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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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Street Kings
In Street Kings, Tom (Keanu Reeves) is puffy and surly, Neo if he hadn't met Trinity, Neo unsaved.
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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The Great Debaters
The Great Debaters is history by way of Oprah: righteously angry and uplifting, willing to pull a punch when it makes the broader point.
26 Dec 2007
Television
The Shield: The Detective & the Lieutenant
Detective Vic Mackey kills cops, steals money, and beats suspects. How, then, can the man trying to bring him to justice be the "bad guy"?
08 May 2007
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The Marsh (2006)
A film that begins with a dream sequence, and ends up like a nightmare that, thankfully, you forget right after you wake up.
Matthew A. Stern
25 Apr 2007
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The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Based on Giles Foden’s novel of the same name this bold, visceral cinematic-bodyblow takes a political maelstrom and a maniacal dictator and squeezes them into the mould of a genre-picture.
Emma Simmonds
19 Apr 2007
Film
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
That Nicholas is also capable of great horrors, specifically in that he lets others act it for him and gets away with it, makes him, at some level, even more troubling than Amin.
26 Sep 2006
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First Daughter (2004)
This is the film's premise, that Sam's existence is simultaneously ideal and outrageous, typical and desirable.
Cynthia Fuchs
16 Jan 2005
Film
First Daughter (2004)
These 'times' are somehow exponentially more dangerous, but no one refers to 9/11 or the Bush administration, apparently erased in this alternate non-reality.
Cynthia Fuchs
22 Sep 2004
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Phone Booth (2002)
We're surrounded by spin all the time and I think that many times people who spin for a living really don't know the truth anymore because, I guess, they have to believe so much in the spin that they are spinning.
Cynthia Fuchs
13 Jul 2003
Film
Phone Booth (2002)
A function of increasing anxieties about security, surveillance technology, and loss of privacy, this sniper is symptomatic.
Cynthia Fuchs
02 Apr 2003
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The Twilight Zone
The most recent tales from the Zone suggest it can again become a venue for investigating contemporary cultural and moral dilemmas.
Bernadette Adams Davis
29 Sep 2002
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Panic Room (2002)
This 'Panic Room' DVD leaves you to figure the moves and angles.
Cynthia Fuchs
11 Sep 2002
Film
Panic Room (2002)
In lieu of plot or character, 'Panic Room' offers the house.
Cynthia Fuchs
28 Mar 2002
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