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The Darjeeling Limited

by Kirby Fields

[22.Feb.08] :. At last, as in the final scene taken by a camera fixed to the exterior of a train as it clickety-clacks forward, the countryside speeding by, the rails extending into the distance, we can see that Wes Anderson is back on track.

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The Darjeeling Limited

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Oct.07] :. Patricia (Anjelica Huston) serves multiple purposes in The Darjeeling Limited, not least being the grail her children seek.

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Marie Antoinette (2006)

by Jake Meaney

[19.Apr.07] :. Marie Antoinette's veneer is so impregnably varnished, so buffed to such an imposing sheen, that any attempt at critical ingress either bounces off of or slides down its glossy façade.

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Bewitched (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Oct.05] :. As Jack goes overboard in usual Ferrellian fashion, Isabel's insistence that he is the perfect mate for her go-normal plan never makes sense.

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Shopgirl (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Oct.05] :. For all its seeming delicacy, its view of Mirabelle as perfect, precious object is decidedly limited.

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Bewitched (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Jun.05] :. Like most movies starring Will Ferrell and all movies based on TV series, this one tries too hard.

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I Heart Huckabees: 2-Disc Special Edition (2004)

by Bill Gibron

[23.Mar.05] :. The Special Edition is loaded with so much self-referential material and 'oh so clever' concepts that they threaten to make the movie into its own cult object.

I Heart Huckabees: 2-Disc Special Edition (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Feb.05] :. As hard as he tries, Albert can't quite keep up with the Jaffes' questions, let alone their answers.

I Heart Huckabees (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Oct.04] :. Albert is again faced with basic questions: Are we really 'all connected'? How can 'everything be the same even if it's different'?"

Spun (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jul.03] :. Screenwriter William De Los Santos calls Spun a 'love story'.

Spun (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Apr.03] :. Boasting that it includes more than 5,000 edits, Jonas Åkerlund's feature debut offers glimpses -- very fast -- into life on speed.

CQ (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.May.02] :. The subject of CQ is Paul, artist, coffee-drinker, American in Paris.

Shopgirl (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Director Anand Tucker insists his film is not about the glitzy L.A. It is, instead, about an L.A. populated with 'ordinary people just like you and me, getting on with their lives.'"

Slackers (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Some movies just don't need to be made. And some movies work extra hard to educe comments just like that one, making the extra effort to gross you out, to annoy, alarm, or titillate you.