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Too Bad Diane English's 'The Women' Remake is So Difficult to Watchnew
English's modern sarcasm is why The Women fails.
New York Press |
Armond White |
09-11-2008 |
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Alan Ball's 'Towelhead' is Predictably All Wetnew
Towelhead is the worst movie of its kind since Little Children.
New York Press |
Armond White |
09-11-2008 |
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The Coen Brothers' Love of Idiosyncrasy is at Its Best in This America-skewering Farcenew
Burn After Reading is a pie-in-the-face comedy. You don't know what hit you until it's over.
New York Press |
Armond White |
09-11-2008 |
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'Burn After Reading': A Country for Ridiculous Mennew
Burn After Reading hearkens back to Coen classics Oh Brother Where Art Thou and The Big Lebowski, films propelled inexorably forward by bizarre characters and slashing humor.
The Coen Brothers' Latest is an Entertaining Triflenew
Burn After Reading's madcap tone recalls Coen projects like The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, although it doesn’t reach the heights of sublime absurdity that those movies (especially Lebowski) achieved.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Josh Bell |
09-11-2008 |
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'Sixty Six' is More Than Just a Coming-of-age Movienew
It'd be easy to look at it as a coming-of-age film, or a Jewish film, or even a foreign film (since it's British, and they talk funny). But to do so would be to disregard a treat of a movie that features some sharp performances.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
09-10-2008 |
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Tags: Paul Weiland, Sixty Six
'Burn After Reading' is No Lebowskinew
The writing is as solid as you'd hope, though the humor in this story of two bumbling gym employees who accidentally blackmail an ex-CIA agent and immediately get in over their heads with national-security heavies is mostly dry, situational, and low-key.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
09-10-2008 |
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'The Women': The Vagina Dialoguesnew
Chick flick lacks girl power.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-10-2008 |
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Tags: Diane English, The Women
'Blackbird' Resembles 'Rashomon' Except the Victim is a Childnew
A critical success in Edinburgh, London and New York, this Olivier Award-winning drama places characters Ray and Una in the filthy breakroom of Ray's employer for 90 minutes to air their dirty laundry.
Willamette Week |
Ben Waterhouse |
09-10-2008 |
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Cthulhu Shows You Can Go Home Againnew
But you will be raped by Tori Spelling.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
09-10-2008 |
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Life Goes On 'I Served the King of England'new
In many ways, Menzel's latest serves as a bookend to that early masterpiece, Closely Watched Trains, beginning with another wide-eyed youth on another train platform, his personal desires consuming his entire attention as the Nazis march in just offscreen.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
09-09-2008 |
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'Disaster Movie' Has That Not So Fresh Feelingnew
The pomposity of big-budget B movies can certainly be taken down a notch, but the writing/directing team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer rely too much on trailer moments for their broad comedy.
Baltimore City Paper |
Serena Donadoni |
09-09-2008 |
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'Burn After Reading': Great Expectations
Don't hate on Burn After Reading for being a merely good Coen brothers movie.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-09-2008 |
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'Transsiberian' Raises Hitchcocknew
Old Alfred gets worthy nods in Brad Anderson's winning suspenser.
Metro Times |
Jeff Meyers |
09-09-2008 |
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Tags: Brad Anderson, Transsiberian
'Elegy' Looks at Agingnew
A professor (Ben Kingsley) falls for a younger woman (Penelope Cruz) and discovers his insecurities with aging in Elegy.
Tags: Elegy, Isabel Coixet
