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Serially Putridnew
88 Minutes is so criminally bad, the filmmakers should go to prison.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
04-24-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: 88 Minutes, Jon Avnet
Touching Womennew
88 Minutes: Not 88 minutes long and not entertaining, but great for Al Pacino's libido.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
04-24-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: 88 Minutes, Jon Avnet
Boys Will Be Boysnew
The adventures of a fascist (My Brother Is an Only Child) and a professional poker player (Deal). Choose the fascist.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
04-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: crime, poker, Drama, Deal, Angela Finocchiaro, Anna Bonaiuto, Bret Harrison, Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Daniele Luchetti, Elio Germano, facists, Gary Grubbs, Gil Cates Jr., Italy, Jennifer Tilly, Luca Zingaretti, Maria Mason, Massimo Popolizio, My Brother is an Only Child, Riccardo Scamarcio, Shannon Elizabeth
An Illegal-immigration Movie You'll Want to Seenew
Instead of focusing on the traditional movie star, Thomas McCarthy writes for performers he admires who aren't the traditional leads and then lets them flex their acting muscles. In The Visitor, it's Richard Jenkins' turn.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
04-23-2008 |
Reviews
Love Him or Hate Him, D.K. Holm Needs Your Helpnew
Recently, film critic Holm was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, for which he has begun chemotherapy and is scheduled for surgery.
Willamette Week |
David Walker |
04-23-2008 |
Movies
'Baby Mama' is the Latest Installment of Estro-Comedynew
Michael McCullers doesn't have writer Tina Fey's deft hand. While he does see something significant in the almost entirely sci-fi female-generated pregnancy where men are barely in the picture, his social commentary is only skin deep.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
04-23-2008 |
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Well Made As It Is, 'Leatherheads' Doesn't Have Anything to Say About Anythingnew
Coming from a guy like Clooney, who has recently starred in Michael Clayton and Syriana and directed Good Night, and Good Luck, that lack of substance is a little unexpected and disappointing.
Tags: George Clooney, Leatherheads
'An Elementary Education' Takes On School Choicenew
The new documentary asks, "Is the need for school choice greater than the need for community?"
Boulder Weekly |
Dana Logan |
04-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Reality TV Grows into Young@Heart's Rock Operanew
When British filmmaker Stephen Walker first agreed to listen to a chorus of retired Americans performing in London, England, he went strictly as a spectator.
The Georgia Straight |
Ken Eisner |
04-21-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Belgian Teen's Death Shaped 'Ben X'new
Belgium's Nic Balthazar was a movie critic before he became a novelist and movie director -- a rather unusual progression, he is the first to admit.
The Georgia Straight |
Ken Eisner |
04-21-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Cute Space Alien + Poor Boy = Gooey Sillinessnew
Hong Kong superstar director-actor Stephen Chow takes a detour from his anarchic, martial-arts comedies and winds up in the sentimental cinema-land of very cute kids and furry toys.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Al Hoff |
04-21-2008 |
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Baby Madness: It's All in the Delivery
Baby madness happily invades the brain of Philadelphia bachelorette and thriving businesswoman Kate Holbrook (gleefully played by Tina Fey) who, at the ripe age of 37, hires a surrogate mom to birth her sperm bank assisted baby.
Tags: Baby Mama, Michael McCullers
Norah Jones Wanders Through 'My Blueberry Nights' in a Dazenew
This is Wong Kar-Wai's first movie in a decade to be set in the present day, but it still feels as if it were retrieved from some other time and place.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
04-21-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: My Blueberry Nights, Wong Kar-Wai
Morgan Spurlock Talks About His Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Mannew
"I expected to go find him," Spurlock insists, fending off any suggestion that his hunt for Osama bin Laden was a mere pretense. "I had a 50/50 shot, right?"
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
04-21-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Thomas McCarthy Carves Out a Plum Role for Veteran Character Actor Richard Jenkins in 'The Visitor'new
So much film criticism focuses on directors that we sometimes forget what draws most people to the screen: the prospect of seeing an actor connect with a role and really live it.
Chicago Reader |
J.R. Jones |
04-21-2008 |
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