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The Express
Again and again, Ernie (Rob Brown) faces down racist thug defenders, his singular prowess signaled by the film's slow motion and big music.
09 Oct 2008
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Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008
What 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.
09 Sep 2008
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Vantage Point
It’s almost rather brilliant the way the film betrays and sabotages itself as it comes down the home stretch.
20 Jul 2008
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Smart People
Smart People is determined to showcase familial quirk in multiple dimensions.
10 Apr 2008
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Vantage Point
As Vantage Point becomes increasingly busy with personal betrayals and redemptions, the ostensible politics, reductive to begin with, fall by the wayside.
21 Feb 2008
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American Dreamz (2006)
Here's the rub: does it matter that consumers know all about the badness and the cynical ambition, but watch anyway?
Cynthia Fuchs
20 Apr 2006
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Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
Much like John Moore's Behind Enemy Lines, Phoenix splices together traditional and current action movie clichés and rhythms.
Cynthia Fuchs
27 Feb 2005
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In Good Company (2004)
In Good Company pushes Carter and Dan up against one another, so that they can work through their mutual anxieties, resentments, and jealousies.
Cynthia Fuchs
13 Jan 2005
Film
Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
Most remarkably, after what looks like weeks in the desert sun, no one ever gets a sunburn.
Cynthia Fuchs
16 Dec 2004
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The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Even as it lays down a scary geopolitical scenario and a few partisan gauntlets, The Day After Tomorrow aims to please.
Cynthia Fuchs
12 Oct 2004
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The Alamo (2004)
'A lot of people who have seen this movie are surprised that we have depicted these people warts and all,' says historian Stephen L. Hardin.
Cynthia Fuchs
28 Sep 2004
Film
Day After Tomorrow (2004)
As the 'eye of the storm' speeds across the screen, instantly freezing everything in its path, Jack looks up to see a flag, turned spastically solid in a second. Here it is, the money shot: the emblematic United States, stuck in time, blind to consequences, fixated on its own reckless self-love.
Cynthia Fuchs
27 May 2004
Film
The Alamo (2004)
Standing on a rooftop at the Alamo, the apparently valiant and suddenly insightful Davy Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton) pulls out his fiddle.
Cynthia Fuchs
07 Apr 2004
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The History Channel Presents: The Alamo
At the end of the day, the truth can never compete with a good story.
James Oliphant
09 Feb 2004
Film
Far From Heaven (2002)
For Haynes, much of this surface is simultaneously supple and precise, 'girly-swirly,' as he terms it.
Cynthia Fuchs
28 Nov 2002
Film
Far From Heaven (2002)
Just beneath this conservative façade lies a complicated and progressive commentary on the present that Todd Haynes leaves to the viewer to interpret.
Lucas Hilderbrand
06 Nov 2002
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The Rookie (2002)
The conflicts are familiar, but 'The Rookie' presents them admirably and resolves them without sap overload.
Renie Scolaro Mora
28 Mar 2002
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