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'The Informers': Slightly Greater Than Zeronew
With The Informers, director Gregor Jordan seems to take Bret Easton Ellis' vapid observations at face value and delivers a glitzy study in obviousness.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
04-29-2009 |
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'State of Play''s Thrills Put Reporters Above the Foldnew
Russell Crowe anchors an engrossing film that offers a timely tribute to print newspapers during their possible twilight.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
04-15-2009 |
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'Un Secret' Exposes One Family's Wartime Mythsnew
Un Secret could be a companion film to The Reader in its exploration of sexuality and World War II survivors' guilt. Instead of focusing on German culpability, Un Secret explores a family's repressed memories and ambivalent feelings toward its own Jewishness.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
04-10-2009 |
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'Adventureland' Finds Charm in the Mysteries of Pittsburghnew
Flashing back to the '80s, the charming coming-of-age comedy Adventureland sets up tension between Falco and Lou Reed to convey the crossroads facing its young heroes.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
04-01-2009 |
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Not Another Fairy Tale: 'Beauty in Trouble'new
Like the best of Kundera's fiction, Beauty in Trouble explores the ways that politics, history and economics can meet in the bedrooms of Prague.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
02-25-2009 |
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Scintillating 'Coraline' Opens a Case of Curious Buttonsnew
Henry Selick, who also directed Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, presents an ingenious fusion of delicate stop-motion animation and splashy 3-D gimmickry.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
02-04-2009 |
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'Waltz With Bashir'new
Ari Folman's surreal remembrance of Israel's 1982 war with Lebanon, ends on the most wrenching note imaginable, yet leaving the theater offers no relief to the audience. The real world only amplifies the movie's disheartening themes.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-28-2009 |
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'Defiance': Anne Frank, Get Your Gunnew
The wartime drama Defiance seeks to put an asterisk beside the conventional wisdom of World War II history.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-21-2009 |
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'Revolutionary Road' Needs Some Cheese for its Whinenew
Seldom has such an intelligent, impeccably mounted film seemed so far removed from the contemporary cultural mood as Revolutionary Road.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-09-2009 |
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'Benjamin Button' & 'Gran Torino': Showcasing Artful Codgersnew
Two of the holiday season's most prestigious, Oscar-baiting movies seem informed by the resentment of aging and mortality summed up in Dylan Thomas' poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
12-24-2008 |
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Hollywood Product: 'The Spirit'new
Imagine the stark, monochromatic visuals of Miller's Sin City as a backdrop for the campy humor of Adam West's Batman series. Then imagine that the visuals hurt your eyes and the humor leaves you cold, and you get a sense of The Spirit as a wearying waste.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
12-24-2008 |
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Charlie Kaufman Strains His Brain in 'Synecdoche'new
For his directorial debut, Kaufman shoots the moon, facing themes of loneliness, illness, failure and mortality as if he'll never make another film again. If Synecdoche is about making life count, Kaufman practices what he preaches.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-12-2008 |
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Hollywood Takes a Stab at Hollywood in 'What Just Happened?'new
I'm going to suggest one measure for judging a Hollywood satire: Does it leave you wanting to see the fictional film-within-the-film it dramatizes? If not, the L.A. story probably doesn't qualify as a success
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-29-2008 |
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'Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist' Hits All the Right Notesnew
Nick & Norah's playlist may not be infinite, but it creates such good vibrations that it's definitely transcendent.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-01-2008 |
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Director Clark Gregg 'Choke's on Chuck Palahniuk's storynew
Gregg's adaptation retains Palahniuk's gift of gab, but when it needs to step up and make a statement about sex addiction, contemporary maturity, America's moral decline -- anything, really -- Choke ultimately chokes.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-24-2008 |
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