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January 01, 1990 - December 11, 2012 + Film Reviews
Stephanie Daley 
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Quiet carries the day--and haunts the nights--in Stephanie Daley.
You won't find any histrionics here... no smash ending and no action
sequences-- unless you count a collision...
Fracture; Everything's Gone Green
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A thriller called Fracture is exactly what's been needed to banish a winter-long case of movie blues...
Perfect Stranger; Disturbia
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Life is full of choices, and Halle Berry has made another bad one with Perfect Stranger. This is a perfectly off-putting thriller that was directed...
Grindhouse; The Hoax
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Grindhouse is an exuberant double feature by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. It's an evocation of the horror flicks that used to play in moldering...
Blades of Glory; After the Wedding; The Lookout
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Joe Morgenstern reviews the comedy, Blades of Glory; After the Wedding, Denmark's official entry to the 2006 Oscars, and The Lookout, a fast-paced crime...
Reign Over Me; Offside
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In the opening scene of “Reign Over Me,” we hear the strains of Graham Nash’s “Simple Man,” and see a spectral figure, head encased in...
Premonition; The Wind That Shakes the Barley
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Anyone who’s seen the awful trailer for Premonition is bound to have premonitions about the movie. After
seeing the movie, I have postmonitions about Sandra Bullock...
The Namesake; 300
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Early in the course of The Namesake, a young and beautiful Indian woman stands alone in a spare American kitchen, pondering the riddle of breakfast....
Zodiac; Black Snake Moan
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Length matters. The running time of Zodiac may well be a function of its subject - 156 minutes to span more than two decades,...
The Astronaut Farmer
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I wasn't sure I'd be able to convey the special idiocy of The Astronaut Farmer until I remembered an old radio skit by Bob and...
Breach
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Chris Cooper has a face that could slow a clock. In the happiest of times his expressions range, at a measured pace, from thoughtful through...
The Lives of Others
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In the magnificent new German film The Lives of Others, someone notes that Stalin liked to call writers "engineers of the human soul." It was...
The Italian; The Dead Girl
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This week Joe Morgenstern reviews two films: The Italian and The Dead Girl.
God Grew Tired of Us; Stomp the Yard
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