Tagged: marya recommends

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Law of Desire

Pedro Almodóvar delivers a twisted little film full of drama, gay sex, and murder that is likely to entertain anyone while providing an interesting and essential look at his early career.

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Argo

Ben Affleck returns with an extremely well-executed thriller about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis as his third feature.

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Master, The (2012)

Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film is a masterful exploration of two men that features amazing performances from everyone in the cast.

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Eat Pray Love (2010)

Ryan Murphy provides Eat Pray Love with great visuals and scenery, but the film version of Elizabeth Gilbert’s soul-healing journey is boring.

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Robot & Frank

Frank Langella and Susan Sarandon shine in Robot & Frank, an unusual sci-fi-comedy-romance-heist-buddy film.

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ParaNorman

ParaNorman is an excellent 3D stop-motion film from Laika, the same creators of also awesome Coraline.

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Margaret (2011)

Margaret has its masterful moments, but its ambitions to achieve a grand-scale, operatic tale of pure emotion fall flat.

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Beasts of the Southern Wild

Benh Zeitlin’s debut isn’t quite the masterpiece that everyone makes it out to be, but instead a mixed bag of good and bad ideas helped along by solid performances.