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Django Unchained (C), 

The Master (B+), Silver Linings Playbook (B-), Searching for Sugar Man (C+), Zero Dark Thirty (B+) and...

Posted by: GalacticPothealer on Feb 04, 14:31 in response to tealfan's post So Who Saw What Last Week?...hansel & gretel...

Zero Dark Thirty (2012, B+) Bigelow adds female intuition & tenacity to a male, monomaniacal manhunt. The result is doleful, not triumphant.

Searching for Sugar Man (2012, C+): This charming but lightweight doc has a captivating protagonist, but the quest itself is rather flimsy.

La belle et la bĂŞte (1946, C): Philip Glass adds a misguided score with hilarious lip-sync lyrics, turning Cocteau's surrealism into camp.

Silver Linings Playbook (2012, B-) This ironic indie questions, then succumbs to, our self-delusions & compulsive search for happy endings.

The Master (2012, B+) Sects and sex, alcohol, consumerism & power are addictive states of consciousness in this intangible character study.

Deliverance (1972, A) A river's romantic lure turns sour in Boorman's superbly staged thriller. An ambiguous clash of nature & human nature.

Django Unchained (2012, C) Tarantino retreads vigilante westerns but their guilty pleasures are lost in his protracted, mannerist imitation.





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