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Feb 6

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Midnight in Paris

Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris is a delightful piece of comic fantasy. It is, at times, hysterical and touching, a warm ode to a city and a lifestyle of romance, literature, art, sex, and, above all else, love. Allen’s 41st film brims with all of the brightness of his best work, containing thoughts about his legacy and his passion in the midst of a story that is brilliantly funny and warm to the touch.

You can check out the rest of this review at Midnight in Paris Movie Review: A Beautiful Fantasy at Cinema Sentries.

Dec 24

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Love Actually

Love Actually is one of those movies that I’ll throw in when I need an assured boost. The Richard Curtis picture is a favourite of mine because of its barefaced production and lack of guilt. It is a romantic comedy that knows exactly what it’s doing, cruising cheerfully through several stories about love in countless forms.

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Dec 18

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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1

When aliens land on this planet to finally take over, one of the things we’ll have to explain will be the Twilight series. Stephenie Meyer’s curious series of novels about Mormon vampires has been a hit, spawning the requisite film series that has also been a hit. The final book in the series, Breaking Dawn, finds itself divided in two for the final two films in the series.

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Dec 3

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Beginners

Mike Mills’ Beginners has a heart, probably, but it’s so submerged in paint-by-numbers hipsterism and lumbering mumblecore that it’s difficult to find the humanity. The problem is that there are good performances in this film, especially Christopher Plummer’s, but the characters are ancillary to Mills’ ticking off of hipster boxes.

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Nov 13

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Crazy, Stupid, Love.

I have lamented the dearth of good romantic comedies for a long time now, with nearly every single recent picture in the genre turning into a woman-hating ordeal packed with clichés and joyless interaction. Enter Crazy, Stupid, Love. Finally, an exception to what is sadly becoming a rule.

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