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'The Brave One' is 'Death Wish' for the NPR Crowdnew
The film doesn't raise any questions about vigilantism or social comeuppance that haven't already been asked by dramas dealing with the checks and balances of legality and morality.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Drew Lazor |
09-18-2007 |
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Tags: Neil Jordan, The Brave One
Director Jennifer Fox: Free Like a Boynew
More than a simple diary film, Flying is also a kind of essay about what freedom for a contemporary woman consists of.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
09-17-2007 |
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Julie Delpy's '2 Days in Paris' Explores the Hard Parts of Romancenew
Delpy's zippy romantic comedy is all entanglement: It's what happens when you’ve spent the past few days in Venice with explosive diarrhea, and the next 48 hours brings only language barriers, close quarters with the parents, and a virtual Yellow Pages of ex-lovers.
Riverfront Times |
Jim Ridley |
09-17-2007 |
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Tags: 2 Days in Paris, Julie Delpy
Jodie Foster Dishes Up Rough Justicenew
Yes, The Brave One is that movie: the one with the posters of America's once-upon-a-time sweetheart posed artistically against a yellow background, her hand pressed contemplatively against her salon-styled hair, and the tag line "How Many Wrongs to Make It Right?"
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
09-17-2007 |
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Tags: Neil Jordan, The Brave One
Paul Haggis' Latest is Worth Seeing Despite His Heavy Handnew
What makes In the Valley of Elah -- a wildly uneven but brave foray into the dark side of posttraumatic stress disorder -- unusual is its focus on parental grief, which Haggis seeks to complicate by asking, What's the one thing that could be worse than the bottomless sorrow of losing a child who’s a war hero?
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
09-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Haggis, In the Valley of Elah
Sean Penn Roughs It With 'Into the Wild'
Sean Penn directs this thoroughly satisfying account of Christopher McCandless's wilderness journeys that Jon Krakauer eloquently brought to light in his 1996 best-selling book.
Tags: Into the Wild, Sean Penn
'The Brothers Solomon' Get No Lovenew
Knocked Up summed up all the fears of a generation bent on eternal adolescence and has smart social observations beneath its seemingly dumb comedy. But if you're looking for social commentary, Brothers is strictly dumb and dumber.
The Georgia Straight |
Janet Smith |
09-14-2007 |
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Tags: Bob Odenkirk, The Brothers Solomon
'Hatchet' Sucksnew
How this utterly worthless slasher flick managed to avoid going straight to video and then directly to the bargain bin will confound discriminating horror fans for days, if not weeks.
The Georgia Straight |
Steve Newton |
09-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Adam Green, Hatchet
'Shoot 'Em Up' is Like Watching a Video Gamenew
In Shoot 'Em Up, the action is so dark, blurry, shaky, and chopped up, you may find yourself squinting and bobbing your head to try and get a better look.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
09-14-2007 |
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Tags: Michael Davis, Shoot 'Em Up
'In the Valley of Elah' Looks at The War Once Homenew
Paul Haggis fights to reveal one of combat's most dismissed consequences.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Mark Keizer |
09-14-2007 |
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'The Hunting Party' Feels Like Two Different Moviesnew
One is a smart comedy about TV reporters, and the other is a fact-based story about those reporters hunting a war criminal in postwar Bosnia -- but the two never blend, and only a few of the scenes generate either laughs or tension.
NOW Magazine |
Andrew Dowler |
09-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Shepard, The Hunting Party
'Mr. Woodcock' Risesnew
Don't underestimate this light comedy because of its gratuitously juvenile title or its weak premise of a self-help writer who can't cope -- the plot might be predictable, but the dialogue is surprisingly witty and the performances strong.
NOW Magazine |
Jeff Rutherford |
09-14-2007 |
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Tags: Craig Gillespie, Mr. Woodcock
This is a Well-Titled Movienew
This is a movie whose body count is much higher than its IQ.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
09-13-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Davis, Shoot 'Em Up
'Hurricane on the Bayou' Captures How Man Contributed to Katrinanew
Narrated by Meryl Streep, the 2006 film was originally intended to provide viewers with a scenic trip through the wetlands of New Orleans. Three months after the initial footage was shot in 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the city, bringing the film's warnings to life.
'Fully Awake' Celebrates the Black Mountain Collegenew
Josef Albers, Anni Albers, Arthur Penn, David Tudor, John Cage, Merce Cuningham, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, M.C. Richards, Charles Olsen, Robert Creeley, Franz Kline ... It is amazing to think that all of these art-world luminaries once immersed themselves in creative experimentation in a remote, isolated college in the mountains of North Carolina.
