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Five ways to turn your film into Oscar bait

Some of my recent favorite reviews from other film critics involve calling out movies that were clearly made with awards on the brain.

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If you’re a moviegoer, the transition from December to January is a rough one, like falling asleep in Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory and waking up in the dystopia of “Blade Runner.”

Review: `Frost/Nixon' depicts tense TV showdown

"No holds barred," Richard Nixon urges to David Frost as the two prepare to sit down for a series of interviews in 1977.

Movies no place to learn real history

If you watched Oliver Stone’s 1991 film “JFK,” and came away with the belief that everybody did it, you also unintentionally stumbled into a debate about the responsibilities of filmmakers dealing with historical subject matter. “JFK” still stands as the most notorious example of how Hollywood sometimes takes facts, puts them in a blender, then serves the resulting smoothie to often unsuspecting moviegoers.

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Frost/Nixon
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Frost slash Nixon or Nixon slash Frost? In a grudge match held under steamy television lights, pitting a chronically untelegenic former president against a suave, witty, exotically accented, impeccably tailored, smartly coiffured—downright Kennedyesque!—master of the medium …

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