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The Golden Compass

by Lara Killian

[13.May.08] :. Scruffy and unpolished in the open casting call, Dakota Blue Richards shines in her role as the gutsy heroine.

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The author of ‘The Golden Compass’ doesn’t mince words

by Robert K. Elder [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[13.Dec.07] :. He certainly doesn’t look like a god-killer. But that’s how critics cast him: a deity-smashing heretic, bent on spreading godlessness with children’s tales. No, in person, author...

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Critics say ‘Golden Compass’ is atheist agenda disguised in fantasy

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[9.Dec.07] :. Since its beginning, critics have denounced the film industry as a godless enterprise leading innocent minds astray. Now, say the critics, the industry is pushing a children’s movie with an...

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Critics say ‘Golden Compass’ is atheist agenda disguised in fantasy

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[7.Dec.07] :. Since its beginning, critics have denounced the film industry as a godless enterprise leading innocent minds astray. Now, say the critics, the industry is pushing a children’s movie with an...

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The Golden Compass

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Dec.07] :. Too bland and disjointed to match up with either set up expectations, The Golden Compass is too familiar to be beguiling, too interested in appeasing masses and selling the Corgi toy line.

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Director says initial reaction to ‘Compass’ hasn’t been golden

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[6.Dec.07] :. Chris Weitz is a moviemaker on the spot. He’s just directed a multi-million dollar movie fantasy, “The Golden Compass,” which opens around the world Friday. And nobody seems willing...

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‘Compass’ author’s atheism stirs debate on film’s message

by Duane Dudek [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)]

[6.Dec.07] :. Nina Hemmer is a reader. The 11-year-old Shorewood, Wis., girl is plowing through the Bible and hopes “to get to the part about Jesus’ birth by Christmas,” said her mother, Cathy...

 
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Casino Royale (2006)

by Jake Meaney

[13.Apr.07] :. Casino Royale feels sleek, lean, shorn of fat, lithely running freely along that relentless but perilous path from point A to point B in classic parkourfashion.

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Casino Royale (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Nov.06] :. The new Bond understands loss, but focuses on revenge instead of grief. He's a hard body in a hard new world.

 

Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.May.05] :. As history, it is mightily revisionist -- a blacksmith named turns inadvertent defender of Jerusalem, devoted to the notion that Muslims and Christians can get along.

 

The Dreamers (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Jul.04] :. 'At the beginning, says Bertolucci,' the characters are a bit unshaped, and day after day, you can see them becoming something new, something that didn't exist before.

 

The Dreamers (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Feb.04] :. The frustration of The Dreamers lies in its easy lapsing into such unimaginative nostalgia, as if recalling the moment is enough.