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'The Cake Eaters': Not as Interesting as Cakenew
The Cake Eaters is another well-intentioned indie drama you don't need to see.
The Portland Mercury |
Alison Hallett |
03-26-2009 |
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The Green Card of Doom: 'Crossing Over'new
Crossing Over tries to make us feel bad about the unfair difficulties of becoming a US citizen, and also to make us remember how everybody in the world wants to become an American because, by golly, we're terrific! But if this movie is any indication, we're actually self-righteous, pompous bores.
The Portland Mercury |
Ned Lannamann |
03-26-2009 |
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'Gomorrah' Is Too Preachy for Its Own Goodnew
In his attempt to redefine mob movies, Matteo Garrone eschews many of the qualities that make cinema interesting and tantalizing. He focuses so squarely on his characters' sinful awfulness that he forgets it's often the sinners who lure the moviegoers.
'The Least of These' Looks at the Incarceration of Immigrant Familiesnew
To the list of bizarre, wasteful and cruel failures of the Department of Homeland Security under the Bush Administration, add this program to imprison children.
'March' of the Dingbatsnew
For a crass sex comedy, Miss March seems strangely self-neutering—quite literally, given the last-act revelation that one character was born without genitalia. Gentlemen, ask yourselves: Better or worse than a four-year coma?
C-Ville Weekly |
Jonathan Kiefer |
03-25-2009 |
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'Sunshine Cleaning' Is Too Neatnew
Mystifyingly buzzed-about at Sundance 2008, Christine Jeffs' Sunshine Cleaning is a serviceable but none-too-distinct take on the second-chance story. Also reviewed: The Edge of Love.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
03-24-2009 |
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'Monsters vs. Aliens' Avoids the Pixar Comparisons by Wallowing in Genre Pleasures
What works about Monsters vs. Aliens is when it is retro in a good way.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
03-23-2009 |
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John Malkovich Is Great; the Movie Is Gentlenew
Malkovich's Buck possesses what The Great Buck Howard lacks: the single-minded, lesson-free compulsion to entertain.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
03-23-2009 |
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'12' Examines Masculine Archetypes in Modern Russianew
Beleaguered ideals regarding compassion and freedom from prejudice were the subjects of the Americanski version of 12 Angry Men. Mikhalkov, best known for his 1994 Oscar-winning Burnt by the Sun, is more interested in the philosophical and political elements.
The Georgia Straight |
Ken Eisner |
03-23-2009 |
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Spy vs. Spy: Tony Gilroy’s 'Duplicity'new
Julia Roberts goes mano a mano with Clive Owen.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
03-20-2009 |
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'Last House on the Left' Remake Is Horrifying -- Not Necessarily in a Good Waynew
Trying to add sweetness and hope to sludge like this is like pouring a bag of sugar into raw sewage laced with cyanide. It's not going to help.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
03-19-2009 |
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Grotesque Syndicate: 'Gomorrah'new
You'll learn a thing or two from this bleak, difficult movie about the other Italian mafia.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
03-19-2009 |
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Doc Finds the Flaws in North America's Approach to Intellectual Propertynew
A new "open source" documentary is a look at the battle between copyright and "copyleft."
Fast Forward Weekly |
Lindsay Bowman |
03-19-2009 |
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'I Love You, Man,' But This Movie Sucksnew
The cliched plot and forced comedy of I Love You, Man are better suited to Dane Cook.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Alan Cho |
03-19-2009 |
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Paul Rudd Proves He Plays Gay Better Than Anyonenew
Hamburg's formulaic contrivance is an accidental metaphor for Hollywood's sit-com dishonesty.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-19-2009 |
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