Articles by Matthew Ritchie

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  Joy

  David O. Russell

  PUBLISHED Dec 21, 2015

  For some, it may be hard to imagine a movie about a single mother and entrepreneur's struggle to bring a revolutionary household product ou...

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  The Danish Girl

  Tom Hooper

  PUBLISHED Dec 11, 2015

  In 1930, Lili Elbe began a physical transformation that would help break down barriers decades later by undergoing one of the first documen...

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  People Places Things

  James C. Strouse

  PUBLISHED Dec 10, 2015

  All relationships are flawed; families are fucked up and few people get the life that they deserve. That seems to be the overarching messag...

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  Victor Frankenstein

  Paul McGuigan

  PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2015

  Did the world need another movie about Frankenstein's monster? Thanks to countless adaptations and re-imaginings, the Mary Shelley creation...

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  The Good Dinosaur

  Peter Sohn

  PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2015

  Awards season may still be three months away, but at least one film already has a few trophies locked down: Inside Out, Pixar's critically...

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  By the Sea

  Angelina Jolie Pitt

  PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2015

  When Mr. and Mrs. Smith was released in 2005, the most interesting thing about the movie didn't have to do with the actual finished product...

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  The Peanuts Movie

  Steve Martino

  PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2015

  Charles M. Schulz's classic comic strip Peanuts first appeared in newspapers 65 years ago and quickly spawned countless holiday specials, t...

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  Spectre

  Sam Mendes

  PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2015

  Somewhere along the line — between Jason Bourne's reign of supremacy and Jason Statham saying "yes" to seemingly every action movie t...