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Rearview Mirror: “American Hustle”

David O. Russell’s real scam in his 2013 crime-(not-quite)-comedy is ripping off Scorsese.

December 13, 2023
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Rearview Mirror: “Australia”

As it gets re-released and (somehow) expanded as the Hulu limited series Faraway Downs, we revisit Baz Luhrmann’s extremely long adventure film on its 15th anniversary.

November 27, 2023
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Rearview Mirror: “Zack and Miri Make a Porno”

Upon revisiting the 2008 sex comedy it’s evident that Kevin Smith could have made a better movie.

November 01, 2023
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Rearview Mirror: “Enough Said”

Nicole Holofcener’s 2013 dramedy about rude white people at least offers a look at James Gandolfini’s softer side in his final (-ish) role.

September 25, 2023
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Rearview Mirror: “Thirteen”

Wincing through the messy pleasures of Catherine Hardwicke’s 2003 directorial debut.

August 21, 2023
Raffaella’s Approachable, Intellectual Soundtrack to Adolescence

The songwriter discusses the Claire’s-by-way-of-Sofia-Coppola aesthetic that informs her Live, Raff, Love EP series ahead of her supporting slot on Bishop Briggs and MisterWives’ tour.

August 21, 2023
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Rearview Mirror: “Mamma Mia!”

The Barb– to 2008’s Barbenheimer is so much more than a movie.

July 18, 2023
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Rearview Mirror: “This Is the End”

The 2013 Seth Rogen stoner-comedy-turned-disaster-film is far less objectionable than its overwhelming 2013-ness may suggest.

June 12, 2023
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Rearview Mirror: “Bruce Almighty”

The surprisingly modest and un-preachy 2003 Biblical comedy ages better than most of Jim Carrey’s 1990s run.

May 23, 2023
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Rearview Mirror: “Baby Mama”

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s 2008 Odd Couple surrogacy comedy is OK—and that’s OK.

April 25, 2023
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Rearview Mirror: “View From the Top”

In failing to put funny first, the 2003 Gwyneth Paltrow romcom is grounded before it ever gets a chance to take off.

March 21, 2023
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Rearview Mirror: “In Bruges”

Revisiting the more Farrell-focused (and slur-laced) predecessor to Oscar fave The Banshees of Inisherin 15 years on.

February 27, 2023
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Rearview Mirror: “Movie 43”

Offensive in a lazy way, this 2013 collection of comic vignettes is rightly remembered as little more than a strange line on the IMDbs of a dozen respected stars.

January 25, 2023
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Rearview Mirror: “Gangs of New York”

Martin Scorsese’s 2002 historical epic is a lot of things—perhaps too many—including unmet potential and misused material.

December 20, 2022
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Rearview Mirror: “Lincoln”

2012’s installment of The Annual Christmastime Spielberg was good and—huge, annoyed sigh—very relevant.

November 09, 2022
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Rearview Mirror: “Across the Universe”

The mid-’00s homage to the Fab Four is really more of a relic of how mid the 2000s got to be.

October 12, 2022
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Rearview Mirror: “Pitch Perfect”

With the upcoming TV spin-off due soon, we remember a just-OK movie and a salient cultural artifact from the year 2012.

September 28, 2022
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Rearview Mirror: “The Nanny Diaries”

In this 2007 dramedy, even the low-hanging fruit goes unharvested.

August 24, 2022
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Rearview Mirror: “Ruby Sparks”

10 years on, the wish-fulfillment-fantasy rom-com is still a pleasant watch, though it may be a bit darker than you remember.

July 25, 2022
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Rearview Mirror: “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood”

Revisiting the not-entirely-un-Everything-Everywhere-All-at-Once–like dramedy 20 years on.

June 07, 2022
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