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'At Any Price': Fathers, Sons, and Girlfriends

If At Any Price is generally distracted by its father-son business, the women who help to shape and also resist that business provide alternative views.

                                      
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If At Any Price is generally distracted by its father-son business, the women who help to shape and also resist that business provide alternative views.

Again and again, Ernie (Rob Brown) faces down racist thug defenders, his singular prowess signaled by the film's slow motion and big music.

What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

It’s almost rather brilliant the way the film betrays and sabotages itself as it comes down the home stretch.

Smart People is determined to showcase familial quirk in multiple dimensions.

As Vantage Point becomes increasingly busy with personal betrayals and redemptions, the ostensible politics, reductive to begin with, fall by the wayside.

Here's the rub: does it matter that consumers know all about the badness and the cynical ambition, but watch anyway?

Much like John Moore's Behind Enemy Lines, Phoenix splices together traditional and current action movie clichés and rhythms.

In Good Company pushes Carter and Dan up against one another, so that they can work through their mutual anxieties, resentments, and jealousies.

Most remarkably, after what looks like weeks in the desert sun, no one ever gets a sunburn.

Even as it lays down a scary geopolitical scenario and a few partisan gauntlets, The Day After Tomorrow aims to please.

'A lot of people who have seen this movie are surprised that we have depicted these people warts and all,' says historian Stephen L. Hardin.

As the 'eye of the storm' speeds across the screen, instantly freezing everything in its path, Jack looks up to see a flag, turned spastically solid in a second. Here it is, the money shot: the emblematic United States, stuck in time, blind to consequences, fixated on its own reckless self-love.

Standing on a rooftop at the Alamo, the apparently valiant and suddenly insightful Davy Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton) pulls out his fiddle.

At the end of the day, the truth can never compete with a good story.

For Haynes, much of this surface is simultaneously supple and precise, 'girly-swirly,' as he terms it.

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The conflicts are familiar, but 'The Rookie' presents them admirably and resolves them without sap overload.