In Paul Thomas Anderson's epic, oil is thicker than 'Blood'
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'There Will Be Blood,' a story about the rise and fall of a robber baron, isn't the year's best film. But it's certainly the strangest â and compelling, at that.
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The career of Paul Thomas Anderson, whose first four features will be screened this weekend at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, is on the minds of cinephiles with the arrival of his fifth movie, âThere Will Be Blood.â
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Religion isnât easy, but itâs rarely looked tougher than it does in this intimate and disturbing film.
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Floating on the success of offbeat domestic comedy "The Royal Tenenbaums," director Wes Anderson set out to make an epic about adventure on the high seas. But some critics are already predicting a shipwreck.
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A new documentary examines the wild claims about the life of Jesus Christ and Leonardo da Vinci that have helped make Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code a best-selling page-turner.
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His rags to riches story is the stuff of legend, while his personal life could well be the script of an ancient Greek tragedy.
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The filmmaker compared U.S. troop deployment in Iraq to the kind of human sacrifice depicted in his new film.
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COM Zhang Yimou channels Akira Kurosawa in Hero, which is even more visually stunning than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Like Kurosawa&#39;s Ran, it features huge armies with
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Wes Andersonâs main characters share with him a passion for collecting rare objects and unusual experiences, all of which they handle with exquisite, jealous care.
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The movie is more of an intellectual exercise than an emotionally resonant experience.
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Paul Haggis' new movie looks at how war changes the people who fight it and the world we live in
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Period oil drama There Will Be Blood is named movie of the year by the US National Society of Film Critics.
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The current of intellectual energy snapping through the ferociously engaging screen adaptation of Alan BennettÂs Tony Award-winning play feels like electrical brain stimulation.
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Battling fires and rescuing people, though fascinating to behold, doesn&#39;t necessarily make for compelling drama. The challenge is telling a story that&#39;s true to the episodic nature of firefighting, yet not
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Fahrenheit 9/11 is astounding. Not as much as a film - although it is cunning and moving â-ut as an event. What makes it an event is the fact that it is an effective and independent intervention into immediate world politics.
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Director Zhang Yimou presents a grand saga of ancient China with &quot;Hero&quot; -- a briskly paced, cleverly plotted martial arts epic that unfolds through a circuitous series of flashbacks.
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Alexandra Pelosi used the now-disgraced preacher as her guide for a documentary on evangelicals. It offers plenty of irony, but also an incisive look at an alternative cultural world