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.

Reviews

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

If religion, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, is the fashionable substitute for belief, then The Da Vinci Code, judging by author Dan Brown’s quasi religious following, has asserted itself as the fashionable substitute for religion

Marc Acherman

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The Da Vinci Code

In straining to make its spaces and secrets 'scary', Da Vinci literalizes thoughts and dreams, and abandons mystery and nuance.

Cynthia Fuchs

Film

Wimbledon (2004)

Theirs is an altogether formulaic affair -- complete with wishing on comets, lolling by fountains, running from paparazzi.

Cynthia Fuchs

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The Reckoning (2004)

The Reckoning raises significant questions concerning how news and history are shaped by those with the power to name them.

Cynthia Fuchs

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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

When the men's opposition is revealed in its tenderest moments, you recall that Weir's work can be supple and strange.

Cynthia Fuchs

Film

Dogville (2003)

The accusation that the film is 'anti-American' says less about Von Trier than it does about the American psyche.

Todd R. Ramlow

Film

The Reckoning (2004)

The Reckoning raises significant questions concerning how news and history are shaped by those with the power to name them.

Cynthia Fuchs

Film

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

When Master and Commander allows for deviance from such straight-ahead expectations, it is more interesting than when it heaves ho for the thrill-kill.

Cynthia Fuchs

Film

The Heart of Me (2002)

Love is a many splendored thing. Unless, of course, it tears through your life like a cluster bomb.

Kevin Devine

Film

Gangster No. 1 (2000)

Gangster No. 1's style and plot are stale.

Kirsten Markson

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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.

If religion, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, is the fashionable substitute for belief, then The Da Vinci Code, judging by author Dan Brown’s quasi religious following, has asserted itself as the fashionable substitute for religion

In straining to make its spaces and secrets 'scary', Da Vinci literalizes thoughts and dreams, and abandons mystery and nuance.

Is there any role that Mary Lynn Rajskub can't make strange? I mean, delightfully and eloquently strange?"

Theirs is an altogether formulaic affair -- complete with wishing on comets, lolling by fountains, running from paparazzi.

The Reckoning raises significant questions concerning how news and history are shaped by those with the power to name them.

When the men's opposition is revealed in its tenderest moments, you recall that Weir's work can be supple and strange.

The accusation that the film is 'anti-American' says less about Von Trier than it does about the American psyche.

The Reckoning raises significant questions concerning how news and history are shaped by those with the power to name them.

When Master and Commander allows for deviance from such straight-ahead expectations, it is more interesting than when it heaves ho for the thrill-kill.

Love is a many splendored thing. Unless, of course, it tears through your life like a cluster bomb.

Gangster No. 1's style and plot are stale.