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Manhattan Mayhemnew
A strong cast elevates The Nanny Diaries above the usual end-of-summer dreck.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
08-29-2007 |
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'Once' is a Movie Miraclenew
This simple, low-budget, musical love story is positively captivating.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
08-29-2007 |
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Tags: John Carney, Once
'Revolution Summer' Runs on Anxietynew
Featuring a score by Jonathan Richman and real-life footage of protesters and riot cops, Montalbano's film is lightly plotted and heavily atmospheric.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Lynn Rapoport |
08-29-2007 |
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Emotion Trumps Class in 'Live-In Maid'new
The Argentinean film relies heavily on a very exact choreography between the two characters: a formerly famous and wealthy woman in decline and her maid.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Maria Komodore |
08-29-2007 |
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Tags: Jorge Gaggero, Live-In Maid
Sweet 'Rocket Science'new
This is a funny, touching movie I would recommend to anyone.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
08-29-2007 |
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Tags: Jeffrey Blitz, rocket science
'Balls of Fury': Who Needs Jokes? They've Got Ping-Pong!new
This movie is the sort of comedy in which things are not funny because they are ironic or funny because they're absurd or even funny because they're strangely juxtaposed, but simply funny because they're there.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
08-29-2007 |
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Tags: Ben Garant, Balls of Fury
'Moliere': Acting Classesnew
Laurent Tirard's new romantic comedy endeavors to imagine the formative years in Moliere's life the way John Madden's Shakespeare in Love treated the great English bard in his youth.
Tags: Laurent Tirard, Moliere
Instead of 'Delirious,' How About 'Woozy'new
There are positive reviews of Delirious -- they are wrong.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
08-29-2007 |
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Tags: Delirious, Tom DiCillo
'Ladron que Roba a Ladron': E Pluribus Pratfallnew
An American comedy for the other America.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
08-29-2007 |
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'September Dawn' Just Feels Made-upnew
The story of the Fancher party's massacre at the hands of the Utah Mormon militia, with help from manipulated local Indians, needs nothing more than a deft telling of fear and discrimination in an innocent field -- unfortunately, here it receives unnecessary melodrama.
Baltimore City Paper |
Wendy Ward |
08-28-2007 |
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Tags: Christopher Cain, September Dawn
'Right At Your Door': Duct and Coverednew
The movie is so intense for most of its running time that the contrived conclusion may leave you scratching your head rather than desperately reaching for the Valium.
Tags: Chris Gorak, Right at Your Door
'Balls of Fury': Made for Walken
Like its deadpan costar, the film often settles for what's funny in theory.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-28-2007 |
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Tags: Balls of Fury, Robert Ben Garant
'The 11th Hour': Hour of Powernew
If the movie's presentation is unexciting (and thus a lot less likely to excite major media and make inroads on shopping malls), the ideas it puts forth are both more frightening and more energizing than those in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
08-28-2007 |
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'The Devil Came on Horseback': Devil Advocatesnew
Brian Steidle, the former U.S. Marine whose chilling photographs brought the horrors of Darfur region to the American public, serves as a compelling a central figure through whose eyes the audience can forge a connection with a complex and sometimes confounding subject.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
08-28-2007 |
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Rod Lurie Takes Jackson and Hartnett Nine Rounds
Lurie puts another feather in his directing hat with an absorbing character study about a daily newspaper writer who takes a shortcut to success only to discover that, like the subject of his career-saving article, he is not the man he thought himself to be.
Tags: Resurrecting the Champ, Rod Lurie
