Articles by Robert Bell

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  The Powerpuff Girls Movie

  Craig McCracken

  PUBLISHED Mar 12, 2013

  Structurally, The Powerpuff Girls Movie takes the route of a traditional superhero origin story, establishing a moral divide between good a...

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  Megamind

  Tom McGrath

  PUBLISHED Mar 12, 2013

  Existential woe is, indirectly, the theme of Tom McGrath's easily digested, mostly inoffensive comedy about duality. The titular Megamind...

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  Dick Tracy

  Warren Beatty

  PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2013

  At the time of its release, Dick Tracy was a huge summer blockbuster complete with fast-food tie-ins and insipid PR stories on Entertainmen...

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  The Intouchables [Blu-Ray]

  Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano

  PUBLISHED Mar 8, 2013

  Just to be clear, commercially accessible and widely acclaimed comic French drama The Intouchables is essentially Scent of a Woman with a q...

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  Shepard & Dark

  Treva Wurmfeld

  PUBLISHED Mar 7, 2013

  Sam Shepard (most visible to the mainstream for his frequent portrayal of sheriffs, cowboys and politicians) was initially a playwright and...

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  Dead Man Down

  Niels Arden Oplev

  PUBLISHED Mar 7, 2013

  If nothing else, Dead Man Down, as directed by Niels Arden Oplev (who helmed the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and written by Fring...

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  Cloudburst

  Thom Fitzgerald

  PUBLISHED Mar 7, 2013

  Elderly lesbians Stella (Olympia Dukakis) and Dot (Brenda Fricker) live in rural Maine, with little interruption or need for external stimu...

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  Neighbouring Sounds

  Kleber Mendonca Filho

  PUBLISHED Mar 7, 2013

  Being one of Brazil's prime business centers, Recife's population has grown exponentially over the years, compressing people into smaller,...