Articles by Robert Bell

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  Les Misérables [Blu-Ray]

  Tom Hooper

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2013

  Generally speaking, filmed musicals tend to work better in a comedic or romantic context, being exaggerated and melodramatic by sheer virtu...

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  The Face of Another

  Hiroshi Teshigahara

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2013

  While a plot, central characters and a general application of narrative structure—premise, building blocks, application of didactic a...

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  Monsters Vs. Aliens

  Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2013

  In premise, Monsters Vs. Aliens has some intriguing thematic material to play with: when aliens land on the planet Earth and invade, the go...

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  Greedy Lying Bastards

  Craig Scott Rosebraugh

  PUBLISHED Mar 14, 2013

  In case the title, Greedy Lying Bastards, wasn't clear enough, Craig Scott Rosebraugh's documentary about climate change and the oil compan...

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  No

  Pablo Larrain

  PUBLISHED Mar 14, 2013

  Completing his trilogy on the 17-year presidential regime of Augusto Pinochet, Chilean director Pablo Larrain's No explores the 1988 plebis...

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  Lore

  Cate Shortland

  PUBLISHED Mar 14, 2013

  Having demonstrated a knack for capturing the conflicting feelings of a young woman stuck between childhood fantasy and the responsibilitie...

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  Leviathan

  Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel

  PUBLISHED Mar 14, 2013

  Like the works of Nikolaus Geyrhalter or, to a lesser degree, Godfrey Reggio, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel's Leviathan is stru...

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  The Call

  Brad Anderson

  PUBLISHED Mar 14, 2013

  Knowing very well that the premise unto itself is ludicrous — 911 operator Jordan Turner (Halle Berry) battles inner-demons to hunt d...