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Karina Longworth Prefers The Human Centipede to Another Year

Mike Leigh’s Another Year , which has been met with generally positive reviews (currently 89% on Rotten Tomatoes) and even some Oscar buzz for Lesley Manville’s performance, has just received it’s first takedown from a major critic. “I haven’t seen a film this year that so openly invited me to revile each and every one of its characters — and I reviewed The Human Centipede ,” wrote Karina Longworth in LA Weekly . Not only that, her Human Centipede review was a positive one. [ LA Weekly ]

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Karina Longworth Prefers The Human Centipede to Another Year

Wong Kar Wai vs. Terrence Malick: Who’s Got the More Inscrutable Trailer?

Like a phoenix rising from the stagnant pre-New Year’s Eve cesspool of news, here comes the teaser for the new Wong Kar Wai martial arts film The Grandmasters , with Tony Leung kicking and punching his way through…what’s that? There’s no kicking or punching in the teaser? Oh. There’s almost no indication of what the film looks like, you say. That seems about right for today. But here at Movieline HQ, this teaser made us wonder: Is this one-minute blast of calligraphy really any less revealing than the unexplained imagery in the much-drooled-over Tree of Life trailer ?

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Wong Kar Wai vs. Terrence Malick: Who’s Got the More Inscrutable Trailer?