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Entries by Jonathan Kim from 10/2012

ReThink Interview: Eugene Jarecki, Director of The House I Live In

| Posted 10.03.2012

Eugene Jarecki's powerful documentary The House I Live In looks at the human consequences of the drug war's failure, which has left the African American community as collateral damage.

ReThink Review: Wuthering Heights - Modernized Classic

| Posted 10.05.2012

Oscar-winner Andrea Arnold has pulled off something very special with her adaptation of Emily Brontë's literary classic Wuthering Heights -- she's made a story that's over 150 years old feel modern without modernizing it.

ReThink Review: Argo - Blowback to the Future

| Posted 10.12.2012

With an impressive 91 percent fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes, Argo has been receiving some Oscar buzz, with some critics claiming it's one of the year's best films.

The Master and the Slow Boat to China (With Spoilers)

| Posted 10.17.2012

While many want The Master to be an assault on what they see as a kooky and possibly dangerous cult, I'm not convinced that The Master is or has to be about more than its two main characters struggling and ultimately failing to make themselves whole.

ReThink Review: Brooklyn Castle - Making Chess Club Cool

| Posted 10.19.2012

It's impossible to watch Brooklyn Castle and think that a program like this and the kids who benefit from it should be sacrificed so multi-millionaires can get a tax cut, so hopefully this scrappy, inspiring doc and its chess wizards get all the attention they deserve.

ReThink Review: Cloud Atlas - Free Time

| Posted 10.26.2012

Would the Wachowskis redeem themselves with another reality-twisting mindbender? Or would Cloud Atlas prove that The Matrix was truly a fluke?