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Review: Margin Callnew
A well-crafted and -acted disaster movie, 'Margin Call' is like 'Titanic,' except the financial system is the boat and the characters are the crew AND the iceberg.
Kevin Spacey as Casino Jack Abramoffnew
George Hickenlooper's film takes a novel, comic approach, but it isn't compelling enough to interest those who got their fill from Alex Gibney's documentary Casino Jack and the United States of Money.
Tags: Casino Jack, Kevin Spacey
Exploits of Jack Abramoff Are as Funny as Cancernew
A black comedy about corrupt, money-grubbing lobbyists fleecing Native Americans and batting on-the-take congressmen around like rag dolls may have been funny a few years ago.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
03-02-2011 |
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Superman’s Blue Clothesnew
This version is merely a souped-up, CGI-enhanced extension, with fancy new tights on the hero that look like they were skinned from some kind of red, yellow and blue intergalactic reptile.
Style Weekly |
Wayne Melton |
06-29-2006 |
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Splish Splash, It's a Bathnew
The early reviews for Beyond the Sea have been so hateful that a latecomer to the bashing bash is tempted to head straight for the spiked eggnog and let the man pass without further abuse.
East Bay Express |
Robert Wilonsky |
01-03-2005 |
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Well-Furnished Failurenew
Kevin Spacey's biopic, supposedly about Bobby Darin, ends up being more about Spacey.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
12-30-2004 |
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Tags: Kevin Spacey, beyond the sea
Spacey Serves up Ham and Cheese in Darin Biopicnew
This insufferable vanity project is most excruciating for revealing that beneath the super cool, ironic distance of Kevin Spacey's actorly street cred beats the heart of a hambone.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
12-30-2004 |
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Tags: Kevin Spacey, beyond the sea
Bobby Darin's Show-Biz Race Against Timenew
More "Splish" than "Splash," this biopic about the life of pop crooner Bobby Darin is practically a one-man Kevin Spacey show.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
12-29-2004 |
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Tags: Kevin Spacey, beyond the sea
