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Review: Anderson rediscovers balance in `Kingdom'
May. 21, 2012 7:44 PM ET (AP)
The contradiction inherent to all Wes Anderson films _ the juxtaposition of the meticulous artificiality of the settings and the passionately wistful emotions that are longing to burst free _ is at...
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In 'Moonrise Kingdom,' Wes Anderson relocates
May. 18, 2012 8:56 AM ET (AP)
In Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," the famously meticulous director takes his fastidiously fashioned world and flings it into the woods.
Even a relatively loose Anderson film is more ornately...
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Cannes opens with Anderson's 'Moonrise,' camel
May. 16, 2012 7:38 PM ET (AP)
Wes Anderson opened the 65th Cannes Film Festival with his meticulously composed ode to young love, "Moonrise Kingdom," while less mannered theatrics surrounded the annual French Riviera extravaganza....
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Review: `Battleship' loud, dumb but stays afloat
May. 15, 2012 6:21 PM ET (AP)
"Battleship" is big, dumb fun that knows it's big, dumb fun and enthusiastically embraces its big, dumb, fun nature.
Director Peter Berg has crafted an almost fetishistic homage to Michael Bay _ like...
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Review: 'Hysteria' has a few oohs, aahs, no Big O
May. 15, 2012 9:29 AM ET (AP)
Like the inventors of the vibrator it depicts, "Hysteria" really aims to please. And like an inattentive lover displaced by the sexual aid, the film never quite satisfies.
True to the title, there are...