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Articles tagged "james foley" Film DVD ReviewPerfect Strangerby Marc Calderaro[24.Sep.07] :. It’s not so much the endless heavy-handed clues, outmoded dialogue, or totally untrustworthy traits of the main characters that make the movie so unforgivable; it’s the purposeless ending that eschews all previous traits, dialogue, and clues.  Film ReviewPerfect Stranger (2007)by Cynthia Fuchs[13.Apr.07] :. While it begins dully enough for an investigative thriller, Perfect Stranger quickly skids off into abject foolishness.  Film ReviewConfidence (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[24.Apr.03] :. They meet at King's club, where he's auditioning strippers: Dustin Hoffman, big pimping.  Film ReviewThe Corruptor (1999)by Cynthia Fuchs'You don't change Chinatown. Chinatown changes you.' So warns Detective Nick Chen (Chow Yun Fat), upon meeting his squeaky clean newbie partner, Danny Wallace (Mark Wahlberg) in The Corruptor. And so persists the myth of Chinatown. Alluring, strange, and always inscrutable, in the movies it remains an uncrackable bastion of Otherness. |
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