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In NYPress, I write that Tommy Lee Jones' Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a suitable Peckinpah tribute if you haven't seen a Peckinpah movie recently. Jennifer Merin talks to Steven Soderbergh...
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Oscar 2008 Winner Predictions: Actor
Yes, we know Daniel Day-Lewis has this one in the bag, but in the interest of keeping this entry longer than any of There Will Be Blood's histrionic one-liners, we shouldn't discount a possible upset...
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15 Famous Fights to the Death
Nearly two dozen teens bite the big one in The Hunger Games, sure to be cinema's most popular source of adolescent bloodshed. There's no darker vicarious thrill than watching someone perish on screen,...
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Oscar Prospects: Beasts of the Southern Wild
[Editor's Note: Oscar Prospects is your weekly analysis of an awards contender and how it's likely to fare come Oscar nomination morning. The column is comprehensive, so beware of spoilers.] Will the...
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Oscar Prospects: Lincoln
[Editor's Note: Oscar Prospects is your weekly analysis of an awards contender and how it's likely to fare come Oscar nomination morning. The column is comprehensive, so beware of spoilers.] Though it...
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Oscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Supporting Actor
With all due respect to the gentlemen in contention, this year's likely Supporting Actor crop has shaped up to be a snooze, filled with veterans who, however gifted, feel like obvious choices, and...
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Oscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Supporting Actor
All right, all right, all right. We should've known. As it turned out, Matthew McConaughey's still supple ass cheeks in Magic Mike were no match for AMPAS's preference for saggy old balls in this...
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15 Famous Movie Emperors
This weekend, Tommy Lee Jones and Matthew Fox team up in Peter Webber's Emperor, a rather listless historical war flick, which charts the investigation of Emperor Hirohito and his role in WWII. The...
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