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Ask for a Recountnew
Kevin Costner’s new comedy may be timely, but that doesn’t make it funny or worthwhile.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-01-2008 |
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Tags: Joshua Michael Stern, Swing Vote
Oscar Winner Can't Redeem This Self-Help Melodramanew
Like a pilgrim seeking salvation, Ripple Effect is awash in self-important questions, becoming an exercise in pop mysticism which stars Forest Whitaker.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
08-01-2008 |
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Tags: Philippe Caland, Ripple Effect
This 'Mummy' Jumps the Sharknew
This third outing makes it abundantly clear that this once-fresh mummy franchise is dead in everything but name.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-01-2008 |
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An Odd Couple Finds a Twilight Lovenew
A septuagenarian love story from Spain, Elsa & Fred will likely warm the cockles of your heart, even though it’s hardly the stuff of great romance.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
08-01-2008 |
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Tags: Elsa & Fred, Marcos Carnevale
God Is in the Detailsnew
It's a film, not a miniseries, but this rendition's attention to the steep divides of class and religion in prewar England remains as sharply etched as ever.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-01-2008 |
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'Swing Vote': Bud, Wisernew
Kevin Costner stars as the world's least interesting man.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
08-01-2008 |
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'Frozen River': A Hard-Knock Lifenew
Struggling single mom skates on thin ice in Sundance prizewinner.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
08-01-2008 |
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Tags: Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
'The X-Files: I Want to Believe' is Not a Movienew
It is, instead, a pastiche of eye-roll-inducing clichés, pointless conversations, logic-defying coincidences and a production that, from beginning to end, is so lazy, sloppy and utterly idiotic that one thing is quite clear: It really is the perfect crime.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Emiliano Garcia-Sarnoff |
08-01-2008 |
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It's Time to Wrap Up 'Mummy' Franchise and Bury It for a Long Spellnew
The script lifts from sources that were themselves tired liftings from other sources. The funniest lines don't appear to have been intended to be funny. The action sequences are flat and unexciting, and the behavior of the CGI Yetis briefly slides into Airplane!-level reality.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
08-01-2008 |
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Jean Lemire Captures Ice Shelf Changes in 'The Last Continent'new
The one-year mission of a 13-person crew seemingly led by French-Canadian filmmaker Lemire is to witness rapid changes to the southern ice shelf.
The Georgia Straight |
Staff |
08-01-2008 |
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Boys Among Mennew
Step Brothers is funny enough--but the duo of Ferrell and Reilly can do better.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
07-31-2008 |
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Tags: Adam McKay, Step Brothers
Home Sweet Homenew
Brideshead Revisited suffers from having 11 hours worth of story crammed into 135 minutes.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
07-31-2008 |
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Brideshead's Period Appeal Still Charmsnew
Sir John Mortimer was beside himself over rumors that the feature-length adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited might ignore religion, homosexuality and Aloysius. (Mortimer wrote the screenplay for the 1981 TV miniseries adaptation.)
Orlando Weekly |
Liz Langley |
07-31-2008 |
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Brendan Fraser Meets Another Mummy ... and Some Yetisnew
Based on The Mummy franchise alone, it would be real easy to hate Brendan Fraser ... but, damn if the dude isn't totally harmless and likeable.
The Portland Mercury |
Courtney Ferguson |
07-31-2008 |
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Courtney Hunt's Simplistic Look at Poverty is a Perfect Example of ‘Smudged-Doorframe Cinema’new
The threshold from which director-writer Hunt views her characters' hard times makes them look more pathetic than necessary.
New York Press |
Armond White |
07-31-2008 |
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