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2012 Stories by Eric Hynes

• Battle Royale: Hunger Games' Darkly Humorous Precursor

  published May 23, 2012

  In a broken world not unlike our own, the state corrals a group of teenagers into a tightly controlled terrain and compels them to murder one... More >>

• Parent Trap: The Narrow Worldview of What to Expect When You're Expecting

  published May 16, 2012

  Even though it doesn't have a story, characters, or setting, Heidi Murkoff's mega-bestselling, 28-year-old pregnancy manual, What to Expect... More >>

• Mahler on the Couch

  published May 16, 2012

  During the late summer of 1910, a distraught Gustav Mahler journeyed to Holland to spend a single afternoon with a vacationing Sigmund Freud,... More >>

• You Hurt My Feelings

  published May 2, 2012

  John is not your typical nanny: He's a sad burly bear of a man who's devoid of both expression and enthusiasm. While caring for two roving... More >>

• What To See at the Tribeca Film Festival

  published April 18, 2012

  To begin its second decade as the largest and most aggressively marketed survey of new movies in New York, the Tribeca Film Festival (April... More >>

• The Other America: Revisiting Lawrence Kasdan’s Grand Canyon

  published April 18, 2012

  Guess when Lawrence Kasdan wrote this line of dialogue: "The point is there's a gulf in this country, an ever-widening abyss between the people... More >>

• Unraveled

  published April 11, 2012

  In December of 2008, within days of Bernie Madoff's apprehension, New York attorney Marc Dreier was charged with eight counts of fraud and... More >>

• Whit Stillman's Toe-Tapping College-Girl Fantasy Damsels In Distress

  published April 4, 2012

  Back with his first film in 14 years, Whit Stillman still operates in a world of his own. It's true both in respect to the singularity of his... More >>

• The Trouble With Bliss

  published March 21, 2012

  As today's cinema continues to make plain, no issue is more vital to the state of civilization than the fate of electively unemployed... More >>

• Musical Chairs

  published March 21, 2012

  Three decades after rummaging through the ruins of the downtown punk scene (Smithereens) and immortalizing Madonna, East Village... More >>

• The FP

  published March 14, 2012

  Infinitely better as a beer-goggled pitch than as a feature film, The FP never gets beyond the studied novelty of its own pose. The... More >>

• Reuniting the Rubins

  published March 14, 2012

  Oy vey, Mumsy. Every time hapless widowed barrister Lenny Rubin (Timothy Spall) tries to embark on a relaxing sea cruise, his high-maintenance... More >>

• The Dish & the Spoon

  published February 8, 2012

  In premise, plotting, and style, Alison Bagnall's sophomore feature would seem like just another mumble-stumble down micro-indie lane. Averting... More >>

• Alpha in Motion: Liam Neeson's Return to Form

  published January 25, 2012

  Halfway through last year's rough-and-tumble thriller Unknown, assassins come calling for a man who's suffering from amnesia (Liam... More >>

• Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston

  published January 18, 2012

  There's a good film to be made about Halston, the dashing man who went from Iowa-born milliner to revered fashion designer to self-popularizing... More >>

• The City Dark

  published January 18, 2012

  Adhering to the brand of bad faith agitprop that views—and damns—the world through a chosen narrow lens, The City Dark... More >>

• Do Look Now: MOMI's Ambitious Inaugural Pocket Fest, First Look

  published January 4, 2012

  While it's true that New York needs another film festival as much as Callista Gingrich needs another line of credit, it's also true that,... More >>

• John Mellencamp: It's About You

  published January 4, 2012

  John Mellencamp comes across as the kind of anti-establishment millionaire who believes in artistic freedom but knows things are better done... More >>