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Jessica Chastain
More holiday movies: Jumanji, The Greatest Showman, Downsizing, Molly’s Game
Also Pitch Perfect 3 and All the Money in the World in which Christopher Plummer replaced Kevin Spacey
Volkmar Richter
Dec 21st, 2017
Ghost in the Shell, weak, The Zookeeper’s Wife, muddled, and The Boss Baby, great fun
Also notice the choreography super star Mr. Gaga and the one-time pop-up O, Brazen Age
Volkmar Richter
Mar 30th, 2017
Political lobbyists in America, a French woman re-building her life and two critical swipes at China
Also serious music for a rough neighborhood in Brazil in The Violin Teacher
Volkmar Richter
Dec 8th, 2016
Movies this week examine Russian corruption, hockey, American crime and health care in France
Leviathan, an Oscar possibility, Red Army, A Most Violent Year. They lead this week but check out Hippocrates too
Volkmar Richter
Jan 30th, 2015
Amour is cinema art, Quartet, The Last Stand and Camera Shy entertain
Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant, two veterans of classic French films, re-appear in the intensely emotional Amour.
Volkmar Richter
Jan 18th, 2013
The hunt for Bin Laden in Zero Dark Thirty, Mickey Cohen by the Gangster Squad and a tsunami in The Impossible
Jessica Chastain is Maya, the woman who found Osama Bin Laden. The Navy Seals finished the hunt in Zero Dark Thirty.
Volkmar Richter
Jan 10th, 2013
Movie reviews: Lawless, Compliance, Possession, and more
Prohibition and small town southern U.S. are nicely re-created in Lawless.
Volkmar Richter
Aug 31st, 2012
The 2012 Academy Awards red carpet predictions
What will Hollywood's leading ladies be wearing at the Oscars this year? VO has predictions on all the big fashion labels on the red carpet.
Vanessa Saw
Jan 29th, 2012