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All Yoursnew
After sitting through this witless, irritating remake of a domestic comedy, don't be surprised if you find yourself shouting out for tougher reform schools, lock-down orphanages and mandatory sterilization.
East Bay Express |
Bill Gallo |
11-29-2005 |
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Jesus Savesnew
Sarah Silverman speaks the unspeakable; offending is part of her shtick. And funny? Oh hell, yes.
East Bay Express |
Robert Wilonsky |
11-21-2005 |
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Spell It Outnew
The film reduces Myla Goldberg's novel to a series of shallow metaphors, and it overplays every single one of them.
East Bay Express |
Melissa Levine |
11-15-2005 |
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Pluck Offnew
That's not the sky falling, just Disney's Chicken Little. Disney Digital 3-D had better be good to make up for the lame and obvious gags.
East Bay Express |
Luke Y. Thompson |
11-07-2005 |
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Strange Brewnew
Great performances by male leads Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth can't save this film about an obsessed celebrity journalist from a B-movie script.
East Bay Express |
Melissa Levine |
10-24-2005 |
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The Opposite of Sucknew
Mike Mills' debut film is original, electrifying, and humane, presenting complex and memorable people in whom we recognize ourselves.
East Bay Express |
Melissa Levine |
09-26-2005 |
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Call the Copsnew
What's truly galling about The Man is how its creators come from backgrounds that would certainly suggest they know better than to make such dreck.
East Bay Express |
Robert Wilonsky |
09-12-2005 |
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Southern Discomfortnew
A transplanted son revisits his Carolina roots in the ambitious drama Junebug.
East Bay Express |
Bill Gallo |
08-15-2005 |
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Happy Surprisenew
With a surprising ensemble and lively characters, Happy Endings is what happens when an eternal optimist makes movies about misanthropes who desperately want to love and to be loved.
East Bay Express |
Robert Wilonsky |
07-18-2005 |
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Free At Lastnew
Generous in spirit and fearlessly observant, The Beautiful Country deserves a place of honor among the great movies portraying emigrant tenacity.
East Bay Express |
Bill Gallo |
07-18-2005 |
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It Could Be Versenew
A solemn political parable calculated for post-9/11 sensibilities is written and performed almost entirely in rhyming iambic pentameter -- Shakespeare's measure -- and it means to tell us everything we need to know about love, war, God and cross-cultural antagonism.
East Bay Express |
Bill Gallo |
07-06-2005 |
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A Masterpiece That Wasn'tnew
Reflections of a failed marriage add up to a failed movie by a usually successful young French director.
East Bay Express |
Melissa Levine |
06-27-2005 |
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Chinese Boxnew
This movie from a familiar genre, the intergenerational immigrant drama, here with a gay subspecialty, has plenty of conflict but little excitement.
East Bay Express |
Melissa Levine |
06-06-2005 |
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Thick and Richnew
The new British crime drama from first-time director Matthew Vaughn is a block of granite struggling to liberate the statue inside it.
East Bay Express |
Bill Gallo |
05-24-2005 |
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Home Fires Burningnew
In this gripping drama, a dutiful Danish army officer returns from the war in Afghanistan a changed man.
East Bay Express |
Bill Gallo |
05-24-2005 |
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