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Be Kind Rewind

by Andrew Gilstrap

[19.Jun.08] :. Uneven and a little muddled, Be Kind Rewind might be a prime candidate for the very fan remixing it portrays.

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Various Artists: Be Kind Rewind

by Evan Sawdey

[21.Mar.08] :. Sprawling, breezy lite-funk mixed with classics by Billy Preston and Booker T. & the MGs. Definitely worth rewinding.

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Be Kind Rewind

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Feb.08] :. A set of relationships -- father and son, past and present, fiction and something like history -- forms the foundation of Be Kind Rewind, another gently antic film by Michel Gondry.

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TV Review

Prince Among Slaves

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Feb.08] :. Prince Among Slaves establishes its focus -- on the contrast between slavery, as barbaric idea and industry, and one individual's integrity and strength of will.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Oct.05] :. For all its possibilities -- and its crazily pleasant animations --the movie takes a more or less conventional narrative shape.

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Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Jun.05] :. The very process of documenting freestyle is at once contradictory and ambitious, futile and crucial.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Apr.05] :. Ford Prefect (Mos Def) wanders into the film of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a little late, and in no hurry.

 

The Woodsman (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Apr.05] :. Director Kassell says, 'There's Kyra Sedgwick beating the shit out of Carlos Leon. I love this scene.'"

 

The Woodsman (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jan.05] :. Walter (Kevin Bacon) lives in a world perpetually gray.

 

The Italian Job (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Aug.03] :. As soon as John utters the words 'last job' to his darling girl, his fate (like the film's) is sealed.

 

The Italian Job (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.May.03] :. As soon as John utters the words 'last job' to his darling girl, his fate (like the film's) is sealed.

 

Brown Sugar (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Oct.02] :. Brown Sugar can blur lines between mainstream and margin, mix up the spirits, just as hip-hop -- so-called real hip-hop but also, in its way, brashly commercial hip-hop -- has always done.

 

Bamboozled (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Messy, outrageous, and mostly brilliant, 'Bamboozled' is bound to make trouble. And I can't think of a more important trouble to make.

 

Monster’s Ball (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

'Monster's Ball' leans heavily on Southern Gothic torment and metaphor, as well as bizarre, if historically framed, circumstances.

 

Showtime (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The trouble with 'Showtime' is that it never lets up on its self-congratulatory wink-winking.

 
 
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