other backstage storiesPatricia Arquette shows off some unexpected skills, Jessica Chastain discusses criticism of fact-based films, and more.
- Golden Globes: Will hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler joke about the Sony hack?'Especially in the last couple of months, [they've] been provided with quite some interesting fodder,'聽Hollywood Foreign Press Association President Theo Kingma said of Fey and Poehler's possible joke material. Fey and Poehler are hosting the Globes ceremony on Jan. 11.
- 'Song of the Sea,' an animated feature from Ireland, has transcendent imageryOur critic would put this movie and the film 'The Tale of Princess Kaguya' at the top of a list of the best children's films for all ages.
- 'Two Days, One Night' deftly offers up a microcosm of an entire working-class contingent'Days' stars Marion Cotillard as a woman who is forced to go door-to-door to her fellow employees' houses and ask them to vote to rehire her, losing their bonuses.
- Scarlett Johansson in 'Ghost in the Shell': No Asian actors available?Scarlett Johansson was cast to play聽Commander Motoko Kusanagi in 'Ghost in the Shell." 聽Fans on Twitter wonder why an Asian actor wasn't chosen for the part.聽
- Despite fine acting, 'A Most Violent Year' lacks some punchStars Oscar Issac, Jessica Chastain, and others gamely try to elevate writer-director J.C. Chandor's story about New York's heating oil business of the late 20th century.
- 'Leviathan' goes deep on man versus state in modern RussiaIn 'Leviathan,' everyman Kolya is both a man and the聽yoked soul of Russia fighting for its life in an accusatory universe.聽
- 'The Interview' is a political comedy that's neither political nor funnyIf you think watching gross-out bromance 'The Interview' is your patriotic duty, go right ahead. If you want laughs or savvy, look elsewhere.
- 'Into the Woods,' starring Meryl Streep, stays true to stage versionThis movie musical never degenerates into a false wholesomeness and the large cast is for the most part up to the task, with actors James Corden, Emily Blunt, and Meryl Streep in particular turning in great performances.
- 'Unbroken': Angelina Jolie's direction is too conventional for such a harrowing storyThe story of Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic athlete who is imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp during World War II, is inspirational. But it would have been even more so without making Zamperini an almost saintlike figure.