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'Baby Mama' is Mildly Funny but Mostly Uninspirednew
There are definitely some laughs, but the film feels lazy overall, as if someone decided that having talented comedic actors was enough and if they could just do their own thing with an OK script then a serviceable comedy would somehow just ensue.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
04-25-2008 |
Reviews
'The Year My Parents Went on Vacation' Drops the Ballnew
The film recreates World Cup fever in 1970s Brazil, but the story is stale.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
03-28-2008 |
Reviews
David Schwimmer on 'Run Fat Boy Run'new
"I had no idea my first film would be a London comedy!" Schwimmer says, laughing.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
03-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Schwimmer, Run Fat Boy Run
'Miss Pettigrew' is Charming but Not Funnynew
For its admirable attempt to recreate the rhythm and madcap antics of a period screwball comedy, the film is missing something. It's missing the comedy.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
03-07-2008 |
Reviews
Feel the Painnew
The drugs don't work for Hayden Christensen in the lousy thriller Awake.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
12-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Awake, Joby Harold
Josh Brolin & Kelly MacDonald on 'No Country for Old Men'new
Both Brolin and MacDonald are open in their admiration for the Coen brothers.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
11-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
'American Gangster' is a Heroin-Dealing Disappointmentnew
There's a lot that this movie promises and never delivers.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
11-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: American Gangster, Ridley Scott
'The District' is Comically Grotesquenew
Nothing and everything in the film works, but there are bursts of impressive creative energy that juice up the movie every time it starts to slacken, and you have to give it credit for being, as far as I know, the world's first Hungarian animated quasi-political sexually explicit rap musical.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
10-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Aron Gauder, The District
Anton Corbijn on His Gorgeously Bleak New Filmnew
Control recreates the brief and intense life of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
10-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Control, Anton Corbijn
All Aboard the Night Trainnew
Montreal's Clyde Henry Productions on
their strange and innovative stop-motion
animation Madame Tutli-Putli.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
10-12-2007 |
Reviews
'The Seeker' Is Flat and Boringnew
This film, based on the novel by Susan Cooper, is a grade-A turkey.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
10-05-2007 |
Reviews
The Holy Mission of Montreal's Christian Film Festivalnew
The first-ever festival features some surprising choices.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
10-05-2007 |
Movies
'Brand Upon on the Brain!' is a Deranged Spectaclenew
It's too bad everyone can't see Guy Maddin's latest in the form it was originally intended. Presented in Toronto and New York with live sound effects, narration, and even singing, Maddin’s silent movie was created with the idea of being "a lavish spectacle for the masses," in the director's own words.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
10-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Brand upon the Brain!, Guy Maddin
Fall Film Preview: Autumn-atic Cinemanew
Monster mists, killer aliens, steamy sex scenes and much more fall into cinemas this season.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
09-14-2007 |
Movies
'The Nanny Diaries': More Adventures in Babysittingnew
Like The Devil Wears Prada, Diaries never does much more than indulge its audience’s happy willingness to feel superior to rich people, but that’s not to say that it doesn't have some fun doing it.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
08-27-2007 |
Reviews
