Articles by Christine Estima

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  Precious Life

  Shlomi Eldar

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2011

  Fuck me, doesn't this try hard? And doesn't it look like it? Everything about Precious Life, right up to its Oscar short-listing last year,...

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  The King's Speech

  Tom Hooper

  PUBLISHED Dec 9, 2010

  Last year, Colin Firth was tapped to win an Oscar for A Single Man, and this year with his stellar performance as the Duke of York, who wou...

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  For Colored Girls

  Tyler Perry

  PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2010

  Based on the famous '70s-era choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuff by Ntozake Shange, For Colo...

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  Father of My Children

  Mia Hansen-Løve

  PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2010

  French cinema trumps all other efforts, and I will have words with anyone who says otherwise. There has to be a je-ne-sais-quoi gene encode...

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  Even The Rain

  Iciar Bollain

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2010

  This is a bad place we are in, you and I, make no mistake; the world darkens on a daily basis and it seems only a matter of time before the...

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  Blue Valentine

  Derek Cianfrance

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2010

  Having Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams executive produce the feature they star in may sound like a bad, stoned joke, and will garner att...

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  As If I'm Not There

  Juanita Wilson

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2010

  At the risk of sounding trite, since seeing As If I'm Not There, the directorial debut of Juanita Wilson, about one young Muslim schoolteac...

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  Brighton Rock

  Rowan Joffe

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2010

  When people forget about the new and embrace the past far too tightly, great things rarely occur. The '60s might have been happening (at th...