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The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic of The Wall Street Journal, Joe Morgenstern reviews films weekly in the paper and on KCRW; he airs his current musings on the film industry in a biweekly column for the paper as well. He has worked for The New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and his freelance writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Playboy, GQ and the Columbia Journalism Review. He has also written for television; his scripts include "The Boy In the Plastic Bubble" and several episodes of "Law & Order." Joe is a founding member of the National Society of Film Critics and a member of the New York Film Critics Circle.
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Smart People; The Visitor
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Paranoid Park
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The Bank Job
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The Other Boleyn Girl; Penelope
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Vantage Point; Charlie Bartlett
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Jumper; Definitely, Maybe
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Taxi to the Dark Side; Mad Money
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There Will Be Blood
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There Will Be Blood has a wondrously monstrous hero, a turn-of-the-cent oilman named Daniel Plainview. One of the many ways he vents his rage against humanity is by threatening to bury his enemies alive...
Sweeney Todd
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Tim Burton's brilliant blood-soaked screen version of Sweeney Todd stars Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. The movie begins with sticky globules of blood on the wheels and cogs of what can only be [gulp] a meat grinder... By now we know the nature of the meat and the gist of the ghastly story...
I Am Legend
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So you're the last human being in New York City--maybe on earth. That's not good since you're a social animal and you can hardly hang out with the hordes of murderous zombies, who emerge from their dark hives every night. On the other hand you've got the city to yourself in the daytime. No gridlock, no pickpockets, no bicycle messengers to dodge. Such is the plight of Will Smith in I Am Legend...
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