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The Social Reckoning should not be mistaken for a sequel to The Social Network, despite some obvious synergies. The critically lauded 2010 film focused on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Although Zuckerberg (now played by Jeremy Strong) has a pr...

You know what they say about "too much of a good thing?" That applies to They Will Kill You, the English-language debut of Russian filmmaker Kirill Sokolov, whose hyperkinetic approach to killing Satanic cultists is initially funny, bracing, and t...

Thieves is André Téchiné's followup to his unexpectedly successful 1995 art-house entry, Wild Reeds. In fact, Téchiné drew so much interest for his installment of the French TV series, All the Boys and Girls of the World, that Filmopolis Pict...

I’m tempted to call Together Together a romantic comedy because it has some of the rhythms one commonly associates with the genre. However, that would be mislabeling Nikole Beckwith’s sophomore film. Although there is love and affection in...

Truth, they say, is stranger than fiction… and also potentially more nail-biting and harder to believe. Touching the Void is an extreme example of this - a man versus nature epic so amazing that, if it was presented in a strictly narrative forma...

When it comes to Transformers, I have no ax to grind, pro or con. For me, it's just another loud, plot-deficient summer motion picture. In this case, nostalgia doesn't grip me - I'm too old to have played with the gadgets or watched the cartoon. ...

Call me old fashioned, but I like a little side story and character to go along with my order of big, loud special effects. Apparently, I'm in the minority, though, because the original Transformers made more money than I'd see in 300 lifetimes. ...

I don't have a lot to say about Transporter 2. It's a sequel that outdoes the original in terms of flair and outrageousness, but it will appeal to much the same audience. If James Bond is too tame for you, Frank Martin (Jason Stratham) is your ma...

The Transporter movies remind me of the Bond films of the '70s and '80s, in which each new installment tried to one-up its predecessor in terms of inventive and outrageous action set pieces. Without a doubt, Transporter 3 offers more innovative wa...

At its least, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life is an ambitious slice of cinema by a major filmmaker. Striving for no less than the pinnacle of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Tree of Life falls short of masterful but retains a power ...