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Starring:
Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Kristen Johnson, Bryan Greenberg,
Can…
Review:
The first big-studio movie released in 2009 has a damn fine chance
of being the worst. Bride Wars isn’t just chick-flick hell
for guys, it should numb the skulls of moviegoers of all sexes and
ages. Poor Anne Hathaway has this bottomfeeder playing while
Academy voters are considering her great performance in Rachel
Getting Married for a Best Actress Oscar. Let me say that
Hathaway doesn’t dishonor herself the way Eddie Murphy did when the
opening of the repulsive Norbit shut down his chances at
Oscar gold for Dreamgirls. Hathaway, give a cheer, plays
this flatulent farce as if it were real. Not so her costar Kate
Hudson, also one of the film’s producers, who hits one long
strident note matched only by the script, which took three writers
to shriek out. Hathaway and Hudson play…

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Starring:
Adam Sandler, Keri Russell
Review:
A return to the cloying sweetness of Big Daddy
territory for Adam Sandler. He’s a hotel maintenance guy who tells
stories to his niece and nephew that sort of come true. The
shortage of wit and the excess of goo can be summed up in Sandler’s
line to these children of divorce: “I’m like the stink on your feet
— I’ll always be there.”

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Starring:
Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Almudena Alcazar, Ana Ayora,
Haley…
Review:
From John Grogan’s bestseller comes a film about an untrainable
Lab, named after Bob Marley, who teaches Grogan (Owen Wilson) and
his wife (Jennifer Aniston) what matters in life. Watching the
stars try to out-cutesy the mutt is one for the puke bucket.

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Starring:
Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman, Dror Harazi, Yehezkel
La…
Review:
A potent and profound document of war and its aftermath done as
a cartoon — what’s that all about? Watch and learn, cynics,
even if you think animation is strictly for kung-fu pandas and you
know squat about assassinated Lebanese president Bashir Gemayel.
For what’s on view in Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir,
submitted for Oscar consideration by Israel as both
foreign-language film and animated feature, is hallucinatory
brilliance in the service of understanding the psychic damage of
war.
Folman, a former Israeli soldier who served during the 1982
Israeli-Lebanese war, has repressed his memories of the invasion of
Beirut — more specifically, the massacre of Palestinian
civilians at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Though the
killings were committed by the Christian…

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Starring:
Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, Rhys Darby, John
Mic…
Review:
Jim Carrey took his lumps for going serious in The Number
23, so he’s back to the comedy well of Liar Liar, in
which he played a lawyer forced to tell the truth. Now he’s a loan
officer forced to say yes to applicants and to life. If you’re
thinking “yuck,” you’re right. I added the extra star for Zooey
Deschanel, who is so delicious as his honey that you want not to
say no to Yes Man.

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Starring:
Kate Beckinsale, Alan Alda, Matt Dillon, Vera Farmiga
Review:
In the years since 1976’s All the President’s Men, when
little boys and girls wanted to morph into Woodward and Bernstein,
journalists have become pariahs the public can’t stand, let alone
trust. So it’s ballsy for starters that writer-director Rod Lurie
(The Contender) has chosen to make a fierce,fire-breathing
movie, laced with stinging laughs, about a D.C. reporter, Rachel
Armstrong (Kate Beckinsale), who prefers to go to jail rather than
rat out a source. Rachel’s story blows the cover of CIA operative
Erica Van Doren (Vera Farmiga), another soccer mom at the school
Rachel’s son attends. The feds, personified by special prosecutor
Patton Dubois (a splendid, sneaky Matt Dillon), are suddenly eager
to throw Rachel’s ass behind bars. Her newspaper hires hotshot
lawyer Albert…

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Starring:
Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Carice
Va…
Review:
Tom Cruise starring in the fact-based story of a plot to kill
Hitler by Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg sounds like Oscar bait.
It isn’t. And the sooner you accept it, the more fun you’ll have at
this satisfying B movie. Hearing Cruise’s American accent is
jarring at first. But his British co-stars, including Kenneth
Branagh, Tom Wilkinson and Eddie Izzard, don’t sound German either.
No worries. X-Men director Bryan Singer and his Usual
Suspects screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie will keep you in
the game. Operation Valkyrie referred to a shadow government that
would control Germany in case the Führer (David
Bamber) bit the bullet. Stauffenberg and his cohorts planned to
assassinate Hitler, kick in Valkyrie and forge a truce with the
Allies. Since he lost his left eye in battle, as…

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Starring:
Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes
Review:
Delicate business is being transacted here concerning the nature
of guilt, legal and moral. OK, that should scare off the
action-junkie crowd. Now we can talk. Director Stephen Daldry and
playwright David Hare, collaborators on The Hours, have
done something profoundly right in bringing Bernhard Schlink’s
controversial German novel to the screen: They’ve made it personal.
What if the person you love turns out to be a monster? That
question arises when 15-year-old virgin Michael Berg (David Kross)
starts a summer affair in postwar Berlin with tram conductor Hanna
Schmitz (Kate Winslet). After sex, Michael reads to her from the
works of literary giants, and then this older woman who calls him
Kid disappears.
Eight years later, Michael, now a law student, finds Hanna
again, revealed as a…

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Starring:
Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes
Review:
Delicate business is being transacted here concerning the nature
of guilt, legal and moral. OK, that should scare off the
action-junkie crowd. Now we can talk. Director Stephen Daldry and
playwright David Hare, collaborators on The Hours, have
done something profoundly right in bringing Bernhard Schlink’s
controversial German novel to the screen: They’ve made it personal.
What if the person you love turns out to be a monster? That
question arises when 15-year-old virgin Michael Berg (David Kross)
starts a summer affair in postwar Berlin with tram conductor Hanna
Schmitz (Kate Winslet). After sex, Michael reads to her from the
works of literary giants, and then this older woman who calls him
Kid disappears.
Eight years later, Michael, now a law student, finds Hanna
again, revealed as a…

Rating: 3 Stars ]]> http://www.kino.gazetki.info/2008/12/10/the-reader/feed/ http://www.kino.gazetki.info/2008/12/10/gran-torino/ http://www.kino.gazetki.info/2008/12/10/gran-torino/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:36:40 +0000 http://www.kino.gazetki.info/2008/12/10/gran-torino/

Starring:
Clint Eastwood
Review:
Clint Eastwood has hinted that his role as bigoted Korean War
veteran Walt Kowalski — a gun-toting widower living in
Detroit near the struggling Ford auto plant and even nearer to the
Asian immigrants crowding him out of his run-down, racially mixed
hood — may be his last role as an actor. Eastwood, 78, has
two Oscars for directing Unforgiven and Million Dollar
Baby, and two nominations for starring in them. But an Oscar
for acting? Not yet. Get busy, Academy.
I don’t think Eastwood will ever turn down a juicy role. But
Gran Torino, named after the 1972 car that Walt garages
and polishes like a symbol of his idealized past, is a humdinger of
a valedictory. Directed by Eastwood from a script by newcomer Nick
Schenk, Gran Torino is Eastwood’s hell-raising salute to
every…

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