Articles by Scott A. Gray

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  Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

  Tommy Wirkola

  PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2013

  If ever a script polish would have made the difference between a fun, cheeky action romp and an ultimately facile bauble of a film, Tommy W...

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  A Haunted House

  Michael Tiddes

  PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2013

  While it's not a formal entry into the lowbrow Wayans family spoof-a-thon franchise, this Marlon-penned send-up of Paranormal Activity beat...

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  Parker

  Taylor Hackford

  PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2013

  Whoever's bright idea it was to hire Taylor Hackford to direct Jason Statham as Donald E. Westlake's popular and long-lived ethical antiher...

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  ...And God Created Woman

  Roger Vadim

  PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2013

  French director Roger Vadim's 1956 feature (his first)—the film that launched the career of legendary beauty Brigitte Bardot—is...

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  The Makioka Sisters

  Kon Ichikawa

  PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2013

  Widely considered to be among the grandmasters of Japanese cinema, Kon Ichikawa displays a lot of deliberate restraint in his 1983 adaptati...

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  Ma Nuit chez Maud

  Eric Rohmer

  PUBLISHED Jan 19, 2013

  The fourth film of Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales cycle, Ma Nuit chez Maud, gave the French New Wave director a major boost in stature when...

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  Mama

  Andres Muschietti

  PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2013

  A marketing campaign focused on the done-to-death horror cliché of the spooky little girl is somewhat of a disservice to Andres Muschietti'...

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  House at the End of the Street [Blu-Ray]

  Mark Tonderai

  PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2013

  Beneath the frequent, extreme acts of idiocy exhibited by every character, largely predictable twists of a plot not a fraction as clever as...