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‘Defiance’ Can’t Help But Feel Derivative

by Bill Gibron

[30.Jan.09] :. The Holocaust remains, for all intents and purposes, the ultimate expression of evil in our lifetime. Outside the obvious elements of genocide and the organized political support for same, the...

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‘Defiance’ survivors remember Bielskis’ strength, courage

by Howard Reich [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[22.Jan.09] :. Not all Holocaust stories end in death. For more than 1,200 Jews hunted in the forests of Belarus, life - extraordinarily difficult and dangerous - was possible, thanks to the ingenuity and...

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‘Defiance’ co-stars had to endure cold, primitive conditions to play WWII rebels

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

[16.Jan.09] :. Think Holocaust movie. What do you see? Lines of weary men, women and children being herded to their deaths? That’s the conventional view. But in the based-on-fact World War II drama...

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‘Defiance’ director Edward Zwick wants to be the Ken Burns of the multiplex

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[12.Jan.09] :. Things didn’t have to work out this way for Edward Zwick. The “thirtysomething” and “My So Called Life” co-creator broke into the movies with “About Last...

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Defiance

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Dec.08] :. Defiance's tendency to melodrama drags the rest of this ostensibly historical saga into a decidedly middling territory.

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Holo-Cost

by Bill Gibron

[9.Dec.08] :. All across the web this past week, it’s been the subject of much metaphysical ink. As awards season slowly winds down, Hollywood is dragging out the proverbial heavy hitters, and oddly enough,...

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Talk, Talk, Talk: December 2008

by Bill Gibron

[12.Sep.08] :. Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose.

 

Mister Foe (Hallam Foe)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Sep.08] :. By the end of Hallam Foe, you've nearly forgotten his all-too-regular boy development. Now you're wondering, what's Kate doing when he's not looking?

 

Jumper

by Marc Calderaro

[30.Jun.08] :. Brashness and arrogance, and absolutely none of the consequences of either.

 

Jumper

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Feb.08] :. The Chechnyan backdrop reminds you yet again of the utter inconsequence of Jumper.

 

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Oct.06] :. War, the film argues, depends on lies, on myths and beliefs that could never be sustained were the experience represented or remembered explicitly.

 

Broken Saints - The Animated Comic Epic

by Matthew A. Stern

[13.Sep.06] :. The fact that Broken Saints has gotten critical acclaim in its DVD release adds an air of mainstream legitimacy to the burgeoning world of Flash animation.

 

King Kong (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Dec.05] :. Jackson's film makes Ann's admiration for Kong an earnest distraction from her eventual, proper coupledom with Jack (who, even with Brody's Men's Health coverboy abs, can't compete with the potent spectacle of Kong).

 

Undertow (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Apr.05] :. Retribution leads to violence, such that the next generation of brothers, Tim and Chris, are tossed into yet another vacuum of fear, guilt, and suspicion.

 

Undertow (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Oct.04] :. Uncle Deel (Josh Lucas) hauls up in his muscle car, his face grizzled and his pink cowboy shirt weirdly stylish.

 

Billy Elliot (2000)

by Renee Scolaro Rathke

Behind a triumphant tale of self-discovery is a subtext of anxiety that ultimately enhances what might have been a pretty ordinary film.