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Limp Pianistnew
As long as you happen to like the title song -- which repeats something like a bazillion times in various versions throughout -- this field trip to Budapest proves engaging enough, if also a little limp.
Cleveland Scene |
Gregory Weinkauf |
05-04-2005 |
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Love Lettersnew
In this moving, deceptively simple film, a weary Chinese mailman, his son and their dog take three days to complete a grueling trek to remote villages in south Hunan.
Cleveland Scene |
Bill Gallo |
02-02-2005 |
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Cleveland Film Commission May Be Facing Its Curtain Callnew
Back in 1998, when Chris Carmody founded the Cleveland Film Commission, his goal was to rival Pittsburgh's $25-million-a-year film industry within five years. Unfortunately for the local economy, he failed to live up to his own hype.
Cleveland Scene |
James Renner |
02-02-2005 |
Movies
Unlucky 13new
Ethan Hawke heads up a star-studded cast trapped in an unconvincing remake of John Carpenter's grungy 1976 movie of the same name.
Cleveland Scene |
Robert Wilonsky |
01-26-2005 |
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Is It Over Yet?new
Ice Cube's family-oriented movie is all a big, boring failure of slapstick and degradation. Of course, that's not to say your kids won't like it.
Cleveland Scene |
Melissa Levine |
01-26-2005 |
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Phantom Menacenew
Joel Schumacher's version of a theater classic gets a tragic ending of its own.
Cleveland Scene |
Bill Gallo |
12-29-2004 |
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Sea of Loathenew
Wes Anderson takes Bill Murray out to sea and strands him there.
Cleveland Scene |
Robert Wilonsky |
12-29-2004 |
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Focking Wonderfulnew
When your movie gets riotous laughter out of endless utterances of the word "Focker," it doesn't have to try very hard. But Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman light this film on fire.
Cleveland Scene |
Robert Wilonsky |
12-29-2004 |
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Faker's Dozennew
Unlike its predecessor, a remake that clung to a hoary heist formula, the sequel contains ample pleasures, most of which amuse as the result of surprises both great and small.
Cleveland Scene |
Luke Y. Thompson |
12-13-2004 |
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His Will Be Donenew
In this era of muckraking left-wing documentaries, The Inheritance offers a fascinating fictionalized look at what cutthroat capitalism can do to conscience.
Cleveland Scene |
Luke Y. Thompson |
12-06-2004 |
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Tags: Per Fly, inheritance
Closer to Finenew
Mike Nichols' new film might be taken for outright soap opera -- or soft-core porn -- were it not for the sophisticated gleam of its well-heeled London desperadoes and its viciously dazzling dialogue.
Cleveland Scene |
Bill Gallo |
12-06-2004 |
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Tags: Mike Nichols, Closer
Skip Itnew
Christmas With the Kranks offers an obnoxiously condescending portrait of Regular People who live in the red states and wouldn't think of getting blue at Christmastime.
Cleveland Scene |
Robert Wilonsky |
11-29-2004 |
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No Dicking Aroundnew
Bill Condon, faithful to several texts about Alfred Kinsey, brings the man to life in this affectionate, warm, and surprisingly funny movie -- at least, till the hordes of righteousness descend upon the famous sex researcher like locusts on a fertile field.
Cleveland Scene |
Robert Wilonsky |
11-29-2004 |
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Tags: Bill Condon, Kinsey
An Epic Story Turns Human, Falliblenew
This broad, bold, and ambitious film by Oliver Stone presents itself as a fairly straightforward endeavor, but its rhythms quickly go strange, while its participants hobble and flail about, remarkably out of sync yet hell-bent on not falling down, no matter what, for nearly three hours.
Cleveland Scene |
Gregory Weinkauf |
11-29-2004 |
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Tags: Oliver Stone, Alexander
Green Archersnew
To call Undertow a '70s-style revenge movie is accurate, but those unfamiliar with the director's style may wonder why it takes so long to get to the action.
Cleveland Scene |
Luke Y. Thompson |
11-12-2004 |
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