The Dark Knight

 

'Inception': As eye-catching, and as profound, as an Usher concert

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Inception could be the film of this as-yet untitled decade. If Dark Knight was about criminals and lawmen trading hats, Inception is about a post-law world, where master thieves and mercenaries go about their business without much hassle from the authorities. In fact, the only real authorities here are billionaires. More

By Steven Boone

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July 16, 2010 7:00 am

 

How to save the summer movie using only Charlie Chaplin

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If The Dark Knight has helped kill the already enlarged heart of summer movies (which were founded upon the nimble, character-based thrills of Jaws and Star Wars), then films as soulful and thrilling as The Circus, if shown at a big multiplex instead of an arthouse like Film Forum (where it opens this week in a new 35mm print along with Chaplin's sublime short, The Idle Class), could resuscitate a movie tradition currently lost in greed and folly. More

By Steven Boone

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July 12, 2010 10:03 am