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2011 Stories by Eric Hynes

• Year in Film: Filmmakers Who Transcended the 3D Gimmick

  published December 28, 2011

  It was 1952 in Haddon Township, N.J., and 5-year-old Steven Spielberg was bummed... More >>

• "A Warrior's Heart": A Hero's Journey Goes to Ridiculous Places

  published December 7, 2011

  The latest film to ride Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth as if it were a nonconsensual pony, A Warrior's Heart tries to... More >>

• Gay But That's Not the Point

  published October 5, 2011

  Naturalistic without being ineloquent, heartfelt yet unsentimental, Weekend is the rarest of birds: a movie romance that rings true.... More >>

• Azazel Jacobs, Director of "Terri," Breaks Free of the Labels

  published July 13, 2011

  Sheepishly, obligingly, Azazel Jacobs trespasses into the Manhattan apartment where he used to live. On Avenue A and 10th Street, above where... More >>

• "Page One": Producer Kate Novak on Getting Inside the New York Times

  published June 29, 2011

  A media organization covering the media is reflexive enough, but how about adding documentary filmmakers to the mix? "It was journalists... More >>

• "Submarine": Highly Stylized Brit Teen Dramedy Scores Big

  published June 8, 2011

  Imagine if David Fincher had played Joey on Friends. Or if Michel Gondry had replaced Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men. It's... More >>

• "The Hangover 2": Unfunny Bro Comedy Franchise Is Creatively Bankrupt

  published May 25, 2011

  Most sequels are born of good box office rather than good ideas — if you build it and they come, you simply must build another one... More >>

• "Thor": Dull Comic Book Adaptation Has No Thunder, No Lightning

  published May 4, 2011

  After more than a decade of high-profile Hollywood reboots, the shelves at Marvel and DC are starting to look empty. First came the obvious... More >>

• "Hanna": Teen Girl Kicks Major Ass in Taut Thriller

  published April 6, 2011

  The era of the teenage action heroine is fully upon us. As pop-cultural correctives go, it's a mixed blessing. In one corner, you've got the... More >>

• "Uncle Boonmee": Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Latest Is Bizarre, Beautiful

  published March 2, 2011

  When Apichatpong Weerasethakul was growing up in Thailand, he learned about movies the way kids everywhere did in the 1980s: pushing cassette... More >>