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September 28, 2010
Coming Home: Melodrama and social change
David Ehrenstein condemns melodramas like Coming Home for perpetuating the illusion that they can affect social change instead of creating real change.
April 19, 2010
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, 2003)
Mystic River works because it’s never bogged down by any flashy camera movement. light theatrics or editing experimentation.
January 26, 2011
The Man From Nowhere (Lee Jeong-beom, 2010)
In The Man from Nowhere, after a neighbour's daughter is abducted by drug dealers, Tae-shik will stop at nothing to save her.
March 26, 2010
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
There Will Be Blood methodically depicts the rise of its fictional character, from his modest entrepreneurial beginnings to rich oil mogul.
November 28, 2010
The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971)
Legend goes that The Devils was considered so extreme in its time that it was banned in North America and never distributed on home video here.
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