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• March, 2007

• The Pursuit of Happyness 0.5/5

  2007-03-04 20:00

  

  Starting from the premise that all poor people are lazy, it works it's way up to the conclusion that there is nothing wrong with being down and out that a job on Wall St. won't fix. Will go perfectly next to a copy of Atlas Shrugged in the ultimate collection of childishly masturbatory paeans to unbridled greed.

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• The History Boys 1.5/5

  2007-03-03 13:24

  

  Alan Bennet is a stuffed shirt who is as in love with inane wordplay and smartassed sentimentality as his fans are with formal, mechanical theatre.

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• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for... 4.5/5

  2007-03-03 10:51

  

  Pitilessly exposing the nasty side of America, Borat is most remarkable for the sweet, open reception Cohen is given by the least fortunate in the movie -- the gang bangers and prostitutes.

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• Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 3.5/5

  2007-03-02 23:48

  

  From its pitch-perfect title through just about every detail, this sendup of sports-triumph movies maintains the right parodic pitch, if not always the highest mph on the laugh speedometer.

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• The Last King Of Scotland 4.5/5

  2007-03-02 21:05

  

  Forest Whittaker shines as a scarily likable Idi Amin in a shockingly unsentimental parable about human blindness.

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• February, 2007

• Lost Highway 4.5/5

  2007-02-25 04:03

  

  My personal favorite David Lynch movie, hated by the critics for being too metaphorical, I think that this is the first full blossoming of the Lynchian world, full of themes that Mulholland Drive make more intelligible, but not more visceral. The Man With No Eyebrows will go down in my books as the single greatest fictitious creation of all time.

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• Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister 2.5/5

  2007-02-24 19:51

  

  A cute, low-budget retelling of the Cinderella story from the point of view of her 'ugly stepsister' Iris.

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• Lawrence of Arabia 5/5

  2007-02-24 00:30

  

  Truly one of the great movies of all time...the best epic the screen has ever seen. In terms of sheer sweep, intelligence, and star power, nothing much comes close.

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• Taxi Driver 5/5

  2007-02-23 02:13

  

  Its themes of urban decay, anomie and violence which infuse the impending sense of doom at the heart of this film still hang like black clouds over many cities today.

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• The Manchurian Candidate 4/5

  2007-02-22 23:57

  

  This remake of the 1960's classic is creepier than the original, if only because it seems more plausible.

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• Pet Semetary 2/5

  2007-02-21 04:41

  

  The book was crap, and the movie is crap, but in a sort of good B-movie sort of way...

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• Casino Royale 4/5

  2007-02-20 22:16

  

  The best James Bond film since Goldfinger (1964). My only complaint is the obnoxious product placement bits - part of it is indistinguishable from a car commercial...

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• Babel 3.5/5

  2007-02-20 19:07

  

  Iñárritu built a gripping, powerful film exploring cultural assumptions and misunderstandings in the midst of tragic loss, and then wimps out and gives it a Hollywood-happy ending. Boo!

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• Trois couleurs: Bleu 4.5/5

  2007-02-20 03:43

  

  Krzysztof Kieslowski's penetrating, hypnotic meditation on liberty and loss is a masterpiece of symbolic, textural film-making.

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• Waterworld 1.5/5

  2007-02-20 02:23

  

  Nearly $200 million down the drain, and you get this astonishingly mediocre action wannabe-epic.

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• The Odessa File 2.5/5

  2007-02-20 00:18

  

  Frederick Forsyth's best-selling novel gets a slow and plodding treatment by Ronald Neame that is saved by the fantastic performances turned in by Jon Voigh and Maximilian Schell

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• Breakdown 2.5/5

  2007-02-18 03:02

  

  When you really think about Breakdown -- and believe me, that would probably require spending more time thinking about the movie than the filmmakers did -- it doesn't make much sense.

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• Serpico 5/5

  2007-02-18 01:05

  

  I don't really understand why anyone bothers making cop dramas after this - Lumet and Pacino combine their considerable talents to create an enormously powerful movie based on true life.

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• 300 1/5

  2007-02-17 21:35

  

  I had the opportunity to screen '300' last night, one night after it debuted at the Berlin Film Festival at a screening with the director; Zack Snyder. Fanboys rejoice - this is likely to be the most faithful adaptation of a graphic novel you will ever see. Each panel became a shot in the movie, and almost all of the dialogue remained the same, with the exception of some added scenes set in Sparta - scenes added, according to Snyder, to keep Sparta from being 'an abstraction' by the end of the movie. For those who have not read the graphic novel; this is not an accurate retelling of the battle of Thermopylae. This is a campy action movie based on a campy graphic novel that uses a discredited version of the events surrounding the battle to tell a mythic story that will be very entertaining if you don't go in looking for a serious historical film. Amusing touches added by Snyder include all of the Persians having American accents and remaining faithful to the (not really accurate) Herodotus' view of Sparta, which is true to Miller's novel, complete with gratuitous mentions of "freedom" as the thing they are fighting for.

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• La Fille sur le pont 4.5/5

  2007-02-16 02:42

  

  Patrice Leconte's unconventional fairytale is a Fellini-esque romantic comedy with Daniel Auteuil and Vanessa Paradis push their luck on their tour of music-halls, circuses and casinos, stopping only to engage in some psychic knife-throwing as metaphorical sex.

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• A History of Violence 4/5

  2007-02-15 23:32

  

  From any other director, this would be a masterpiece. Coming from Cronenberg however, I came away thinking "is that all then?"

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• A Home at the End of the World 1.5/5

  2007-02-15 02:30

  

  A prefab, soap-opera rendition of Jules et Jim, full of bloodless sentimentality and the kind of pretentious gentility that some people will mistake for seriousness and persuade themselves that it's better than it is, which is not very good.

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• Virtuosity 1.5/5

  2007-02-15 01:45

  

  Denzel Washington and Kurt Russell chew the scenery in this pathetic chase movie so chock full of buzzwords and so devoid of plot that it is amazing that so much potential plot material could have been squandered so easily.

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• The Sum of All Fears 3.5/5

  2007-02-13 23:18

  

  Every time I see a movie made from a Tom Clancy novel, I wonder why it is that Clancy doesn't just write movie scripts. They work so much better as scripts, and this one is no exception.

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• Interview With The Vampire 4/5

  2007-02-10 23:07

  

  When it was announced that Tom Cruise would play the vampire Lestat in this adaptation of Anne Rice's bestselling novel, even Rice chimed in with a highly publicized objection. The author wisely and justifiably recanted her negative opinion when she saw Cruise's excellent performance, which perceptively addresses the pain and chronic melancholy that plagues anyone cursed with immortal bloodlust. Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst are equally good at maintaining the dark and brooding tone of Rice's novel. And in this rare mainstream project for a major studio, director Neil Jordan compensates for a lumbering plot by honoring the literate, Romantic qualities of Rice's screenplay. Considered a disappointment while being embraced by Rice's loyal followers, the movie is too slow to be a satisfying thriller, but it is definitely one of the most lavish, intelligent horror films ever made. --Jeff Shannon

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• El Laberinto del Fauno 4.5/5

  2007-02-07 18:20

  

  A fantastic blending of the recognizable yet fantastic and the commonplace yet amazing prove that Guillermo del Toro is much more of a filmmaker (and storyteller) than Hellboy would have you believe.

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• The Departed 4/5

  2007-02-04 18:03

  

  Brad Pitt remakes Internal Affairs, the first of a trilogy of Hong Kong action flicks. Westernized, but not as spectacular as the Hong Kong version.

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• January, 2007

• Happy Feet 3.5/5

  2007-01-30 21:54

  

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• Sideways 2.5/5

  2007-01-29 04:45

  

  Horny narcissistic loser and pseudo-intellectual narcissistic loser go on a wine country road trip to indulge their inch-deep personalities. If that wasn't what was intended, I would be offended...

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• Hotel Rwanda 4.5/5

  2007-01-29 02:40

  

  Unforgettable in it's accurate portrayal of human brutality, pathetic bravery in the face of extinction, and complete callousness and disregard for black Africans killing other black Africans.

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• Ocean's Twelve 1/5

  2007-01-29 00:16

  

  At least now we have the answer: yes, it is possible to make a movie more vapid than Ocean's ELeven.

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• The Verdict 4.5/5

  2007-01-27 00:46

  

  Paul Newman is brilliant as the hard-luck attorney in this David Mamet drama. Few courtroom films since then can come close to matching the powerful production in this near perfect film.

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• The Trigger Effect 2/5

  2007-01-26 03:19

  

  When the power goes out, civilization falls apart and everyone gets all Mad Max in suburbia. An elaborate Twilight Zone send-up.

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• 28 Days Later 4.5/5

  2007-01-25 01:07

  

  Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) turns his hand to the zombie flick, and comes up with one as good as George Romero's trilogy. Also notable for the excellent shots of abandoned London.

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• Jeux d'enfants 4.5/5

  2007-01-24 01:42

  

  Released in English as "Love Me If You Dare", Jeus d'enfants is what would have happened if Amélie Poulain had followed her obsession to it's logical conclusion.

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• William Shakespeare's Romeo &... 4/5

  2007-01-24 01:34

  

  Baz Luhrmann sticks a thumb in the eye of "keep culture static" traditionalists with this contextual updating of the classic tale. The dialogue remains true to the original script, preserving the beauty of Shakespeare without the slavish ossification of set and setting that Franco Zeffirelli saddled himself with in his remake with Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussy.

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• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1/5

  2007-01-23 23:45

  

  This was not a very good comic book, and filming it didn't do it any favors.

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• Gattaca 3.5/5

  2007-01-23 02:52

  

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• Enduring Love 3/5

  2007-01-23 00:55

  

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• Time Bandits 4/5

  2007-01-22 23:03

  

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• True Romance 4.5/5

  2007-01-22 01:06

  

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• Mulholland Falls 3.5/5

  2007-01-21 21:56

  

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• The Libertine 2.5/5

  2007-01-21 21:53

  

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• Alien 5/5

  2007-01-21 21:51

  

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• Friday Night Lights 4/5

  2007-01-21 02:28

  

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• Twin Town 2.5/5

  2007-01-21 01:07

  

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• Battle Royale 3/5

  2007-01-20 22:41

  

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• The Goonies 3.5/5

  2007-01-20 22:40

  

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• The Godfather 4.5/5

  2007-01-20 03:20

  

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• The Riverman 2.5/5

  2007-01-19 03:02

  

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