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Hoist the Sailsnew
The documentary Deep Water tells the white-knuckled true story of the first single-handed around-the-world yacht competition.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
10-26-2007 |
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All in the Familynew
What passes for real life in this Steve Carell film is as genially inoffensive and predictable as the average TV sitcom.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-26-2007 |
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Tags: Dan in Real Life, Peter Hedges
Condition Terminalnew
This two-person character study features lovely performances that are models of restraint in what otherwise might have been a soppy melodrama.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Alejandro Gomez Monteverde, Bella
Happiness is a Warm Gunnew
The Beatles and Jesse James fight to draw.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
10-26-2007 |
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'Rails & Ties' is Too Predictable
Alison Eastwood makes a tentative directorial debut with a made-for-TV-quality script by tin-eared Mickey Levy.
Tags: Alison Eastwood, Rails & Ties
'Gone Baby Gone' Feels Like Two Narratives Pasted Together
For his directing debut Ben Affleck adapts a Dennis Lehane novel that resists being converted into the usual three-act structure like a circle being jammed into a square.
Tags: Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
'Wristcutters: A Love Story' is Wretched
This film takes such an arch tone by tacitly endorsing suicide that it spends most of its time in narrative freefall.
The Future of Joe Strummer on Film
Julien Temple, the director of the notable Sex Pistols documentary Filth and the Fury, proves he's the right man to make a documentary about the Clash's late frontman.
'Lars and the Real Girl' is Surprisingly Touching
Screenwriter Nancy Oliver has crafted a romantic story about a lonely introvert who discovers an ad hoc method of self-therapy in the guise of an anatomically correct silicone love doll.
'Martian Child' is a New Magical Realist Film
It focuses on the primal fear of abandonment of a young orphaned boy named Dennis (Bobby Coleman) who professes to be from Mars.
Tags: Martian Child, Menno Meyjes
'Paranoid Park': Nothing Happens
Paranoid Park may be the best of the Van Sant's last four films, but that isn't saying much.
Tags: Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park
'American Gangster' Doesn't Rise to the Level of 'Scarface'
Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe deliver inspired performances as rivals from opposite sides of the law in director Ridley Scott's true-crime epic.
Tags: American Gangster, Ridley Scott
'The District' is Comically Grotesquenew
Nothing and everything in the film works, but there are bursts of impressive creative energy that juice up the movie every time it starts to slacken, and you have to give it credit for being, as far as I know, the world's first Hungarian animated quasi-political sexually explicit rap musical.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
10-26-2007 |
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Tags: Aron Gauder, The District
'The Darjeeling Limited': The Disorienting Expressnew
This is probably the most striking, and perhaps the most memorable, of Wes Anderson's five films. This doesn't mean that it's the best, or even that it's good.
Narrative Gets Lynched in 'Slipstream'new
Perhaps one could find a prose equivalent in Joyce or Beckett, but basically this is "all cinema, all the time."
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
10-26-2007 |
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Tags: Anthony Hopkins, Slipstream
