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'Nick & Norah' Captures Teen Romance's Sweet Awkwardness
Peter Sollett has now established himself as cinema's reigning genius of awkward young love.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-26-2008 |
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Soldiers on Leave Have the Usual Wacky Road Trip Adventures in 'The Lucky Ones'new
The only movie genre more exhausted than the road-trip movie is the coming-home movie.
New York Press |
Mark Peikert |
09-25-2008 |
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'Choke' Finds an Unexpected Vein of Sweetness in Chuck Palahniuk
Clark Gregg took Palahniuk's Choke as screenwriter and director and found another vein. Buried beneath the blasphemy and the bodily fluids and the self-loathing was a story about redemption. About recovery. About love.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-22-2008 |
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'Miracle at St. Anna' Shows War Isn't the Genre for Spike Lee
Spike Lee boxes outside of his directorial weight-class with a war story bogged down by ham-handed smacks of magical realism and over-pronounced examples of racial prejudice.
'Battle in Seattle': Free-Trade Aggrievementnew
The riots begin early in Battle in Seattle, and not 20 minutes into Stuart Townsend's portrayal of the 1999 World Trade Organization protests, there's a doomsday exchange between the city’s police chief and its freaked-out mayor.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
09-18-2008 |
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'A Girl Cut in Two' and 'Towelhead': The Feminine Mistakenew
Two films portray women who turn into others' playthings.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
09-18-2008 |
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'Lakeview Terrace' Goes to Hell and Back Again
Fifteen years after the heyday of the "fill-in-the-blank from hell" thriller, the genre looks exactly the same.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-15-2008 |
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Tags: Neil LaBute, Lakeview Terrace
'Cthulhu' is Smartly Creepy, if Not Quite Compellingnew
Although murky in its storytelling, Cthulhu isn't stifled by its artiness (notwithstanding the Yeats quotes). But neither does the movie ever achieve the clarity of good, honest bloodletting.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
09-15-2008 |
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Tags: Cthulhu, Dan Gildark
'Righteous Kill' is a Clichéd Crime Dramanew
It's hard for film buffs not to raise an eyebrow in cautious excitement upon hearing that Robert De Niro and Al Pacino will star in a New York City cop flick. But even these heavyweights can't prop up a pic by themselves.
Montreal Mirror |
Christopher Sykes |
09-12-2008 |
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'Trouble the Water': The Big Uneasynew
This new documentary goes into the eye of the Hurricane Katrina disaster that wiped out a community.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
09-04-2008 |
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Jason Statham is Hollywood’s Last Action Hero Because of His B-movie Statusnew
Statham's not just the latest big-screen badass; he's come to stand for quality product.
New York Press |
Armond White |
08-29-2008 |
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Darby Crash Biopic Feels Like 'High School Musical' With Heroinnew
What We Do Is Secret, named after a Germs song, begins with one genuine moment--Shane West perfectly imitating Crash's baby-talkish onstage requests for a "beerwa"—but crumbles into cartoonish movie-of-the-week territory from there.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
08-29-2008 |
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Fortunately, 'Traitor' Has Don Cheadle's Moral Heftnew
Now that Traitor is done, it seems like puffing this package up with commercial viability also was a way of watering its premise down.
Charleston City Paper |
Jonathan Kiefer |
08-27-2008 |
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Patrick Creadon's Chilling Doc Proves the Economy is About to Implodenew
For a topic as inherently boring as economics, Creadon (who accomplished something similar with his doc Wordplay) has managed a creditable job of keeping our attention throughout I.O.U.S.A.
New York Press |
Mark Peikert |
08-25-2008 |
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For All its Flaws, 'Mirrors' Offers Insight into an Intriguing Directornew
Director Alexandre Aja's films have been so mired in controversy that no one seems to notice how personal they are.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Steve Palopoli |
08-21-2008 |
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Tags: Alexandre Aja, Mirrors
