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If the dialogue in The Last Station had been delivered about twice as fast, it would not be a stretch to label the film as a screwball tragedy. Its characters engage in clever repartee and trade barbs throughout, but ultimately it is the story of two people who have grown remote [...]

Cold Souls should have been really good. It stars Paul Giamatti as Paul Giamatti, an unhappy actor who pays a doctor (David Strathairn) to remove his soul in an “amazing” new procedure. No, it’s not a Charlie Kaufman movie, no matter how much it wants to be. Think a mixture of Being John Malkovich and [...]

Trumbo, based on a stage play of the same name, tells the story of Dalton Trumbo. Mr. Trumbo was a novelist, a screenwriter, and an accused communist. As one of the Hollywood Ten, he was blacklisted for his supposed beliefs, and for refusing to name names during the HUAC trials.

Given the scarcity of frothy entertainment made for grownups of late, it’s easy to forgive a movie like Duplicity for some of its flaws. Granted, it’s not a finely tuned heist like the recent successes Inside Man or Ocean’s Eleven, but, borrowing its lead actors from those films, it manages to reach a fairly satisfying result, [...]