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'An Education' is an Absorbing and Evocative Exploration of Womanhood

Danish director Lone Scherfig impeccably captures her film's early '60s cold war British setting with glorious attention to detail.
City Pulse  |  Cole Smithey  |  10-05-2009  |  Reviews

Simply Gallingnew

In his film directorial debut, acclaimed playwright/screenwriter/theater director Craig Lucas is done in by his own script, which becomes excessively icy and cruel.
SF Weekly  |  Jean Oppenheimer  |  11-23-2005  |  Reviews

Scarred Lives

The directorial debut of playwright and screenwriter Craig Lucas, The Dying Gaul is a slick, Hollywood-style vehicle powered by anti-establishment anger.
Washington City Paper  |  Mark Jenkins  |  11-04-2005  |  Reviews

Crash Landingnew

A film starring Jodie Foster as a mother who's either lost her daughter or her mind during a flight from Berlin to New York soars for an hour, then ends with a tailspin.
The Pitch  |  Robert Wilonsky  |  09-27-2005  |  Reviews

Swamp Thingnew

Though probably not intended, The Skeleton Key is one of 2005's funniest films, bested only by the first two-thirds of Wedding Crashers, all of The Aristocrats, and that part in Stealth where the airplane starts sassing Josh Lucas.
Phoenix New Times  |  Robert Wilonsky  |  08-15-2005  |  Reviews

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