AltWeeklies Wire
'Fred Claus': Ho-Ho-Humnew
Never once does this big spangly artificial tree of a movie look or smell natural.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
11-08-2007 |
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Tags: David Dobkin, Fred Claus
'Romance and Cigarettes': Bada-Bing, Gotta Dancenew
This intentionally unglamorous romp boasts a big-name cast, a brash disregard for mainstream expectations, and one paramount insight: Real men like pussy. If the word makes you recoil, this movie isn't for you.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-08-2007 |
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'Before The Devil Knows You're Dead': Family Businessnew
Sidney Lumet crime thriller shows it's all relative.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-08-2007 |
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Career Opportunitiesnew
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten and The Pixar Story paint revolutionary portraits.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-08-2007 |
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The Advocates on Screennew
Lions for Lambs and Darfur Now reveal why and how people take action.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
11-08-2007 |
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'No Country' is a Crime Movie for a World at Warnew
The way the Coen brothers' latest morphs from noir into contemporary-western moral struggle makes it deeper, funnier and even stranger than Fargo.
New York Press |
Armond White |
11-08-2007 |
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'Steal a Pencil for Me': Holocaust Loversnew
Gentle documentary tells a sweetly engaging story amid larger turmoil.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
11-08-2007 |
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'Lions for Lambs': Six Characters in Search of Authoritynew
In the best directing of his career, Robert Redford explores national disunity with plenty of star power for backup.
New York Press |
Armond White |
11-08-2007 |
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Tags: Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford
Passable Entertainmentnew
Washington and Crowe shine in the well-directed American Gangster, but the movie's merely decent.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
11-07-2007 |
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Tags: American Gangster, Ridley Scott
Quaint Chatsnew
Lions for Lambs features too many talking heads and not enough action.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
11-07-2007 |
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Tags: Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford
'Lions for Lambs' Offers Bumper-Sticker Platitudesnew
The next time Robert Redford decides to make a film about Iraq and the Bush administration, I really wish he'd run the script by me first. Or at least show it to Joe, the bum that hangs out in front of Starbucks. Or my cat Pearl. Because any of the above could easily have told him that this well intentioned muddle of mediocrity misses the mark by a mile and half.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
11-07-2007 |
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Tags: Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford
'King Corn': The Quiet, Scary Documentarynew
King Corn feels like a tonic not only for the ills of American food production, but for the shrillness of the nation's documentaries as well.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
11-07-2007 |
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The Coen and Cormac Frontier in 'No Country for Old Men'new
The casting is superb, but the notes each of the actors are allowed to search out and discover are what make No Country For Old Men at least within a well-hurled rock's throw of a "masterpiece" as some writers have already gratefully dubbed this glory of pearlescent carborundum.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
11-07-2007 |
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Terry George on Oscar Nods and Irish Prisonnew
The filmmaker behind Reservation Road gets chatty at the Austin Film Festival.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
11-07-2007 |
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Tags: Reservation Road, Terry George
'Fred Claus': Like 'The Santa Clause,' Only Less Clevernew
I'm watching Fred Claus wondering about the cast of Paul Giamatti, Rachel Weisz, Kathy Bates, Kevin Spacey: Did they actually read this script before accepting?
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
11-07-2007 |
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Tags: David Dobkin, Fred Claus
