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2011 Stories by Eric Hynes

• Garry Marshall, Risible Genius

  published December 8, 2011

  Garry Marshall gives you what you came for. "A dollar's work for a dollar's pay," is how Marshall mainstay Hector Elizondo puts it in The... More >>

• Coriolanus Review

  published December 1, 2011

  Updating Shakespeare seems doubly condescending, the implication being that we need help in relating to the text, and that the text needs to be... More >>

• A Warrior's Heart Review

  published December 1, 2011

  The latest film to ride Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth as if it were a nonconsensual pony, A Warrior's Heart tries to... More >>

• Weekend Review

  published September 29, 2011

  Naturalistic without being ineloquent, heartfelt yet unsentimental, Weekend is the rarest of birds: a movie romance that rings true.... More >>

• Azazel Jacobs Interview

  published June 30, 2011

  Sheepishly, obligingly, Azazel Jacobs trespasses into the Manhattan apartment where he used to live. On Avenue A and 10th... More >>

• Submarine: Directed by Richard Ayoade, English Sitcom Star

  published June 2, 2011

  Imagine if David Fincher had played Joey on Friends. Or if Michel Gondry had replaced Charlie Sheen on Two and a... More >>

• The Hangover Part II: Been There, Drunk That

  published May 26, 2011

  Most sequels are born of good box office rather than good ideas — if you build it and they come, you simply must build... More >>

• Wretches & Jabberers

  published April 14, 2011

  WRETCHES & JABBERERS For what it’s worth, Wretches & Jabberers is never less than clear about its objectives. Two men with... More >>

• Hanna

  published April 7, 2011

  HANNA Joe Wright's Hanna is a tech-savvy fairy tale, replete with a wicked witch, uncertain parentage and chopsocky mixed... More >>

• The Music Never Stopped

  published March 17, 2011

  THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED Based on a typically heart-wrenching case study by Oliver Sacks, this admirably modest adaptation... More >>

• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

  published March 3, 2011

  When Apichatpong Weerasethakul was growing up in Thailand, he learned about movies the way kids everywhere did in the 1980s:... More >>

• Shoah: A Film About Death

  published January 6, 2011

  Returning to movie screens a full generation after its initial 1985 theatrical run, Claude Lanzmann's Shoah has in... More >>