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August: Osage County
Meryl Streep gives yet another tour-de-force performance as the matrarch of one of the most screwed-up extended families to grace the screen in years.
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The Past
Asgar Farhadi is back with another examination of everything that surrounds a divorce, and once again it could result in his taking home some coveted hardware.
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Inside Llewyn Davis
The latest Coen Brothers film is not their best, but it is much closer to it than it is to their worst. Considering that their worst isn’t bad at all, you are safe in assuming that it’s definitely worth a view.
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Nebraska
Director Alexander Payne almost attains the heights of "Sideways", and Bruce Dern may have the role of his lifetime.
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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela is portrayed as more than human, yet a brilliant performance by Idris Elba and fine direction from Justin Chadwick overcomes whatever other shortcomings there are.
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Philomena
Judi Dench portrays an elderly woman who had her child taken from her fifty years earlier. She wants to know whatever happened to him, but it is not a quest filled with bitterness, and that is part of why this works.
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Delivery Man
Vince Vaughn’s latest moves him from goofy comedy to goofy feel-good comedy with light messaging included at no extra cost.
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Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
Bob Guccione takes his place on the big screen alongside Hef and Larry Flynt, and it’s oddly un-salacious.
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12 Years a Slave
As brutal and raw a depiction of slavery as has ever been put on film. That doesn’t, however, make it a great film.
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Don Jon
Joseph Gordon-Levitt lands a solid right cross in his directorial debut. The action is fast, furious, and very funny.
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