Articles by Robert Bell

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  The Spectacular Now

  James Ponsoldt

  PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2013

  Sutter Keely (Miles Teller) is always the life of the party. Making the most of every moment without thinking about the consequences, he co...

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  Lee Daniels’ The Butler

  Lee Daniels

  PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2013

  As presented, Lee Daniels' star-studded, multi-generational epic of truncated American Civil Rights history, The Butler, is an easily inter...

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  Cohen & Tate [Blu-Ray]

  Eric Red

  PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2013

  As was the standard for genre cinema in the late '80s, Cohen & Tate posits a family in crisis. Pre-teen Travis Knight (Harley Cross) witnes...

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  To the Wonder [Blu-Ray]

  Terrence Malick

  PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2013

  As outlined in the brief "Making of" supplement included with the Blu-Ray of Terrence Malick's latest phenomenological exploration of an ex...

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  The Paperboy [Blu-Ray]

  Lee Daniels

  PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2013

  Lee Daniels' adaptation of Pete Dexter's sleepy Southern gothic novel, The Paperboy, is many things: social satire; pulpy throwback; noir m...

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  The Ice Storm [Blu-ray]

  Ang Lee

  PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2013

  Ten years after the assassination of JFK when Richard Nixon could be heard on televisions around America assertion that he was not a crook,...

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  The Lovers on the Bridge

  Leos Carax

  PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2013

  The Lovers on the Bridge, Leos Carax's final instalment in the "l'amour fou" (or "Alex"), trilogy, is, like its predecessor Mauvais Sang, a...

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  Boy Meets Girl

  Leos Carax

  PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2013

  When Leos Carax shot Boy Meets Girl, his first feature film, he was in his early 20s. His youthful whimsy and corresponding pretense are a...