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'Speed Racer' is So Shallow It's Scarynew
There are no hidden depths in a cartoon originally translated from the Japanese as Mach GoGoGo. And, to their credit, directors Andy and Larry Wachowski have not tried to find any.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
05-07-2008 |
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Heavy Meta: Smiling Through 'Iron Man'new
Neither narcotic nor hallucinatory in form, Favreau's film still bestows behavior and awareness and small smirking joys within the display of the genius of a self-involved id-on-the-run, tactile, motile, in-the-moment Robert Downey, Jr.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
05-07-2008 |
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Tags: Jon Favreau, Iron Man
Misplaced Cell Phones and Lies Create a Twisty Thriller in 'Deception'new
If you can handle another fatal attraction, Deception ambles along companionably, pretending, if not quite succeeding, to be smarter than it is.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Al Hoff |
05-05-2008 |
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'Speed Racer': The Wachowskis Make Summer Family Fun
The Wachowski Brothers achieve a divine vision of psychedelic visual ecstasy, while digging deep into a campy comic/dramatic tone that speaks to audiences of all ages.
'Graduation': Bank Robbery for Dummiesnew
Shot with all the HD video artistry of an infomercial, Graduation is a CliffsNotes heist movie, apparently written from the video-box blurbs on a stroll through Blockbuster.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
05-05-2008 |
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'Speed Racer' Goes Off Track
Speed Racer isn't as simple as you might think -- and that's the problem.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
05-05-2008 |
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'Made of Honor' Comes Made to Insultnew
It's the dude version of My Best Friend's Wedding, without the implied judgment that made Julia Roberts seem like kind of an awful person by the end of it.
NOW Magazine |
Norman Wilner |
05-02-2008 |
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Escape is Just the Beginning for Harold and Kumarnew
The somewhat dynamic duo and comedian Doug Benson offer stoner comedies on, er, high-per drive.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
05-02-2008 |
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'Deception': Zero Sum Gamenew
Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor play with numbers.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
05-02-2008 |
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Tags: Deception, Marcel Langenegger
Meeting Jason Segelnew
Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a comedic balancing act of lovely proportions.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
05-02-2008 |
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Forging Aheadnew
The Counterfeiters is a refreshingly spare morality tale that adds something new to a darkly familiar chapter of our history.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
05-02-2008 |
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'Fugitive Pieces' Adaptation Sucks the Poetry Out of a Holocaust Survival Talenew
Canadian filmmaker Jeremy Podeswa has given it the old college try, but in pursuit of tact and sensitivity, he has hollowed out the novel's urgency -- its unflinching confrontation with the horrors of 20th-century history -- in favor of a vaguely spiritual morbidity that slides into mere pathos.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
05-02-2008 |
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Jon Favreau's 'Iron Man' Has a Heartnew
Rather than cutting directly to the chase, it takes its time to involve us in the characters, who are relatively three-dimensional as comic book movies go, and who are played by the kinds of actors who know how to make a lot out of not very much.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
05-02-2008 |
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'Then She Found Me' is a Well-Made, Bittersweet Motherhood Dramanew
Fertility, and its opposite, are suddenly a bit of a Hollywood hot topic. While Tina Fey's Baby Mama runs with the comic approach to the subject, Helen Hunt's Then She Found Me is a much more bittersweet dramatic take.
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
05-02-2008 |
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Tags: Helen Hunt, Then She Found Me
'Iron Man' Hits All the Requisite Superhero Beatsnew
Summer-blockbuster season kicks off adequately and predictably with Iron Man, a perfectly entertaining superhero movie that fulfills all the requirements of its genre admirably, but never rises beyond the level of baseline satisfaction.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Josh Bell |
05-02-2008 |
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Tags: Jon Favreau, Iron Man
