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22/31: Birdman
Photo: New Regency Pictures Couch Baron, Blankenship and I discussed the good, the bad, and the flighty about Birdman. Live Blog Flipping The Birdman
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23/31: Out Of The Dark
Screen: Participant Media Scott Speedman is made for horror heroism, isn't he? I didn't care for the Underworlds, but I liked Speedman in/for them. Going back to Felicity, he's projected a likable...
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24/31: The Babadook
Screen: Smoking Gun Prod. A friend of mine once said that you don't get over a death, the space it leaves. "It doesn't go away; you just learn to decorate around it." It's like a ragged hole in the...
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25/31: Selma
Screen: Cloud Eight Films Selma is at its finest in the quietest moments, quiet enough to hear the hearts breaking. Henry G. Sanders isn't onscreen quite long enough as Cager Lee to qualify for a Best...
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26/31: August, Osage County
Photo: Claire Folger / The Weinstein Company I wanted to like August, Osage County more than I did — and I did like it fairly well, considering — because of Tracy Letts. Tracy Letts is pretty much my...
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27/31: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures When a Wes Anderson movie is good, I don't tend to have a whole lot to say about it. Certainly I don't have a lot to say that would convince anyone who finds Anderson's...
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28/31: Croupier
Screen: Channel 4 Films Most contemporary reviews of Croupier point to Clive Owen as the best — almost the only — thing about it, and he's marvelous, but I disagree. It's got a noirish tone that's...
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29/31: Life Partners
Photo: Minerva Productions I would tell you that we've now reached the point in 31 Films In 31 Days when we pick our movies based on how short they are… …but we reached that point at least a week ago....
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30/31: The Imitation Game
Photo: The Weinstein Company "No, not that one, Nana; the other one, with Sherlock." The Imitation Game has teasing flashes of a great movie: Hugh's (Matthew Goode) eloquent "this fucking guy" hand...
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31/31: Beautiful Darling
Photo: JJay Productions Beautiful Darling has a sweet nostalgic sadness to it, like its subject, the former James Slattery who became a Warhol-Factory "Superstar." At first, it seems like it might be...
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