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Written by Sarah Boslaugh
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
Mamet’s characteristic style is on full display here. His characters
use language as a weapon and means of deception, speaking in stylized,
clipped patterns carefully crafted for effect, which is similar but not
quite like the way anyone really talks.
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Written by Sarah Boslaugh
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
The strain of the deception weighs heavily on young Schlomo, who
retreats into a silent ball of misery, punctuated by outbursts of
violence. His life improves after adoption by a leftist French-Jewish
couple, and gradually Schlomo comes
out of his shell and starts to take part in life.
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Written by Bobby Kirk
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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Hunt does a great job in her dual role. Her portrayal of a woman
redefining her life is excellent. April is harried and downtrodden, but
never inaccessible. April is definitely the victim, of bad luck, poor
timing, and other’s self-centeredness, but she is not perfect. She has
faults and makes bad decisions. She is a real person.
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Written by Jason Green
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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The film accomplishes exactly what The Matrix did in 1999 in that it looks like absolutely no other movie that preceded it.
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Written by Sarah Boslaugh
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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Vietnam provides an ideal natural laboratory to study the health effects of long-term exposure to Agent Orange.
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Written by Adrienne Jones
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Friday, 02 May 2008 |
In fact, the filmmakers didn’t take anything good very far. They make a
big deal of Tom and his basketball buddies deciding that he’s going to
“steal the bride” by being the best maid of honor ever. Can you guess
what Tom does then?
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Written by Amy Burger
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Friday, 02 May 2008 |
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The saving grace of this film is, not surprisingly, Wood’s standout
performance as young Diana, a self-aware “bad-girl” who smokes pot,
sleeps with older men and is full of attitude (a slightly more mature
version of her character in Thirteen).
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Written by Bobby Kirk
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Friday, 02 May 2008 |
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Planet B-Boy mixes liberal amounts of dance footage with
interviews with the top teams and their families, the European founders
of the event, and several B-Boy legends.
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Written by Jason Green
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Friday, 02 May 2008 |
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Marvel has a history with crowd-pleasing summer action flicks, but when it comes to crowd-pleasing, this film goes above and beyond.
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Written by Pete Timmermann
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Friday, 25 April 2008 |
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When Norah Jones was cast as the lead in My Blueberry Nights, the English language debut of maybe my favorite living director, Wong Kar-wai, I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt.
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Written by Adrienne Jones
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Friday, 25 April 2008 |
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Fey and Poehler work well as a somewhat uptight businesswoman and her wild, white-trash surrogate.
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Written by Joe Bowman
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Friday, 25 April 2008 |
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If you're patient, The Duchess of Langeais is a ravishing experience.
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Written by Pete Timmermann
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Friday, 25 April 2008 |
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My Blueberry Nights tells the story of Elizabeth, who travels across America in order to get over her ex, find herself, and maybe fall in love with Jude Law along the way.
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Written by Sarah Boslaugh
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
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Both challenge the easy compartmentalization of people into sexual or gender categories.
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Written by Sarah Boslaugh
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
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Anger has earned his place in the sun, and his sometimes cryptic films benefit from an explanation of how and why they were made.
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Written by Pete Timmermann
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Saturday, 19 April 2008 |
Segel is as great as he always is, but the real find here is what a
great writer of music he is. Segel wrote a few songs for the movie
(that are actually performed by characters in the movie; we’re not just
talking about score here), and they are really, really great.
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Written by Bobby Kirk
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Saturday, 19 April 2008 |
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Spurlock interviews a wide range of people from an array of
socio-economic backgrounds searching not only for Bin Laden, but what
these people really think of America, what gives rise to fanatics like
Bin Laden, and does the average person support terrorism.
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Written by Adrienne Jones
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Saturday, 19 April 2008 |
I wish I could say this was one of those films where an inspiring lead
performance lifted the material, but Pacino doesn’t add much to 88 Minutes.
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Written by Sarah Boslaugh
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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You’ve heard this story before, but what makes The Year My Parents Went on Vacation worth seeing is the unfamiliar setting: not just Brazil, but the Jewish community of Sao Paolo.
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Written by Bobby Kirk
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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Street Kings borrows so heavily in plot, tone and pace from Training Day that comparisons are inevitable, and while Street Kings is a thrill-a-minute roller coaster of action, Ayers is not Antoine Fuqua and Reeves is not Denzel Washington.
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Written by Bobby Kirk
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
This
type of film hinges on the cast, and the ensemble here is tremendous.
Dennis Quaid leads with one his best performances ever as the stodgy
widowed professor and patriarch of a seriously dysfunctional family.
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