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Youth In Revolt (Miguel Arteta, 2010)
BY: Wesley Hill
Based on the irreverent coming-of-age novel by C. D. Payne, Youth in Revolt and directed by Miguel Arteta, doesn’t begin there—with the revolt. Instead it starts benignly, in the bedroom retreat of a teen who knows he’s a misfit. Literate, introverted, besotted by Italian cinema, Nick Twisp (played by Michael Cera) seems an unlikely candidate for a rebel. But at 16, he’ll do anything to get a girl.
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Avatar: A Review (James Cameron, 2009)
BY: R. Greg Grooms
Avatar’s unabashed nature-worship has already been round the block a few times in Hollywood in films from Star Wars to The Lion King. While pantheism’s box-office appeal has been proven, philosophically it’s still lite beer, as Ross Douthat explained in his New York Times review:
The question is whether nature actually deserves a religious response. Traditional theism has to wrestle with the problem of evil: if God is good, why does he allow suffering and death. But nature is suffering and death. Its harmonies require violence. Its “circle of life” is really a circle of mortality.
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There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2008)
BY: Denis Haack
There Will be Blood is a brutally honest, brutally violent film. Greedy souls are dissected in plain view on the screen, hard souls for whom truth is a weapon, wealth is a god, and power is embraced in an unrelenting push to win, regardless of the cost. In a world where the possibility of truth is doubted and where evil is often reduced to genetic or environmental determinism, There Will be Blood proclaims that wickedness is real and is profoundly, violently destructive to all that is beautiful and human and noble.
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Reign Over Me (Mike Binder, 2007)
BY: Denis Haack
On September 11, 2001, Charlie Fineman was in a taxi en route to JFK airport to meet his family when he heard the first report of an airplane crashing into a building in Manhattan.
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Heavy Metal In Baghdad (VBS.TV, 2007)
BY: Matthew Hundley
Despite the enthusiastic fan base (albeit small) heavy metal is not a welcome musical style in Iraq. To hard-liners it represents an embrace of Western ideals and thus is frowned upon.
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Denis & Margie
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