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2015 End-of-Year Cramfest Capsules, Part III

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By Daniel Barnes More coffee-fueled palaver about meaningless awards and reductive categorizations?  No problemo! WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 Love & Mercy ***REWATCH*** (Dir.: Bill Pohlad; GRADE: B+) The only real change from my initial assessment of this Brian Wilson biopic is that I severely underrated Paul Giamatti’s performance, probably […]

2015 End-of-Year Cramfest Capsules, Part I

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By Daniel Barnes It’s that time of year again. Awards season, baby!  Let the naysayers focus on the dark side of the process: the wastefulness of awards campaigns, the annual sanctification of the middlebrow and the bland, the shameless glad-handing, the bloated self-importance of mediocre critics, the insipid […]