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'Summer Hours': French Feelingsnew
The final third of Summer Hours makes the film worthy -- but audiences may not have enough patience.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
08-12-2009 |
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The Dardenne Brothers Deliver More Visual Poetry in 'Lorna's Silence'new
The Belgian film team of Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne do small things profoundly. Their new movie, titled Lorna's Silence, makes its strongest, most persuasive moments when Albanian immigrant Lorna silently weighs her options and her moral choices.
New York Press |
Armond White |
07-31-2009 |
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'The Hurt Locker' Shows a Slower, but No Less Scary, Side of Warnew
With fierce performances by a largely unknown cast and restrained and effective direction, The Hurt Locker helps complete a picture the nightly news cannot hope to show.
Boise Weekly |
Jeremiah Wierenga |
07-29-2009 |
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'Lemon Tree': Uprootednew
Lemon Tree is many-sided thing, including an astute political drama, but the film ultimately is about two women forced by circumstance into a rivalry.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
07-16-2009 |
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Let 'Brothers' Take Time to Bloomnew
There's a particular satisfaction in the way the pieces of The Brothers Bloom shift and circle around each other, the story woven by one character reflecting the story given to us by writer-direction Rian Johnson.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
07-16-2009 |
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This 'Merry Gentleman' Is a Hit Man and Former Batmannew
Michael Keaton directed and stars in this glum story about a suicidal hit man and the woman who may save him or prove to be his undoing.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
07-16-2009 |
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'The Hurt Locker': Kathryn Bigelow's Ticket to the Oscarsnew
This film is a career best for Bigelow: tense, compressed, and often wordless for page after page of action. With the field opened up for 10 nominees this year, this movie has a lock on an Oscar nom.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
07-13-2009 |
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Battered But Not Broken, Jean-Jacques Beineix Returnsnew
The embattled Parisian director brings a reissue, a retrospective and a project in progress.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
07-10-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jean-Jacques Beineix, drama films
'Cheri' Works as a Wax Museum of Genresnew
It takes a prim-and-properness that few Americans can fathom to make an R-rated film about a hooker and her lover and not display heaps of sweat-covered skin, but that's the headspace that master Stephen Frears inhabits in Cheri.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
06-25-2009 |
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'Away We Go' Is Chicken Soup for the Hipster Soulnew
Away We Go is an unequivocal triumph for Sam Mendes, above all else because the honest moment he uncovers amidst this series of vignettes packs a wallop.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
06-25-2009 |
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'The Room' Takes Up Residence in Little Rocknew
If Levi Agee has his way, the melodrama-turned-cult-hit The Room will screen indefinitely in Little Rock.
Arkansas Times |
Lindsey Millar |
06-25-2009 |
Movies
'Sin Nombre' Gets an Under-Told Story Rightnew
Its utter lack of romanticism about riding the rails doesn't preclude Sin Nombre from finding heart in the land it traverses or between its characters.
Arkansas Times |
Sam Eifling |
06-25-2009 |
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A Perfectly Charming Rom-Com Couplenew
Away We Go is no masterpiece, and it aims far lower than it thinks it does, but for all that, it's passably decent.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
06-25-2009 |
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'Little Ashes' Burns Time Instead of Blazingnew
Little Ashes is as pretty as an illustrated picture book, with wind-blown fields of Andalusian grass and gorgeous cliff-side seascapes, but has only about as much to say.
Boise Weekly |
Jeremiah Wierenga |
06-24-2009 |
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An Outrage Porn and a Decorously Hammy Frou-Frounew
The Stoning of Soraya M. is cheap and degrading and it stinks from here to Tehran. Meanwhile, Cheri is an insubstantial bit of fluff.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
06-24-2009 |
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