Articles by Robert Bell

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  The Better Angels

  A.J. Edwards

  PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2014

  That The Better Angels was directed by Terrence Malick's protégé, A.J. Edwards, is not surprising based on its look, its tone and its theme...

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  Jersey Boys [Blu-ray]

  Clint Eastwood

  PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2014

  On the "From Broadway to the Big Screen" featurette included with the Blu-ray release of Jersey Boys, there are some brief discussions abou...

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  The Theory of Everything

  James Marsh

  PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2014

  The Theory of Everything, James Marsh's adaptation of Jane Hawking's memoir, Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, mostly evades th...

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  The Boy Who Smells Like Fish

  Analeine Cal y Mayor

  PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2014

  Rest assured, Analeine Cal y Mayor's The Boy Who Smells Like Fish is not a porn. Instead, it's a very mediocre, awkwardly idiosyncratic fab...

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  Young Ones

  Jake Paltrow

  PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2014

  Jake Paltrow's sophomore feature, Young Ones, is a dusty stoic western with a sci-fi embellishment that underlines the fleeting nature of t...

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  Before I Go to Sleep

  Rowan Joffe

  PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2014

  The narrative conceit of Rowan Joffe's sophomore feature, Before I Go to Sleep, is remarkably similar to that of Christopher Nolan's cult h...

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  Cannibal

  Manuel Martin Cuenca

  PUBLISHED Oct 20, 2014

  Manuel Martin Cuenca's Cannibal opens with the same sort of ritualistic exactitude that his titular carnivore protagonist demonstrates with...

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  These Final Hours

  Zak Hilditch

  PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2014

  Though all films are, in their own way, a reflection of their surrounding culture, there's something specifically hyperbolic about those th...