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Cannes Films Focus on Transition, but Many Seem Stalled

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Cannes, France — Every film festival presents the temptation to find an overarching theme, even if a filmgoer has to stand on her tippy-toes to find it. But even to the most jaded, this year’s Cannes Film Festival presented undeniable links, not just between the films being shown in and out of competition, but between what was happening on and off screen. No sooner had The Great Gatsby - Baz …

This film publicity image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Bradley Cooper as Phil, left, Zach Galifianakis as Alan, center, and Ed Hlems as Stu in a scene from "The Hangover Part III." (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures)

The Party’s Over in This ‘Hangover’

Saturday, May 25, 2013

After The Hangover Part II, more than one critic took filmmaker Todd Phillips to task for too slavishly following the first movie’s winning formula, ingredient for ingredient. For a story so heavily dependent on the element of surprise — both ours and that of the characters — why couldn’t he manage to nudge …

‘Epic’: A World’s Huge Problems

Saturday, May 25, 2013

In calling itself Epic the new CGI adventure based on children’s author and illustrator William Joyce’s The Leaf Men might be guilty of overselling itself, just a bit. Yes, the movie is certainly more swollen in scope and tone than Joyce’s eco-themed picture book on which it’s (very loosely) based. That 2001 story of the secret, teeming life of a garden had a …

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