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Hulk: Revisited

by Bill Gibron

[9.Jun.08] :. In preparation for the franchise reboot starring Edward Norton, SE&L looks back at Ang Lee's 2003 version of the Big Green Meanie, a criminally marginalized movie that truly didn't deserve the critical or commercial drubbing it took at the time.

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Film DVD Review

The Golden Compass

by Lara Killian

[13.May.08] :. Scruffy and unpolished in the open casting call, Dakota Blue Richards shines in her role as the gutsy heroine.

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The author of ‘The Golden Compass’ doesn’t mince words

by Robert K. Elder [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[13.Dec.07] :. He certainly doesn’t look like a god-killer. But that’s how critics cast him: a deity-smashing heretic, bent on spreading godlessness with children’s tales. No, in person, author...

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Critics say ‘Golden Compass’ is atheist agenda disguised in fantasy

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

[9.Dec.07] :. Since its beginning, critics have denounced the film industry as a godless enterprise leading innocent minds astray. Now, say the critics, the industry is pushing a children’s movie with an...

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Critics say ‘Golden Compass’ is atheist agenda disguised in fantasy

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

[7.Dec.07] :. Since its beginning, critics have denounced the film industry as a godless enterprise leading innocent minds astray. Now, say the critics, the industry is pushing a children’s movie with an...

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Film Review

The Golden Compass

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Dec.07] :. Too bland and disjointed to match up with either set up expectations, The Golden Compass is too familiar to be beguiling, too interested in appeasing masses and selling the Corgi toy line.

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Director says initial reaction to ‘Compass’ hasn’t been golden

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[6.Dec.07] :. Chris Weitz is a moviemaker on the spot. He’s just directed a multi-million dollar movie fantasy, “The Golden Compass,” which opens around the world Friday. And nobody seems willing...

 

‘Compass’ author’s atheism stirs debate on film’s message

by Duane Dudek [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)]

[6.Dec.07] :. Nina Hemmer is a reader. The 11-year-old Shorewood, Wis., girl is plowing through the Bible and hopes “to get to the part about Jesus’ birth by Christmas,” said her mother, Cathy...

 

Ghost Rider (2007)

by Marc Calderaro

[25.Jun.07] :. This script takes generic archetypes and applies them to specific situations only by the cheapest of character-development techniques.

 

Ghost Rider (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Feb.07] :. Now, not only is the Ghost Rider beleaguered by Mephistopheles' incessant demands, but also by this big-screen ignominy.

 

Thank You for Smoking (2005)

by Tiffany White

[14.Dec.06] :. Naylor doesn't need a "human" face; we love him the minute he offers us a light.

 

Thank You for Smoking (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Mar.06] :. The ironies of Thank You for Smoking are not subtle.

 

Lifeguard (1976)

by Samantha Bornemann

[21.Jun.05] :. A year-round California lifeguard, Rick Carlson (pre-gray Sam Elliott) has resisted the pull of others' expectations longer than most of us do.

 

Off the Map (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Mar.05] :. The fact that they're sharing such tragedies while Richard Nixon is resigning suggests a certain harmony of the universe.

 

The Hulk (2003)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[19.Jun.03] :. In Hulk, the comic books' critique of institutional authority and the way U.S. culture perceives and deals with difference is evacuated.