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  • Movie Review: “World War Z” (Marc Forster, USA/Malta 2013)

    Max Brooks’s novel World War Z is surely the most successful zombie apocalypse novel in history, earning praise for its ability to transform inherently silly subject matter into something not only meaningful but even affecting. It achieved its success through Brooks’s keen understanding of the fact that a zombie apocalypse is essentially a narrative device…

  • Movie Review: “Captain Phillips” (Paul Greengrass, USA 2013)

    Back in 2006, director Paul Greengrass took a break from making mediocre spy films to make United 93 (France/UK/USA), a controversial but truly remarkable film that showed that the filmmaker’s instincts in building tension and allowing it to explode that had served him fairly well in those spy films could actually combine with the emotional…

  • Movie Review: “Now You See Me” (Louis Leterrier, France/USA 2013)

    Are you a fan of magic acts? Heist movies? If you answered, “Yes,” this film will disappoint you. If you answered, “No,” at least you won’t be excited enough going in to be disappointed. In spite of the best efforts of Woody Harrelson to carry the film as its comic relief, it doesn’t work. Nearly…