KCRW's Film Reviews
By Joe Morgenstern
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Podcast Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic of The Wall Street Journal, Joe Morgenstern reviews films weekly in the paper and on KCRW; he airs his current musings on the film industry in a biweekly column for the paper as well. He has worked for The New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and his freelance writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Playboy, GQ and the Columbia Journalism Review. He has also written for television; his scripts include "The Boy In the Plastic Bubble" and several episodes of "Law & Order." Joe is a founding member of the National Society of Film Critics and a member of the New York Film Critics Circle.
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The Intouchables; Men in Black 3; Moonrise Kingdom | Joe Morgenstern offers thoughts on three very different new movies being released this Memorial Day weekend. | 25 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Dictator; Battleship | Joe Morgenstern considers Sacha Baron Cohen?s gleefully scabrous portrait of a fictional North African tyrant, and a board game gone megabudget-ballistic. | 18 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I Wish | The big weekend movie at the multiplexes may be Tim Burton's worn-out "Dark Shadows," but the big movie for Joe Morgenstern is a little Japanese comedy about kids. | 11 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Avengers | What if Marvel gave a party and everybody came? Joe Morgenstern on Joss Whedon?s "fitfully enjoyable convocation of Marvel's comic book superheroes..." | 4 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Headhunters; The Five-Year Engagement | Joe Morgenstern on the "smart, funny, scary, surprising" new Norwegian thriller, and the "mirthless romcon" from the Judd Apatow laugh factory... | 27 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Marley | Kevin Macdonald's "Marley" documents the emergence and evolution of the late reggae icon. | 20 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Titanic | You may remember the moment in Titanic when Molly Brown sees the suddenly tuxedoed Jack Dawson and says, "You shine up like a new penny." Well, Titanic in its new 3-D version shines up like gold bullion. | 6 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bully; The Island President | It's a good week for documentaries. "Bully" and "The Island President" are both worth checking out. | 30 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Hunger Games | Joe Morgenstern reviews "The Hunger Games," a movie about kids being manipulated ? literally unto death. It's a film that manipulates it audience as well? | 23 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Friends with Kids; John Carter | Joe Morgenstern on Jennifer Westfeldt's follow-up to Kissing Jessica Stein and Disney's latest would-be epic... | 9 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wanderlust; The Forgiveness of Blood | Joe Morgenstern considers David Wain's comedy of hippie chaos that makes nudity a selling point, and Joshua Marston's film on blood feuds and land disputes in Albania. | 24 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contraband | Joe Morgenstern reviews Contraband, a breakneck English-language remake of the Icelandic thriller, Reykjavkik-Rotterdam. | 13 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Best Films of 2011 | Could a mere ten movies represent a whole movie year? Joe Morgenstern gives it a try... | 30 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo | Joe Morgenstern, film critic of the Wall Street Journal, says the American remake of the Swedish-language trilogy has lots to recommend it, yet lacks a vital spark. | 26 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol | Joe Morgenstern on the latest installment of Mission Impossible with its "impossibly magical gadgets and gizmos" and a schizoid attitude toward technology that... | 16 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Young Adult | Joe Morgenstern on Young Adult, starring Charlize Theron, the latest from the filmmaker and writer who brought Juno to the screen. | 9 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shame | Steve McQueen's Shame is about a man trying to lose himself in soulless sex. The remarkable thing about it is that it keeps us connected to the hero? | 2 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hugo; The Artist | Joe Morgenstern on Martin Scorsese?s first 3-D fantasy, Hugo, and the black and white, mostly silent French production, The Artist? | 28 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Descendants | Director Alexander Payne (Sideways) takes on family and family history against the backdrop of our 50th state. | 18 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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J. Edgar | In principle, biography should do what J. Edgar tries to do -- reveal an inner life, whether or not the subject is outwardly appealing... | 11 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Like Crazy | The music of Paul Simon's Graceland flows through 'Like Crazy' and comments on it. This wise and beautiful little tale is about two lovers falling from a state of grace... | 28 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Margin Call | If your spine is given to shivers, watch out for the moment in Margin Call when a young risk analyst spots a piece of data on his computer screen, takes a moment to reflect... | 21 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Ides of March | Most of the campaign workers in The Ides of March worry about the polls; it's a political thriller, and polling is what people in contemporary politics do. I worried about... | 7 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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50/50 | When the frightened young hero of 50/50 reveals that he?s got a 50/50 chance of surviving his newly diagnosed spinal cancer, his buddy responds with... | 30 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Moneyball | The context of Moneyball is runaway commerce. The subtext is statistics? Never, until now, have statistics added up to such electrifying entertainment? | 23 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 25 Episodes |
