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27/31: The Grand Budapest Hotel
January 27, 2015 – 9:06 AM | 6 Comments
27/31: <em>The Grand Budapest Hotel</em>

When a Wes Anderson movie is good, I don’t tend to have a whole lot to say about it.

8/31: Beginners
December 8, 2011 – 3:24 PM | 5 Comments
8/31: <I>Beginners</I>

Watching a lot of movies in a row can scramble the brain, but it can also let those movies reflect on and inform one another. For example, the Oscars Death Race is a time of …

The Live-Action Shorts 2011
February 23, 2011 – 9:02 AM | 5 Comments
The Live-Action Shorts 2011

A more entertaining, less self-serious crop than last year’s, or at least I felt that way when the lights when up Monday. It helps that the program chose its order well, and ended with a …

Fantastic Mr. Fox
February 27, 2010 – 10:31 AM | 11 Comments

It’s about what you’d expect from a Wes Anderson movie, in animated form: if you find his work twee, you’ll hate it, and if you like its offbeat charm, you’ll enjoy it.
It tries a little …