Articles tagged "alessandro nivola"

Film Review

The Eye

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Feb.08] :. Once the line is clearly drawn between subjective and objective worlds, The Eye turns into just another ill-advised, exploitative remake.

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Grace Is Gone

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Dec.07] :. As its title suggests, however, the careful, compelling melodrama Grace Is Gone focuses on what happens when she does not return.

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Face/Off

by Jesse Hassenger

[13.Sep.07] :. This may be the last time the Woo signatures -- slow-mo gun battles flanked by slo-mo birds; "balletic" leaps through the air; two-man Mexican stand-offs -- were effective in a remotely serious manner

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The Sisters (2005)

by Courtney Young

[7.Aug.06] :. Hope, delayed. A painful, poignant adaptation of everyday life.

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Goal! The Dream Begins (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.May.06] :. Lacking a plot, Goal! leans heavily on predictable hardships to stretch out the time until Santiago's inevitable success.

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Junebug (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Aug.05] :. The film portrays such reframings and delimitations, of borders that can't be crossed, in images at once delicate and acute.

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The Clearing (2004)

by Kevin Jagernauth

[29.Nov.04] :. The kidnapping sets in motion a thriller that doubles as a character study, delving into Wayne and Eileen's strained marriage.

 

The Clearing (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Jul.04] :. As wealthy, world-weary Pittsburgh businessman Wayne Hayes, Robert Redford is typically low-key.

 

Mansfield Park (1999)

by j.serpico

On Mansfield Park's official Miramax website, the book upon which the film is loosely based is heralded as Jane Austen's third and most controversial novel. This claim, directed at Mansfield Park the novel, seems an attempt to re-invigorate interest in a text oftentimes considered Austen's blandest.

 

Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000)

by Ben Varkentine

In the hands of able actors, Shakespeare's 'taffeta phrases, silken terms, precise, three-piled hyperboles, and spruce affections' are a passport to the land of milk and honey.

 

Jurassic Park III (2001)

by Ben Varkentine

Digital dinosaurs in digital stereo.