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Tag: Movies
The Strawberry Criterion: The Purge: Anarchy
The high concept at the center of The Purge: Anarchy and its predecessor should make for better drivel than this, but it very definitely doesn’t, and again these are movies whose lofty ideas nosedive in execution to […]
2014.5 Top Five Lists With Zero Explanations
Top 5 Movies of 2014 So Far 1. The Grand Budapest Hotel 2. The Lego Movie 3. Obvious Child 4. Edge of Tomorrow 5. Under the Skin Top 5 TV Shows of 2014 So Far […]
A Preemptive Review of the Seth MacFarlane Cowboy Movie
Editor’s Note: I have not seen the Seth MacFarlane cowboy movie, A Million Ways to Die in the West, and I don’t intend to, ever. With that said, I must acknowledge the unfortunate fact that […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Editor’s Note: In preparation for this review, I saw The Grand Budapest Hotel twice. I did this neither out of adoration nor frustration, but out of functional necessity. See, I fell asleep around midway through […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Cloud Atlas
In the fraught relationship between film and literature, few events are rarer than a film adaptation that qualitatively surpasses its source material. Now, note the use of “literature” in the preceding sentence, as the bond […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Master
Cliche upholds that the human mind is “an excellent servant, but a terrible master.” In The Master, his first film since 2007’s redoubtable There Will Be Blood, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson seeks to dramatize his and our ancient […]
