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July 2012 movies
Except for The Amazing Spider-Man, here are the movie reviews I wrote for the July issue of EL Magazine, which was distributed in Tokyo on Monday. The Amazing Spider-Man The gratuitousness of rebooting...
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August 2012 movies
Here are the movie reviews I wrote for the August issue of EL Magazine, which is distributed in Tokyo today. The Avengers With Joss Whedon at the wheel and 7-count-em-7 heroes, this extrapolation of...
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September 2012 movies
Here are the movies I reviewed for the Sept. issue of EL Magazine, which was distributed in Tokyo last weekend. Carlos In one of his numerous trite pronouncements, the internationally famous terrorist...
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October 2012 movies
Here are the movie reviews I wrote for the October issue of EL Magazine, which is being distributed in Tokyo today. The Bourne Legacy Tony Gilroy was a very capable scriptwriter before he was a...
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Media Mix, Oct. 14, 2012
Shin Suwon and Francis Lim Here’s this week’s Media Mix, which is about the fierce competition in Korean high schools to get into prestigious universities. It was inspired by the movie Pluto, which I...
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November 2012 movies
Here are the movie reviews I wrote for the November issue of EL Magazine, which was distributed in Tokyo last Thursday. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Though clearly a stupid movie, this adaptation...
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December 2012 movies
Here are the movie reviews I wrote for the Dec. issue of EL Magazine, which was distributed in Tokyo last weekend. Ai no yukue The “tentatively” titled Where Does Love Go? is extrapolated from a story...
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January 2013 movies
Here are the movie reviews I wrote for the January issue of EL Magazine, which was distributed in Tokyo on Christmas Day. Albert Nobbs The title character of this modest period piece is a waiter in a...
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Best movies 2012
Keisuke Kinoshita These are my favorite movies that were released in Japan in 2012. Of them, only one was produced here and that one wasn’t even directed by a Japanese person, thus demonstrating my...
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February 2013 movies
Here are the movie reviews I wrote for the February issue of EL Magazine, which was distributed in Tokyo today. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel This eminently dismissable comedy belongs to that...
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March 2013 movies
Here are the movie reviews I wrote for the March issue of EL Magazine, which was distributed in Tokyo on Monday. Amour Michael Haneke’s unsentimental study of the decay of flesh and soul couldn’t be...
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April 2013 movies
Here are the movie reviews I wrote for the April issue of EL Magazine, which was distributed in Tokyo on Monday. Anna Karenina Arguably the greatest novel ever written and one of the few whose scope...
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May 2013 movies
Here are the movie reviews I wrote for the May issue of EL Magazine, which is being distributed in Tokyo today. Ek Tha Tiger Former documentary filmmaker Kabir Khan has become successful in Bollywood...
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The pursuit of happiest: Will and Jaden Smith in Tokyo
Like father like superstar In his newest sci-fi blockbuster, After Earth, Will Smith plays a man who is incapacitated during a crash landing on earth some thousand years into the future and in order to...
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June 2013 movies
Here are the movies reviews I wrote for the June issue of EL Magazine, which will be distributed in Tokyo tomorrow. Celeste and Jesse Forever Though ostensibly a two-hander, this melancholic romantic...
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July 2013 movies
Here are the movie reviews I wrote for the July issue of EL Magazine, which was distributed in Tokyo today. After Earth At the press conference for After Earth last month, producer-star-story creator...
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August 2013 movies
Here are the movie reviews I wrote for the August issue of EL Magazine, which was distributed in Tokyo on July 25. Emperor Though most scholars think that Hirohito was more responsible for the Pacific...
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September 2013 movies
Here are the movie reviews I wrote for the Sept. issue of EL Magazine, which was distributed in Tokyo on Sunday. Elysium It says something about Neill Blomkamp’s big budget studio followup to his...
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October 2013 movies
Here are the movie reviews I wrote for the October issue of EL Magazine, which was distributed in Tokyo today. Broken City The kind of movie that Sidney Lumet turned into a cottage industry, this crime...
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BIFF Day 2
The festival put me in the Seacloud Hotel this year rather than the Grand, where I usually stay. I stayed at the Seacloud once when it first opened and liked its efficiency rooms with a sink, stovetop,...
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