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Beowulf: Cooler Than 10th Grade English!new
Director Robert Zemeckis' vision of the Old English epic is mostly notable for two things: (A) It's all CG, and (B), it features a naked Angelina Jolie.
The Portland Mercury |
Erik Henriksen |
11-15-2007 |
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Tags: Beowulf, Robert Zemeckis
Strike?! What's a TV Columnist to Do?new
I'm forming a NEW union called the TV Critic and Watchers Guild (TCWG), and we're going to start making a few demands of our own!
The Portland Mercury |
Wm. Steven Humphrey |
11-15-2007 |
Movies
'Margot at the Wedding' is Imitation-Salingernew
Noah Bambauch makes it easy to dislike his films; problem is, he also makes it easy for New York's media elite to praise them. His deliberate ugliness makes him the Lars Von Trier of Brooklyn and the Hamptons.
New York Press |
Armond White |
11-15-2007 |
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Reverend Billy Gets the Doc Treatmentnew
Rob VanAlkemade alternates between deconstructing the conceits behind Reverend Billy's wild-eyed demeanor and exploring the Church's message in a linear fashion. As a result, the movie offers both intriguing portraiture and probing cultural analysis.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
11-15-2007 |
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'Mr. Magorium's' Lacks the Stuff to Wow at Any Agenew
Uninspired despite its various attempts to find inspiration, Magorium is itself like a toy: Shiny, mystifying and completely expendable.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
11-15-2007 |
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Evil Ways
The Coen brothers combine pure thrills with grim philosophy in No Country for Old Men.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
11-15-2007 |
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Disasters of Warnew
Brian De Palma's Redacted protests the Iraq war while Darfur Now offers hope in the midst of genocide.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
11-15-2007 |
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'Redacted' is the Low Point of a Great Artist's Careernew
The media's rush to validate a weak De Palma film continues last year's insanity that overpraised the TV-style docudrama United 93, misconstrued Oliver Stone's great elegy World Trade Center and overrated the outdated 1969 French import Army of Shadows.
New York Press |
Armond White |
11-15-2007 |
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Scabby TV Writers Outed By Fake Craigslist Adnew
While 12,000 WGA members walk the picket lines, 80 New York writers email us to take their jobs.
New York Press |
Matt Elzweig |
11-15-2007 |
Movies
Director Richard Kelly's Sophomoric Sophmore Filmnew
Once upon a time, writer-director Kelly gave us the fine and sensitive Donnie Darko, a work that succeeded in building eeriness and foreboding with minimal violence. Not so in Southland Tales.
Willamette Week |
N.P. Thompson |
11-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Kelly, Southland Tales
Dud 'in the Time of Cholera'new
Someone do us a favor and stop assigning director Mike Newell (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) to beloved book adaptations.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
11-14-2007 |
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The Freewheelin' Todd Haynes' 'I'm Not There'new
Hoping to write about Todd Haynes' new not-a-biopic of Bob Dylan almost feels like trying to write footnotes to footnotes, a circular exercise that would wind even the fabulist likes of Jorge Luis Borges.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
11-14-2007 |
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Tags: I'm Not There, Todd Haynes
Struck Downnew
Four tips for surviving the Writers Guild of America strike.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O'Leary |
11-13-2007 |
Movies
Jimmy Carter, the Likable Politiciannew
Despite its running time, Man From Plains suffers from a sound-bite sensibility.
Baltimore City Paper |
Steve Erickson |
11-13-2007 |
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