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Gravity

Grav­i­ty” affirms that San­dra Bul­lock can star in vir­tu­al­ly any­thing. Her per­for­mance in Alfon­so Cuaron’s inter­stel­lar thriller tells us some­thing we might not have know about her: she’s tru­ly a fear­less actress. Only she can star in a film as light as “The Heat” (2013) before mov­ing on to a more heavy and dra­mat­ic project like “Grav­i­ty” in which she stars as an astro­naut fighting… 

The Place Beyond the Pines

Luke (Ryan Gosling) knows how to expert­ly han­dle a motor­cy­cle because of his job as a stunt rid­er at a car­ni­val.  This is a skill that serves him well par­tic­u­lar­ly when he decides to turn into a bank rob­ber to pro­vide finan­cial­ly for his lover (played by Eva Mendes) and new­born son. Then there’s Avery (Bradley Coop­er), an ambi­tious rook­ie cop. His dilem­ma is that… 

To the Wonder: Roger Ebert’s last movie review

This was the last movie review Roger Ebert filed. Released less than two years after his “The Tree of Life,” an epic that began with the dinosaurs and peered into an uncer­tain future, Ter­rence Mal­ick­’s “To the Won­der” is a film that con­tains only a hand­ful of impor­tant char­ac­ters and a few cru­cial moments in their lives. Although it uses dia­logue, it’s dreamy and half-heard, and essentially… 

The 10 films of 2012

Select­ed by Paul Stathakis | March 14, 2013: In 2012, we were thrilled as we watched a bike mes­sen­ger zigzag dan­ger­ous­ly through traf­fic in New York City to deliv­er pack­ages on time. James Bond pre­sent­ed him­self before us like nev­er before: old­er, tired, rugged, and per­haps at his most vul­ner­a­ble ever. We had a lit­tle dose of his­to­ry as we watched a high­­­ly-regard­ed U.S. Pres­i­dent passionately…