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Minds Not Wastednew
An admirable spirit of social uplift animates The Great Debaters.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
01-11-2008 |
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Uwe Boll Bores Againnew
In the Name of the King is long on visually confused, thrill-free action and short on everything else that makes a movie pleasurable. Except CGI-enhanced scenery.
NOW Magazine |
Andrew Dowler |
01-11-2008 |
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Wedding Crapper: Rom Com Coffin Gets Another Nail
Agonizing, flaccid, and about as romantic as bottle of flat champagne “27 Dresses” is a perfect example of the stereotypical Hollywood romantic comedies that Judd Apatow’s “40 Year Old Virgin” and “Knocked Up” successfully disemboweled.
Tags: 27 Dresses, Anne Fletcher
Hollywood Product: 'The Bucket List'new
The bottom line: Director Rob Reiner significantly improves from disasters such as Rumor Has It for this predictable yet good-natured comedy that makes dialogue like "Find the joy in your life" go down surprisingly easy.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-10-2008 |
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Tags: Rob Reiner, The Bucket List
'The Orphanage': Spirited Awaynew
Spanish director's Casper is no friendly ghost.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-10-2008 |
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Tags: Juan Antonio Bayona, The Orphanage
'There Will Be Blood': American Nightmarenew
Paul Thomas Anderson sees blind ambition in his latest epic.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
01-10-2008 |
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A Haunted Orphanage? No way!new
Screenwriter Sergio G. Sánchez and director Juan Antonio Bayona are content to dig up and exploit every worn-out horror cliché they can think of -- which'd be a problem if The Orphanage wasn't so goddamn scary.
The Portland Mercury |
Erik Henriksen |
01-10-2008 |
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Tags: Juan Antonio Bayona, The Orphanage
The Need for New Scare Tacticsnew
Yet another boring J-horror translation proves we don't do horror right.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
01-10-2008 |
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Tags: Eric Valette, One Missed Call
Korean Fusionnew
Though specific to his country's cultural situation, Korean director Hong Sang-soo's Woman on the Beach offers flavors of quarterlife angst and romantic insecurity for which American audiences clearly have an insatiable appetite.
New York Press |
Benjamin Sutton |
01-10-2008 |
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Tags: Hong Sang-soo, Women on the Beach
No Country for Unconscious Peoplenew
John Sayles puts the imaginative life of African-Americans on the screen better than most.
New York Press |
Armond White |
01-10-2008 |
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Tags: Honeydripper, John Sayles
Leaky Vesselnew
Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman almost make the ridiculous Bucket List script work.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
01-10-2008 |
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Tags: Rob Reiner, The Bucket List
L.A. Storynew
Richard Kelly's latest is sure to let down fans of Donnie Darko -- and movies in general.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
01-10-2008 |
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Tags: Richard Kelly, Southland Tales
Lifting the Veilnew
If we've learned anything in the past five or so years of our foreign policy, it's that we should know a few things about a country -- its history, people, culture, and religion -- before bombing the crap out of it.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
01-10-2008 |
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'Persepolis' Turns a Graphic Novel into Animation Classicnew
The film does a first-rate job of outlining what it is like to be a teenager in a religious dictatorship, and it addresses this slow suffocation in a way any self-obsessed American teen could understand.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
01-10-2008 |
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Age Against the Machinenew
Time is the enemy in Youth Without Youth and The Bucket List.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
01-10-2008 |
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