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Updated 'Robin Hood' A Dark, Joyless Experiencenew
Russell Crowe version of Robin Hood lacks lightness, and a sense of overall purpose.
SEE Magazine |
Kenton Smith |
05-25-2010 |
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Only a Thread: Romero Loses His Credibility
Sometimes nothing is better than something. George A. Romero's latest zombie retread demotes the 70-year-old filmmaker to a pale imitation of the groundbreaking director who invented zombie satire in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead, and then went on to full-on postmodern force with Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
05-24-2010 |
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MacGrubernew
Another movie from a Saturday Night Live sketch, this time set free from the constraints of Network Television and the usual PG-13 rating of Guaranteed Comedy Safety and Mediocrity.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joe MacLeod |
05-21-2010 |
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Just Like Starting Ogre: 'Shrek Forever After'
Shrek Forever After throws out the films’ history—and it’s an improvement.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
05-17-2010 |
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Tags: Shrek Forever After, Mike Mitchell
Shrek Matures: Bourgeoisie Critics are Opposed
The fourth installment in the animated Shrek franchise is the most polished example of the series.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
05-17-2010 |
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Tags: Shrek Forever After, Mike Mitchell
'The Trotsky': Tierney's Townnew
Jacob Tierney gives love to his hometown Montreal and Jay Baruchel in the high school reincarnation comedy The Trotsky.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Matt Semansky |
05-14-2010 |
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Tags: Jacob Tierney, The Trotsky
Very Weird, Mostly Goodnew
Director Ji-Woon Kim has fused Asian action with the spaghetti western in The Good, the Bad, the Weird.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
05-13-2010 |
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'Harry Brown': The Cool Side of Slownew
Michael Caine remains in full burn as Harry Brown.
North Bay Bohemian |
Richard von Busack |
05-11-2010 |
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What's So Funny 'Bout War, Greed, and Ignorance: Robin Hood Prequel is an Uphill Slog
For as muddled as its medieval politics are, thanks to Brian Helgeland's scattershot screenplay, director Ridley Scott's cloud-covered history of Robin Longstride's path to outlaw legend soars whenever Cate Blanchett takes the screen as Maid Marion.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
05-11-2010 |
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Tags: Robin Hood, Ridley Scott
'Babies'new
Filmmaker Thomas Balmes contrasts the lives of privileged babies with those in the developing world.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Harry Kloman |
05-10-2010 |
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'Vincere': Winning and Losing At Any Costnew
Benito Mussolini's delusions of grandeur reserved him his own personal corner of hell. Vincere, an epic of historical fiction, is heaven.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
05-05-2010 |
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Banksy is One Artful Dodgernew
Exit Through the Gift Shop excels in prankish creativity.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
05-04-2010 |
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Tags: Banksy, Exit Through the Gift Shop
'The Losers' Demonstrates the Good and Bad of Comic-Book Adaptationsnew
While the steady resurgence of the comics industry led to a decade’s worth of well-established superhero movies and iffy adaptations of high-profile graphic novels, The Losers is the rare exception that takes Hollywood a little deeper into comics.
Metro Pulse |
Nick Huinker |
05-03-2010 |
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Tags: The Losers, Sylvain White
Taking Pedophilia Seriously: The 'Nightmare' Grows Cold
More contemplative and thematically muscular than Wes Craven's 1984 original slasher flick, Samuel Bayer's updated version has a quieter surreal edge rooted more in suspense than in the former film's regular bloodletting.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
05-03-2010 |
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'Please Give' Isn't Just a Chick Flicknew
In its casual, disarming way, this movie is as deep and as grand a film as you’ll find in the multiplex this year and demands to break out of the gender ghetto.
Inland Empire Weekly |
Amy Nicholson |
04-29-2010 |
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Tags: Please Give, Nicole Holofcener
