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'I've Loved You So Long' Registers with a Range of Dramatic Magnitude
Kristin Scott Thomas gives a beautifully transcendent performance as Juliette, a woman who goes to live with her slightly younger sister Lea and her family after serving 15 years in prison for murder.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
10-25-2008 |
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Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks Keep 'Zack and Miri' Watchable
Kevin Smith hasn't matured enough to actually make a good comedy, but he has accrued enough casting wisdom to elevate his latest homegrown material with the effervescent Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
10-25-2008 |
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'W.': Bush Whackednew
Oliver Stone takes on the most incompetent president in history.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
10-24-2008 |
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'The Last Mistress': Pretentious Liaisonsnew
Once again, Catherine Breillat is unintentionally funny, or, if funny on purpose, then she's really pulled something off.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
10-24-2008 |
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'Synecdoche, New York' Keeps Me Guessingnew
Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut may not be everyone's cup of tea. It's really quite brilliant, but it's also so difficult and so emotionally downbeat that it's hard to characterize it as "entertaining."
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
10-24-2008 |
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Mike Leigh Triumphs with the Uncharacteristically Hopeful Happy-Go-Luckynew
Happy-Go-Lucky seems in tune with what will almost certainly be an Obama presidency: it is a film rife with hope and glory.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
10-24-2008 |
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Tags: Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
'Pride and Glory' Covers Old Groundnew
This film will evoke a number of sensations, many of them intentional: horror, sorrow, anger. But Pride and Glory will undoubtedly also inspire some unintentional ones. Like déjà vu.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
10-24-2008 |
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'Pride and Glory': A Meat-and-Potatoes Thriller with Very Little Meatnew
While Pride benefits from a decent lead performance by the always-dependable Edward Norton, it otherwise plods and lumbers its way through an overly familiar story about corruption and loyalty in law enforcement.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Josh Bell |
10-24-2008 |
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First Shot: 'The Hanoi Hilton'new
Until we read of Warner Brothers' decision to delay release of The Hanoi Hilton, we had no idea Sen. McCain had done time in a Vietnamese prison. Wonder why that hasn’t come up yet.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-23-2008 |
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Stereotypes are Somewhat Ignored in 'Save Me'new
Save Me plays like a cross between an after-school special, a Lifetime Network cautionary tale and an episode of Queer as Folk. Sound good? Then you're certain to give it two snaps up with a twist.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Emiliano Garcia-Sarnoff |
10-23-2008 |
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Tags: Robert Cary, Save Me
Angelina Jolie is Mother on a Mission in Clint Eastwood's Latestnew
Changeling isn't suspenseful: It's creepy. Lacking the historical veracity of De Palma's Black Dahlia, its style is a bizarre form of old-school storytelling, mixing masochistic dread with ugly reportage.
New York Press |
Armond White |
10-23-2008 |
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Tags: Clint Eastwood, Changeling
'Fear(s) of the Dark': Parts of a Holenew
Fear(s) shortcoming(s) reveal the omnibus film's illusion of intricacy.
New York Press |
Simon Abrams |
10-23-2008 |
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Tags: Charles Burns, Fear(s) of the Dark
'Pride and Glory' and 'The Unknown Woman': Crime-Honored Traditionsnew
A pair of films get some extra mileage from thriller retreads.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-23-2008 |
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Madonna's 'Filth and Wisdom' is Another Unlucky Starnew
Seeking to amuse and enlighten, Filth feels joyless and pretentious, yet empty. There will be worse 2008 movies. Probably none will make their makers seem quite so smugly unpleasant.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
10-23-2008 |
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Tags: Madonna, Filth and Wisdom
A Slice of Past Lives in 'A Girl Cut in Two'new
Veteran French filmmaker Claude Chabrol re-imagines the Stanford White murder.
Tags: Claude Chabrol, A Girl Cut in Two
