For a war movie that includes little action, Eye in the Sky (2015) is a nail-biter and a question-raiser that leaves you utterly enraged at the world in general.
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At first glance, “Love & Mercy” (2015) seems to be a biopic of the life of Brian Wilson, founder of the Beach Boys, but the film is much more than that: it’s a story of genius, trauma, and music.
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To celebrate The Academy Awards’ history of Oscar Rejects, here are reviews of a few of those films left standing with their golden statues and those who must humbly step to the side.
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Jeff Nichols’s “Mud” (2012) may as well be called “Love” for how interchangeably murky and ugly the film seems to present the two concepts. It is so easy when it comes to love to be sloppily sentimental and trivial, as is evident by many a rom-com as well as by how dangerously close even this film gets to that. And yet love remains one of our most powerful driving forces and precious aspirations as well as complicated and painful enigmas. What makes “Mud” a perhaps more compelling account is that it is not a love story but rather a story about love in its various profound and less-than-pretty forms.
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Film Columnist Elizabeth Lee '16 reviews "The Attack"
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