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Saturday, January 18, 2014

Cheer Up, Guys. This is Not Goodbye. It's Just I Won't Ever See You Again

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When I started this blog in spring 2008, I thought it would be a good way to express my thoughts on movies and, to be honest, keep busy wr...
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Thursday, October 3, 2013

The Big Review: "Gravity"

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When the beat goes on, and you can't go on... Forget about the IMAX and 3D nonsense, it would be a classic in any era. (Just like 2...
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Film Round-Up for October 2013: Don Jon, Inequality for All, Blue Caprice, Salinger

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt overexerts himself in his directorial debut. Kind of a mixed bag this month. A review of Gravity will be up Thur...
Friday, September 13, 2013

Film Round-Up for September: "Morning," "Una Noche," "Short Term 12," "I Give It a Year"

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Brie Larson (left), future Oscar nominee. Reprinted with permission from ICON , here's an eclectic collection of reviews. The reaso...

The Big Review: "Lee Daniels' The Butler"

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Standing in the shadows of history. Oh yeah, this will get a ton of Oscar nominations--though I won't care if that happens since it...
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Monday, August 19, 2013

On Zander Hollander and the New York Times

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This was an unbelievable experience. I grew up reading Zander's Complete Handbooks, so to shake hands with the man who defined a large...

Rose Darling, My Friend

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I had a nice chat with Rose Byrne a couple of weeks ago for Film Racket , which the peerless Matt Zoller Seitz was gracious enough to link...
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I review movies for ICON and The Weekender along with blogging regularly at Entertainment Tell. My writing has appeared in the New York Times, Grantland, the Christian Science Monitor, Deadspin, MAD, Publishers Weekly, New Jersey Monthly, Philadelphia, and the Star-Ledger. I live with my wife, piano professor and instructor Laura Amoriello (www.lauraamoriello.com), in Bucks County, PA. Follow me on Twitter, @PeteCroatto.
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