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The Treatment

by Jason B. Jones

[17.Jan.08] :. Four forms of love: a teacher's love for his students, a son's love for his father, a man's search for a sexual partner, and an analysand's love for his analyst.

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Ratatouille (2007)

by Bill Gibron

[29.Jun.07] :. Like the gourmet food it so exquisitely renders, one fears that the sensational Ratatouille will end up being a decidedly acquired commercial taste.

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Ratatouille (2007)

by Daynah Burnett

[29.Jun.07] :. The exuberant voice performances in Ratatouille immerse the audience in its world, one enhanced by richly-colored, sophisticated animation and a lively score.

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The Treatment (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jun.07] :. Just as you're questioning your own capacity for sympathy, the best reason to keep watching The Treatment shows up: Famke Janssen.

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Lord of War (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Sep.05] :. As Yuri plainly gets off on risk, he's also broadly representative of cavalier attitudes toward risk concerning vulnerable individuals and communities.

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Wetherby (1985)

by Kevin Jagernauth

[26.Jan.05] :. Crippled by their past and unable to function in the present, these characters represent what David Hare calls 'the part-emotional landscape that is England.'"

Garden State (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Dec.04] :. Natalie Portman brings to this sad, strange, vibrant girl her own remarkable, brilliant energy.

The Aviator (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Dec.04] :. The Aviator portrays Hughes as a rebel and a genius, a dashing young man with ambition, hope, and nerve.

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Oct.04] :. Even as it lays down a scary geopolitical scenario and a few partisan gauntlets, The Day After Tomorrow aims to please.

Garden State (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Jul.04] :. 'As far back as I can remember,' Large sighs, 'I've been medicated.'"

Day After Tomorrow (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.May.04] :. As the 'eye of the storm' speeds across the screen, instantly freezing everything in its path, Jack looks up to see a flag, turned spastically solid in a second. Here it is, the money shot: the emblematic United States, stuck in time, blind to consequences, fixated on its own reckless self-love.

Bless the Child (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Cody's special in a very particular way -- in a second-coming kind of way -- which, in movie-logic, makes her the prime target for a slew of Satan's minions.

From Hell (2001)

by F.L. Carr

'From Hell' is the story of a disturbed man on the trail of a madman -- an exploration of the minds of killer and the man sent to stop him.

From Hell (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The real subject is the street, or rather, the street as a cultural concept, simultaneously brutal and beautiful.

Joe Gould’s Secret (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Joe Gould (Ian Holm) is what they used to call a 'character.' You see him early in Stanley Tucci's film, scuttling into a diner where New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell (Tucci) is having coffee.