All rise for Robert Downey Jr., who takes a breather from franchise load-bearing to stretch his legs dramatically. The Judge may deliver his meatiest role since The Soloist but it comes saddled with the same issues that afflicted Joe Wright’s 2009 film, namely being manipulative middlebrow awards bait without the …
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Maverick director James Toback ( Fingers ) and Alec Baldwin front this frequently hilarious insider doc. The set-up has the pair hitting Cannes 2012 to pitch a Last Tango In Paris -style drama, starring Baldwin and Neve Campbell, to financiers, distributors and the like. Baldwin gets particularly humbled (dubbed a …
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Early on in James Wan’s sixth film, we’re shown a room of scary relics accrued by paranormal investigators Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) over a life of busting ghosts. For good and bad, Wan’s career is that room in movie form. Invoking Dario Argento’s baroque operas ( …
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