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Wendy and Lucy

December 10th, 2008 · No Comments


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Starring:
Michelle Williams
Review:
Simple story, beautifully told. A distressed dropout named Wendy
(the sublime Michelle Williams) and her dog Lucy hop in her beat-up
Honda and leave Indiana for Alaska, Wendy’s cautious hope for a new
frontier. But when the car dies in Oregon and Lucy goes missing,
Wendy faces hard choices and a hard-pressed America that keeps
closing doors. I won’t say more, except that director and co-writer
Kelly Reichardt (Old Joy) is a true cinema poet who works
miracles in miniature. And she finds the perfect collaborator in
Williams, an actress of grit and amazing grace.

Rating: 3 Stars

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Revolutionary Road

December 10th, 2008 · No Comments


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Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn,
D…
Review:
What does a cult 1961 Richard Yates novel about a 1950s marriage
rotting in the burbs have to say to a new century? Plenty, and hold
on, because the raw and riveting Revolutionary Road hits
you where it hurts. To hear Kate Winslet, as April Wheeler, express
her desire “to be wonderful in the world” is to be reminded of
stifled urges with no expiration date.
Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, as her husband, Frank, could not
be better in the roles of young marrieds who (shades of Mad
Men) move from Manhattan to the suburbs, promising themselves
it’s all just temporary. April dreams of taking off for Paris,
where she’ll work while Frank pursues his artistic impulses. Add
two kids, thwarted ambitions, adultery — Frank with a
secretary (a vivid Zoe Kazan) and April with a married
neighbor…

Rating: 3 Stars

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Cadillac Records

December 4th, 2008 · No Comments


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Starring:
Emmanuelle Chriqui, Adrien Brody, Gabrielle Union, Beyonce
Knowle…
Review:
Beyonc‟ Knowles could have nabbed an Oscar nomination as Best
Supporting Actress. That’s how good she is playing it all sexy,
sassy and druggy as Etta James, the R&B singer who found the
soul in songs like “At Last.” Too bad for Knowles that she’s only
part of Darnell Martin’s rushed mess of a movie that jams the story
of Chicago-based Chess Records into one incoherent package. Adrien
Brody plays Leonard Chess, who started the company in the 1950s
with his brother Phil (we hardly see him) to record great blues
artists and pay them with Caddys. There’s Jeffrey Wright as Muddy
Waters, Eamonn Walker’s as Howlin’ Wolf, and a lively Mos Def as
Chuck Berry. It’s all a blur, except for the music. That’s workin’.

Rating: 2 Stars

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Australia

November 25th, 2008 · No Comments


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Starring:
Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson, Bryan
B…
Review:
If looks were everything, director Baz Luhrmann’s epic salute to
his native land would be the movie of the year. But, crikey, a
padded script bloated with subplots and shameless sentimentality
can wear you down. Nicole Kidman pushes way too hard (and the
strain shows) as Lady Sarah Ashley, a Brit snob who comes to
Australia in 1939 to catch her husband cheating and instead finds
him murdered. It’s not long before she takes over his cattle ranch,
befriends a half-caste boy, Nullah (cutie Brandon Walters),
victimized by the government’s racial policies against Aborigines,
and beds down with the Drover (a lively, sexy Hugh Jackman), the
cowboy who drives her cheeky bulls to market. There’s also World
War II, the 1942 Japanese bombing of Darwin and umpteen choruses of
“Over the Rainbow,” the…

Rating: 2 Stars

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Frost/Nixon

November 25th, 2008 · No Comments



Starring:
Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Rebecca Hall, Toby
Jo…
Review:
A film version of a play about two talking heads. Please. It
shouldn’t work at all. But it does work, spectacularly, as a matter
of fact. It helps that the two people are disgraced President
Richard M. Nixon and British charm boy David Frost, the TV
interviewer who waved millions in front of the Watergate trickster
to lure him on camera for the trial he never had. Ancient history?
Well, the interview took place in 1977, and we know the outcome in
advance. “I let down the American people,” Nixon admitted to Frost
and an audience of more than 45 million. All the more remarkable,
then, that director Ron Howard has turned Peter Morgan’s stage
success into a grabber of a movie laced with tension, stinging wit
and potent human drama.
Start with “magnificent” to describe Frank Langella’s…

Rating: 3 Stars

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Milk

November 25th, 2008 · No Comments


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Starring:
Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, James Franco
Review:
Maybe you don’t know a damn thing about gay activist Harvey
Milk. Maybe you ought to know that President-elect Barack Obama
isn’t the only community organizer who went on to make a
difference. Maybe thoughtful filmmaking, no matter how incendiary
and intimate, isn’t worth squat at an infantilized multiplex. Stop
me now. There’s really no maybe about Milk, directed with
a poet’s eye by Gus Van Sant from a richly detailed script by
Big Love writer Dustin Lance Black. It’s a total triumph,
brimming with humor, heart, sexual heat, political provocation and
a crying need to stir things up, just like Harvey did. If there’s a
better movie around this year, with more bristling purpose, I sure
as hell haven’t seen it.
San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay
man to be…

Rating: 4 Stars

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Twilight

November 21st, 2008 · No Comments


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Starring:
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli,

Review:
Bummer. The vampires have no fangs. The humans are humdrum. The
special effects and makeup define cheeseball. And the movie crowds
in so many characters from Stephenie Meyer?s book that Catherine
Hardwicke (Thirteen) is less a director than a traffic
cop. But there?s a reason that Twilight has already become
the movie equivalent of a bestseller: The love story has teeth.
Props to Kristen Stewart, 18, and Robert Pattinson, 22, for
playing this uncool-girl-meets-undead-boy story with genuine
romantic ardor. They?re both terrific. Even when the movie gets
really silly, they never do. Stewart (Panic Room, Into
the Wild) brings just the right blend of ferocity and feeling
to the role of Bella Swan, the loner from Phoenix who leaves her
mom to live with her police-chief dad in rarely sunny…

Rating: 2 Stars

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Dukes

November 19th, 2008 · No Comments


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Starring:
Chazz Palminteri, Robert Davi, Peter Bogdanovich, Miriam
Margolye…
Review:
Here’s the little movie that could, a potent directing debut for
actor Robert Davi, an immortal Bond villain in License to
Kill. Davi plays Danny DePasquale, a star in his 20s when he
and his chubby-chaser pal George Zucco (Chazz Palminteri, in top
form) lead a doo-wop group called the Dukes. Cut ahead a few
decades, and the guys are struggling in California, working in an
Italian restaurant run by their Aunt Vee (Miriam Margolyes) and
hassling their manager (a terrific Peter Bogdanovich) to repackage
them as an oldies group. Danny and George dream of turning Aunt
Vee’s trattoria into a doo-wop club. But who has the bucks? So they
cook up a heist that defines the term “fool’s gold.” For all the
kickass fun, Davi offers a moving portrait of a man caught in the
process of trying to…

Rating: 3 Stars

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The Dukes

November 19th, 2008 · No Comments


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Starring:
Robert Davi, Chazz Palminteri
Review:
Here’s the little movie that could, a potent directing debut for
actor Robert Davi, an immortal Bond villain in License to
Kill. Davi plays Danny DePasquale, a star in his 20s when he
and his chubby-chaser pal George Zucco (Chazz Palminteri, in top
form) lead a doo-wop group called the Dukes. Cut ahead a few
decades, and the guys are struggling in California, working in an
Italian restaurant run by their Aunt Vee (Miriam Margolyes) and
hassling their manager (a terrific Peter Bogdanovich) to repackage
them as an oldies group. Danny and George dream of turning Aunt
Vee’s trattoria into a doo-wop club. But who has the bucks? So they
cook up a heist that defines the term “fool’s gold.” For all the
kickass fun, Davi offers a moving portrait of a man caught in the
process of trying to…

Rating: 3 Stars

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Christmas Tale

November 11th, 2008 · No Comments


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Starring:
Catherine Deneuve
Review:
Holiday films in the hands of Hollywood make me puke. Mom is
usually expiring from something terminal while the family dresses
the Christmas tree with brave smiles. This French knockout,
tough-minded and all the more affecting for it, turned my head
around. It hits hard — even the laughs are killers. I should
say that Mom (Catherine Deneuve, still an actress and beauty to die
for) is slipping away from liver cancer.
So what makes this one magic? Start with director Arnaud
Desplechin, who co-wrote the deft script with Emmanuel Bourdieu.
Desplechin (Kings and Queen, How I Got Into an
Argument) is a world-class filmmaker, not some studio hack. He
can maintain a light touch even in the face of tragedy. He can
layer a film so that it’s always springing surprises. He can
reference…

Rating: 3 Stars

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