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Wednesday, June 23 2010

Al Pacino makes a welcome return to the New York stage


Thursday, March 26 2009

Part 4: All About My Mother to Sleepy Hollow (October - November 1999)

Outsiders and oddballs make up Part Four's formidable filmmakers, an idiosyncratic collection of dreamers and visionaries.


Thursday, February 5 2009

Righteous Kill

This movie boasts a tired and generic script and achieves a weird sort of harmonic convergence of forgetablilty.


Thursday, January 15 2009

OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008

There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!


Tuesday, January 13 2009

Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008

Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.


Friday, September 12 2008

‘Righteous Kill’: Attacked on All Sides

Righteous Kill uses Karen (Carla Gugino) both to critique the male cops' sense of self-righteousness and be the victim.


Tuesday, September 9 2008

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.


Friday, April 18 2008

88 Minutes

In 88 Minutes, Gramm's carelessness is increasingly annoying, less a characterization than a function of slack scripting.


Tuesday, July 3 2007

The Panic in Needle Park (1971)

Al Pacino's performance in The Panic in Needle Park launched his stardom.


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Gigli (2003) (Reviews) [9.Dec.03]
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People I Know (2003) (Reviews) [15.May.03]
The Recruit (2003) (Reviews) [30.Jan.03]
Simone (2002) (Reviews) [22.Aug.02]
Insomnia (2002) (Reviews) [23.May.02]
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Any Given Sunday (1999) (Reviews) [1.Jan.95]
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