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DVD Film Review

Silk

by Jake Meaney

[26.Mar.08] :. A beautiful movie. So very, very beautiful. Achingly beautiful, excruciatingly beautiful, tear-inducingly beautiful.

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DVD Film Review

The Hoax

by Matt Mazur

[15.Nov.07] :. The film does not shy away from the innate unlikability of its leading man and it also explores, cannily, the damage one person’s dishonesty can inflict upon everyone around them.

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TV Review

William Shakespeare’s As You Like It

by Jesse Hicks

[21.Aug.07] :. The play's untidiness -- it's one of Shakespeare's most mischievous -- virtually guarantees a final product distinguished by individual performances rather than dramatic consistency.

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DVD Film Review

Spider-Man 2.1 - Unrated, Extended Cut (2004)

by Bill Gibron

[27.Apr.07] :. While Spider-Man 2.1 may add a few more dollars to the company coffers, it's definitely not doing the Spider Man series – or the digital domain – any real favors.

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Film Review

The Hoax (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Apr.07] :. Even as The Hoax works to wring emotional consequence from its many layers of lies, you're hard-pressed to believe it.

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DVD Film Review

Luther (2003)

by Tim O'Neil

[28.Dec.04] :. This is the type of movie you can imagine history teachers embracing, on account of the facile and accessible way it tackles the subject matter.

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Spider-Man 2 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Dec.04] :. Uncomfortable with his abilities (they have come on him like a virus), Peter repeatedly returns to his central question: Who am I?"

 

Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Sep.04] :. Coffee and Cigarettes is a return, of sorts, for Jim Jarmusch.

 

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Jul.04] :. Though Spider-Man plainly enjoys saving kids from danger and even instructing them ('Hey you guys! No playing in the street'), he also longs for a more regular, selfish life.

 

Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.May.04] :. Coffee and Cigarettes is a return, of sorts, for Jim Jarmusch.

 

Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)

by Jesse Hassenger

[13.May.04] :. On its own terms, Coffee and Cigarettes is an effective addiction movie, self-indulgent but also familiar and low-key.

 

Identity (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Sep.03] :. As James Mangold neatly puts it, these characters are running along 'a kind of Möbius strip of hell.'"

 

Identity (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Apr.03] :. Amanda Peet, not incidentally, throws some fine, even sublime, attitude.

 

Frida (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Oct.02] :. Julie Taymor's Frida pulses with color.

 

Chocolat (2000)

by Dale Leech

If Lasse Hallström’s Chocolat were a Disney film, it would be Beauty and the Beast. Both are set in quaint mountainside hamlets filled with close-minded people who are led by...

 
 
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