How, oh how, does a film like American Hustle get to be an Oscar contender? Yes, it’s big and it’s brash and yes, it’s emotionally manipulative, but jeez it’s a mess of a film, and I’m not even sure it has a plot. Conman Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale, with a paunch and a comb-over) and…
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The Bourne Legacy is something of a slow burn. It takes its time to build up the back story – which is that the appearance of Jason Bourne in Manhattan in the third part of the series has prompted a complete termination of the Treadstone Project and all of the agents operating within it. That…
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OK, OK, OK, I take it all back. He’s NOT “Flobby Ben Affleck” any more, OK? I get it. He’s a lean mean fighting machine. And in The Town, which he also directed with flair, he is electrifyingly good. Set in the Charlestown area of Boston that’s apparently reknowned for its national ranking in bank…
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