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David Mamet Knows Kung Funew
The ghosts of the Shaw Brothers haunt this tale of Mike Terry, a painfully noble Los Angeles jiu-jitsu instructor who, through a series of increasingly unlikely occurrences, gets sucked into a world of sketchy movie producers and unethical mixed martial arts fighters.
The Portland Mercury |
Erik Henriksen |
05-09-2008 |
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David Mamet Shows Jiu Jitsu Some Lovenew
Redbelt is a likable distraction, especially for Mamet's trademark staccato dialogue and the deft choreography of its martial-arts sequences.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
05-07-2008 |
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David Mamet Creates a Serious 'Karate Kid'new
But Mamet's self-seriousness stifles Redbelt's cinematic potential.
New York Press |
Armond White |
05-01-2008 |
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Screenwriter Daniel Taplitz Makes Screwball Comedy Less Screwynew
Working outside of mainstream chick flicks (You've Got Mail), hipster flicks (Before Sunrise) and chump flicks (Knocked Up), Taplitz has pursued questions of attraction and commitment through personal language and neurotic obsession.
New York Press |
Armond White |
04-17-2008 |
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The Wiznew
Those who consider director Hayao Miyazaki a master not only forgive the sameness of his movies but also celebrate his use of children's fairy tales to underscore the ordinariness of evil in our adult world.
Miami New Times |
Robert Wilonsky |
06-28-2005 |
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Vile With a Smilenew
In this fairly faithful adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's trenchant novel Vile Bodies, our giddy hosts are the eponymous "bright young things," the glammy, restless, 24-hour party people of 1930s England, busily getting bombed before busily getting bombed.
Miami New Times |
Gregory Weinkauf |
09-14-2004 |
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