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Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience. [10 September 2008] American Gangster: Motives, Outsiders, & BrandingAmerican Gangster struggles to find fresh ways to tell its story within the confines of the traditional crime drama. Impossible, maybe, but entertaining nonetheless. [22 May 2008] Reviews
Body of LiesBody of Lies grants Ferris the usual moral rightness -- even as he's committing questionable acts, he means well. [10 October 2008] 
American GangsterAs much as American Gangster loves Frank's intelligence and charisma, it must also condemn his criminality. [2 November 2007] 
A Good Year (2006)As lovely as she may be, Fanny has her work cut out for her in A Good Year. [10 November 2006] 
Gladiator: Extended Edition (2000)It's a bad sign for your making-of doc when the most interesting folks to listen to are the studio weasels. [23 September 2005] 
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)As history, it is mightily revisionist -- a blacksmith named turns inadvertent defender of Jerusalem, devoted to the notion that Muslims and Christians can get along. [6 May 2005] 
Black Hawk Down: Superbit (2001)Black Hawk Down illustrates well the absurdity and chaos of urban warfare: there's no ground to be won, no victory to be claimed. [14 June 2004] 
Matchstick Men (2003)The distinctive thunk-thunk-thunk of Angela's skateboard punctuates his first look at her from behind his smoke-clouded windshield. [11 September 2003] 
Black Hawk Down (2001)An action movie dressed up like an art film, 'Black Hawk Down' is not about betrayal or anger, but heroism and patriotic fervor. [13 June 2002] 
The Gathering StormThe point in 'The Gathering Storm' is that Churchill is 'human', that he has faults. [7 May 2002] 
Hannibal (2001)As his immense popularity suggests, there is something about Lecter that appeals to 'us', there appears to be some level on which 'we' all wish we could be a little more like him, which is precisely what the filmmakers are banking on. And this is, in the end, the scariest thing about 'Hannibal' -- its perverse worship of the cannibalistic Doctor. [1 January 1995] 
Black Hawk Down (2001)An action movie dressed up like an art film, 'Black Hawk Down' is not about betrayal or anger, but heroism and patriotic fervor. Blogs
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