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'Lions for Lambs': From a Lofty Liberal Lecternnew
Dramatic is a quality that Lions never comes close to achieving. It's a ponderous creation of sentimental high-mindedness and stilted evasiveness.
Tags: Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford
'Southland Tales': Dead on the 4th of Julynew
The maker of Donnie Darko goes funnily and frustratingly off the deep end.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
11-09-2007 |
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Tags: Richard Kelly, Southland Tales
Brothers in Harmnew
Yes, they want you to know it's a tragedy.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
11-08-2007 |
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True Hollywood Storynew
Gladiator director Ridley Scott glams up the life of Harlem heroin distributor Frank Lucas.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joe MacLeod |
11-08-2007 |
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Are You Totally Sick of Vince Vaughn Yet?new
As is the case with nearly every film he's made since he stopped giving a fuck about his integrity, your capacity to sit through the madcappish holiday extravaganza of Fred Claus can likely be extrapolated from your answer to that question.
The Portland Mercury |
Zac Pennington |
11-08-2007 |
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Tags: David Dobkin, Fred Claus
Even Bono Can't Ruin Joe Strummernew
The Future Is Unwritten is saved by an absolutely stunning second act that focuses on Strummer's post-Clash output, his painfully lonely lost years, his family, and the man's storied legacy following his sudden death in 2002 from an undiagnosed congenital heart defect.
The Portland Mercury |
Ezra Ace Caraeff |
11-08-2007 |
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Getting Drafted in 'Lions for Lambs'new
In his first turn in the director's chair since the political minefield of The Legend of Bagger Vance(?!?!), Robert Redford joins the well-intentioned, liberal baby-boomer chorus with his uniquely astute reaction to the War on Terror, Lions for Lambs.
The Portland Mercury |
Zac Pennington |
11-08-2007 |
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Tags: Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford
Robert Redford Gets Preachynew
Amid the torrent of similarly opportunistic fare coming out of Hollywood this fall, Lions for Lambs is the singularly sanctimonious, heavy-handed and counterproductive of the lot.
Tags: Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford
You Say You Want Imaginationnew
Across the Universe imagines the highlights of the tumultuous Vietnam era neatly restaged to song and dance.
Style Weekly |
Wayne Melton |
11-08-2007 |
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'Fred Claus': Ho-Ho-Humnew
Never once does this big spangly artificial tree of a movie look or smell natural.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
11-08-2007 |
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Tags: David Dobkin, Fred Claus
'Romance and Cigarettes': Bada-Bing, Gotta Dancenew
This intentionally unglamorous romp boasts a big-name cast, a brash disregard for mainstream expectations, and one paramount insight: Real men like pussy. If the word makes you recoil, this movie isn't for you.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-08-2007 |
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'Before The Devil Knows You're Dead': Family Businessnew
Sidney Lumet crime thriller shows it's all relative.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-08-2007 |
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Career Opportunitiesnew
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten and The Pixar Story paint revolutionary portraits.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-08-2007 |
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The Advocates on Screennew
Lions for Lambs and Darfur Now reveal why and how people take action.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
11-08-2007 |
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'No Country' is a Crime Movie for a World at Warnew
The way the Coen brothers' latest morphs from noir into contemporary-western moral struggle makes it deeper, funnier and even stranger than Fargo.
New York Press |
Armond White |
11-08-2007 |
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