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Complicated Charactersnew
Flawed people in flawed relationships make for a stimulating screenplay in Andrew Wagner's adaptation of Brian Morton's novel.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
12-17-2007 |
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De Palma's 'Redacted' Indicts All of Usnew
To date, only 28 movie theaters in the country have shown the astonishingly apropos Redacted, which puts the blame for al-Mahmudiyah not on a few renegade soldiers, but where it belongs: on the American people.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
12-14-2007 |
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Tags: Brian De Palma, Redacted
Measly 'Munksnew
Dear Santa, I've been a good girl. How could you let this movie happen?
NOW Magazine |
Deidre Swain |
12-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Alvin and the Chipmunks, Tim Hill
Staid Script and Direction Ground 'The Kite Runner'new
I'm worried. Marc Forster, the humorless auteur behind Monster's Ball and Finding Neverland, is directing the next James Bond movie.
NOW Magazine |
John Harkness |
12-14-2007 |
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Tags: Marc Forster, The Kite Runner
All Kidman Asidenew
Kidman's The Golden Compass is passable, but skip her Wedding.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
12-14-2007 |
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'The Kite Runner' Doesn't Flynew
Kites fly high over the San Francisco Bay and Kabul (okay, China), but not much else soars in Marc Forster's flaccid adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's vivid 2002 novel, which covers three decades of Afghanistan's misery under serial totalitarian rule.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
12-14-2007 |
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Tags: Marc Forster, The Kite Runner
Will Smith: The Stuff of 'Legend'new
Moment for moment, Smith is simply dazzling, and for all the undeniably impressive work the actor has done on his physique for this role, what's most appealing about Smith is his native intelligence -- the way you see him thinking his way through a role -- and his capacity for human weakness.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
12-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Francis Lawrence, I Am Legend
'For the Bible Tells Me So' Preaches to the Convertednew
A new documentary bumbles a strong message.
Arkansas Times |
Fritz Brantley |
12-14-2007 |
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Wild 'Youth'new
Coppola's Romanian rhapsody is wacky but somehow absorbing.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
12-14-2007 |
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Mr. Smith Goes to Zombietownnew
An old story gets a fresh prince in the latest adaptation of I Am Legend.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
12-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Francis Lawrence, I Am Legend
Burn on the Bio
Walk Hard takes a hilarious scalpel to the celebrity biopic.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
12-13-2007 |
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Strop the Music
Sweeney Todd delivers grand spectacle, but the tunes could use some sharpening up.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
12-13-2007 |
Reviews
Crease is the Wordnew
Ken Scott's screenplay was reportedly fact-checked by Richard himself before he died in 2000 and cinematographer Pierre Gill's hockey sequences faithfully depict the game play, equipment, and atmosphere of late-'40s and early-'50s hockey. In that sense, it's more historical film than drama.
Washington City Paper |
Matthew Borlik |
12-13-2007 |
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Love in the Time of Call Centersnew
Outsourced screened at this year's DC Labor Filmfest under the guise of a globalization parable, yet no inconvenient truths about the exportation of American jobs are revealed in the film, which is actually a sweet-natured, cross-cultural romantic
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-13-2007 |
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Tags: John Jeffcoat, Outsourced
City Hellnew
I Am Legend, the third film based on Richard Matheson's 1954 science fiction novel, moves as speedily as the infected freaks who terrorize the story's apparent last man standing.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-13-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Francis Lawrence, I Am Legend
