‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ – The end is nigh

HollywoodandFine.com These feel like cinematic end times – not in terms of Hollywood movies (that horse is already out of the barn), but in the pack-mentality, “hey, it’s good enough” approach of critics to the colossus that bestrides summer movies, otherwise known as the Marvel Universe. I speak specifically of …

Week in Movies: ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier,’ ‘Dom Hemingway’ and more

HollywoodandFine.com Maybe it’s because the studio movies at this time of year are so universally dreadful, but I find myself drawn to the smaller films that bite and snarl and generally have bad manners: “Bad Words,” “The Raid 2” and, this week, “Dom Hemingway.” Written and directed by Richard Shepard …

‘Her,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

HollywoodandFine.com Spike Jonze’s “Her” is the year’s most audacious trick: a film whose best (and longest) moments are simply dialogue between two lovers, figuring out their feelings about themselves and each other. If that sounds like “Before Midnight” or either of the other Richard Linklater talking-lovers movies, well, OK – …

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