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January 01, 1990 - February 27, 2013 + Film Reviews
A Christmas Carol; Precious 
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To put it bluntly, and Scroogely, Disney's 3-D animated version of A Christmas Carol is a calamity...
In a shockingly beautiful new film called Precious, one...
This Is It; Cirque du Soleil
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After all the media madness about Michael Jackson over all the years and decades, it comes as bittersweet news that he lives vividly in This...
Amelia
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I've seen the movie Amelia, and I can tell you that Amelia Earhart is still missing...
Where the Wild Things Are
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The movie version of Where the Wild Things Are honors the book in every imaginable way...and in ways no one could have imagined until Spike...
An Education
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This week brings a thrilling new film called An Education. It's a tale of an English schoolgirl's hard-won wisdom, and it's thrilling for all sorts...
The Invention of Lying; Zombieland
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Nobody doesn't like Ricky Gervais, and his new comedy soars for a while on the wings of a clever premise: it's set in a world...
Capitalism: A Love Story; Coco Before Chanel
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Michael Moore starts Capitalism: A Love Story with a sequence of secuirty-camera videos showing holdups in progress, and ends it by showing himself, like some...
Bright Star
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Bright Star is Jane Campion's dramatization of the love affair between the young Romantic poet John Keats and his younger neighbor, Fanny Brawne. The production...
Telluride Film Festival Picks
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Love at first sight can be as dangerous as it is exciting, and the sme goes for love at first screening. I fell hard and...
Funny People; Flame and Citron
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The people in Judd Apatow's Funny People are painfully unfunny, and remarkable off-putting...In Flame & Citron, two melancholy Danes share center stage in the movie,...
(500) Days of Summer; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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In the preface of (500) Days of Summer, a narrator says, "You should know right up front this is not a love story..."
I wrote a...
Bruno; Soul Power
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Well, here's the bad news: Brüno is no Borat. Here's the worse news: Brüno crosses the line, like a besotted sprinter, from hilariously awful to...
Public Enemies
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Michael Mann's Public Enemies never lacks for interest, or interesting info. Back in the 1930's, for instance, the FBI was simply called the Bureau of...
The Hurt Locker; Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
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The Hurt Locker starts with a quote from the journalist Chris Hedges -- "War is a drug" – then makes that case with masterful clarity...
Whatever Works; The Proposal
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Boris Yellnikoff is the prolix geezer played by Larry David in Woody Allen's Whatever Works. He was once a world-class physicist teaching string theory at...
