Friday, April 5, 2013

"Spring" cinema

Opening This Week:

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/e/13_evildead.htm> Evil Dead
★★★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - Ardent fans of the earlier "The Evil Dead," rest easy: your
beloved film has neither been cheapened nor desecrated. "Evil Dead" is a
giddily effective bombardment of mangled body parts and gushes of viscera
while simultaneously weaving a supernatural tale that is tension-filled and
genuinely disquieting.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/e/13_evildead.htm> Read the Full
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/p/13_placebeyondthepines.htm> The
Place Beyond the Pines
★★★ (out of ★★★★)

Select Cities - A sobering crime drama about the life-altering
reverberations that occur across two families and multiple generations when
their existences fatefully collide, "The Place Beyond the Pines" is,
perhaps, a little too convenient at sorting out its plot threads, but
nevertheless remains a tough, compelling, uncompromising experience.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/p/13_placebeyondthepines.htm> Read
the Full Review >>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/u/13_upstreamcolor.htm> Upstream Color
★★½ (out of ★★★★)

Select Cities - "Upstream Color" is about nothing less than the circuitous
nature of living and dying and the organic wonders of rebirth. Hefty
topics, but so it goes with a filmmaker of Shane Carruth's wild stripes.
His handling of such idiosyncratic material is admirable, but there is a
distance that remains between the viewer and his subjects.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/u/13_upstreamcolor.htm> Read the Full
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