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soulless (Film: Zero Dark Thirty – Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)

What is surprising for this two and a half hours film depicting the search after Bin Laden, the planning and the execution of the action that killed him is how superficial it is in its approach. It may be that … Continue reading

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the meaning of America (Film: ‘Killing Them Softly’ – Brad Pitt, 2012)

Here is one action movie that succeeds in a very original manner to say more about the America of today (or of a few years ago) than many other ‘serious’, ‘social’, ‘politically-engaged’ film. It does it so in a very … Continue reading

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the best Tarantino movie not made by Tarantino (Film: ‘True Romance’ – Tony Scott, 1993)

I believe that there is such a genre called ‘the Tarantino movies’. They have a story which is usually a gangster story, but not necessarily. Men in the story are teenagers or they all have teenagers minds, they are addicted … Continue reading

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