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'American Gangster' Shows Crime Doesn't Paynew
The film is quite a high-caliber affair, with a star-studded cast and close attention to period details -- but it's overlong, a little too morally precise, and spends too much time on Russell Crowe's character, who is hardly as interesting as Denzel Washington's smooth, sinister schemer.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
10-31-2007 |
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Tags: American Gangster, Ridley Scott
The Great Actor Mix-up of 2007new
Ryan Gosling is David Arquette in Lars and the Real Girl, director Craig Gillespie's follow-up to his acclaimed (cough) debut, Mr. Woodcock.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
10-31-2007 |
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'King Corn' Examines What Health is Worthnew
This documentary follows the directors as they arrange to farm an acre of corn in Iowa, then follow the harvest as best they can as it flows into the whitewater river of agrocommerce.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
10-31-2007 |
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'Martian Child' Offers Lloyd Dobbler as a Widowernew
Frankly, it's the only way many of us will take our John Cusack, served up a la quirk, and his turn in Martian Child doesn't disappoint.
San Antonio Current |
Cynthia Hawkins |
10-31-2007 |
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Tags: Martian Child, Menno Meyjes
'Lust, Caution' Offers Arty Escapismnew
When your choices are limited to the Dane Cook comedy, the depressing 9-11/Afghanistan/Iraq War film, the ubiquitous cops-mafia-drugs drama, and Sawstel, I say by all means bring on the World War II-era, foreign-language erotic espionage thriller by Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
10-31-2007 |
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Tags: Ang Lee, Lust, Caution
'Terror's Advocate' Creates a Visceral Ethical Disquietnew
Barbet Schroeder adds to his library of alluring evil with this documentary.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Stephen Beachy |
10-31-2007 |
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What a Gas it is Getting Old With Sidney Lumetnew
Devil is a fantastically sinister thriller with a twining, fucked-up family plot that would be great even if Lumet didn't make it.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
10-31-2007 |
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'Bee Movie' Brings Plenty of Stingers, but Not Much Point
Jerry Seinfeld's film boasts a fair number of funny individual jokes -- what it lacks is any idea how to tie them all together.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
10-30-2007 |
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'Reservation Road' Hits a Dead Endnew
Men have a hard time with feelings. This seems to be the major revelation in Reservation Road, a big ol' masculine melodrama about loss, grief and guilt.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Cindy Fuchs |
10-30-2007 |
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Tags: Reservation Road, Terry George
'Control' Pays Quiet Tribute to Ian Curtisnew
Bleakly beautiful and elegantly sparse, Anton Corbijn's Control is as rigorously sober and yet filled with emotion as the best of Joy Division's songs.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
10-30-2007 |
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Tags: Control, Anton Corbijn
'Dan in Real Life' is a Bit Too Rosy for the Real Worldnew
It isn't crap, but it's about as pleasant as a movie can get without actually being any good.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Sean Burns |
10-29-2007 |
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Tags: Dan in Real Life, Peter Hedges
Thou Shalt Notnew
This family-oriented adaptation of the Book of Exodus is the inaugural film in a planned franchise of crudely animated Bible stories.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
10-26-2007 |
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Guilt and Consequencesnew
Crime and Punishment comes to New England in this story about the aftermath of a child's death.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
10-26-2007 |
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Tags: Reservation Road, Terry George
It Takes a Villagenew
This movie's high-concept premise would be easy to dismiss were it not so flawlessly executed.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-26-2007 |
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Life Without the Explosionsnew
The naturalistic indie talker unhurriedly follows a young woman through her days and nights – Nerf-ball games at work, waiting for the bus, and a series of relationships fueled by “chronic dissatisfaction.”
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
10-26-2007 |
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