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2012 Stories by Nick Pinkerton

• This Means War is a pandering, too-familiar film

  published February 16, 2012

  Hostilities in This Means War are declared as two workmates compete for the affection of the same woman. The contested objective... More >>

• Minimalist horror flick The Innkeepers is free of gluttonous effects

  published February 2, 2012

  Ti West, the 34-year-old writer-director of The Innkeepers, has spent the past several years steadily toiling his way through the... More >>

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close feels like Oscar-trolling 9/11 kitsch

  published January 19, 2012

  Director Stephen Daldry has never met a Big Theme he didn't like: After 2002's The Hours, a lugubrious women's-problem picture... More >>

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  Haywire puts the impact back into screen violence

  published January 19, 2012

  There's a point in Haywire when the film's protagonist, ex-Marine Mallory Kane (Gina Carano), gone rogue from her job as hired... More >>

• Outrage depicts the yakuza with bemused irony

  published January 5, 2012

  Takeshi Kitano's latest finds the actor-director returning to the familiar terrain of the yakuza film after recent farces (Achilles and the... More >>