Category: Drama

Oscar Countdown 2013 – Argo (2012)

February 18, 2013
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This is the second of ten Oscar Countdown posts from Zuzana Urbanek, where she reviews the Best Picture nominees, and gives her own predictions on who will win. Argo: A Tense, Heroic Film … the Way They Used to Make ’em Runtime: 120 minutes Director: Ben Affleck [This review was previously published in Z’s Blog on…

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Oscar Countdown 2013 – Amour (2012)

February 18, 2013
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Cinefessions is proud to present its second guest writer of the year: Zuzana Urbanek. Zuzana is a professional author and film connoisseur. She has been a regular reader of Cinefessions over the years, and we are excited to be able to showcase her thoughtful and intelligent film criticism on Cinefessions. I urge you to check…

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Movie Review – Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)

February 9, 2013
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Title: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer Runtime: 83 minutes Director: John McNaughton — This is the first time I’ve seen this film from start to finish, and I won’t soon forget it. It’s far from perfect – the acting outside the three leads is questionable at best – but the script is actually smarter…

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Movie Review – Compliance (2012)

February 8, 2013
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Title: Compliance (2012) Runtime: 90 minutes Director: Craig Zobel — Compliance is a film that you might want to turn off at multiple points, finding it too ridiculous and unbelievable to work. That was the case with me. There comes a point in the movie where it just gets too much. I literally laughed out…

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Movie Review – Antichrist (2009)

November 8, 2012
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Title: Antichrist (2009) Runtime: 108 minutes Director: Lars von Trier — There’s pre-Antichrist and post-Antichrist life, and everything I do from here on out can be considered post-Antichrist. This is – hyperbole aside – the most difficult movie I’ve ever sat through, and I’ve watched both The Life and Death of a Porno Gang and…

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Blu-ray Review – La haine (Criterion Collection)

July 11, 2012
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(Originally written for Inside Pulse Movies) La haine, which translates to “hate” in English, is a perfect title for Mathieu Kassovitz’s film, which revolves entirely around the hatred that brews between the teenagers in France’s projects, and the corrupt police officers that attempt to control them. Everything that happens in the first two acts leads…

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Movie Review – Newlyweds (2012)

May 23, 2012
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Title– Newlyweds (2012) Running Time– 96 minutes (“NR”) Director– Edward Burns — (Originally an IP Movies Review) A couple of months ago I was reading an article in MovieMaker magazine about a writer/director named Edward Burns who made his latest feature on a practically non-existent budget of $9,000. He paid his actors a small sum, had them…

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