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Brothers Brings the War Homenew
Director Jim Sheridan's adaptation has a contemplative steadiness far more common in European films than American ones.
The Portland Mercury |
Alison Hallett |
12-07-2009 |
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You'll Probably Feel Like You've Seen Brothers Before, Even if You Haven'tnew
Ask me about Brothers 2009 four years from now and you'll probably have to press this very review into my hands as proof that it passed before my eyes.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Mike D'Angelo |
12-04-2009 |
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Tags: Jim Sheridan, Brothers
Bum Rapnew
Rare is the movie that so perfectly critiques itself; 50 Cent sounds articulate in his raps, but as a lead actor, he talks like his mouth is filled with food.
Houston Press |
Luke Y. Thompson |
11-14-2005 |
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Hip-Hop Hypocrisiesnew
Determined to star in his own 8 Mile, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson comes up a day late and a dollar short.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-11-2005 |
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Outsider Drama
Turning his multiplatinum Get Rich or Die Tryin' into a movie is a logical way for 50 Cent to expand his franchise, but that doesn't guarantee he can enlarge his abilities along with it.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-10-2005 |
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It Died Trying
The problem with this 50 Cent biopic glamorizing the grit of the rapper's life isn't so much that the star is a bad actor as he isn't any kind of actor at all.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
11-10-2005 |
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50 Cent Short 2 Bitsnew
The film story of Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's tough road to success is so melodramatic that if it weren't real it would be laughable.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-10-2005 |
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