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The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Mar.09] :. In The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Precious (Jill Scott) is often complicated, sometimes subtle, and determinedly independent -- a few steps ahead of her series.

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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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The Last King of Scotland (2006)

by Emma Simmonds

[20.Apr.07] :. Based on Giles Foden’s novel of the same name this bold, visceral cinematic-bodyblow takes a political maelstrom and a maniacal dictator and squeezes them into the mould of a genre-picture.

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The Last King of Scotland (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Sep.06] :. That Nicholas is also capable of great horrors, specifically in that he lets others act it for him and gets away with it, makes him, at some level, even more troubling than Amin.

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A Sound of Thunder (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Sep.05] :. The team has a plan by which all this devastation will be erased. If only the same might be done for A Sound of Thunder.

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