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Review of XXY (2007)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

The movie's images are frequently startling, its performances sharply observed and quirky, and its take on its subject matter undeniably provocative…

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Review of Control (2013)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

The film leaves you with the impression of an almost painfully innocent young singer, for whom alienation was, alas, far more than a pose…

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Review of Zodiac (2007)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

There are no tidy, last-minute plot twists to make you feel good in Fincher's Zodiac, just focus -- to keep an audience focused -- and the…

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Review of In Bruges (2008)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

It plays really engagingly, with the leads doing a wonderful Mutt and Jeff act and the camera lingering lovingly over scenery that looks awfully…

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Review of Feast of Love (2007)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

A would-be-wistful dramedy that's almost insufferably full of itself…

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Review of Persepolis (2007)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

The film's nuanced view of social issues is complemented by lovely black-and-white animation work that blends Islamic motifs into a sort of…

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Review of King Kong (1976)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

It takes a while to get everybody to Skull Island, about 70 minutes, but it's time extremely well-spent…

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Review of Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

Certain to inspire both outrage and sorrow, Alex Gibney's harrowing documentary -- about the torture and abuse of suspected terrorists in U.S…

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Review of There Will Be Blood (2007)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

This sometimes magnificent, decidedly strange film is a portrait of a terrible, rapacious man…

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Review of Control (2007)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

The film leaves you with the impression of an almost painfully innocent young singer, for whom alienation was, alas, far more than a pose…

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Review of The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

Apart from having thus created the first road-picture homework assignment, Anderson isn't breaking new ground here…

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Review of 3:10 to Yuma (1957)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

Nothing terribly original happens in this remake of a 1957 semi-classic that starred Glenn Ford and Van Heflin, but everything happens smoothly…

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Review of King Kong (2012)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

It takes a while to get everybody to Skull Island, about 70 minutes, but it's time extremely well-spent…

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Review of Atonement (1971)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

Joe Wright directs Atonement with an eye to framing each performance with spectacularly vivid images, including a genuinely breathtaking tracking…

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Review of Once (2009)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

So this is how you make a low-budget musical these days…

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Review of Control (2004)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

The film leaves you with the impression of an almost painfully innocent young singer, for whom alienation was, alas, far more than a pose…

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Review of Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

With pratfalls, yucks, a crying jag, and what is starting to seem like the requisite flash of nudity, Jason Segel becomes this year's adorably…

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Review of Talk to Me (1996)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

In its wrenching shift from farce to tragedy, and its evocation of the bridge offered by friendship, Talk to Me tells it, and keeps on tellin…

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Review of The Illusionist (2006)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

The line between truth and illusion is blurred so persuasively that for a moment or two, you may even believe that a romantic costume drama…

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Review of The Queen (2006)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

A lesser director might make all of this deadly earnest, but Frears treats it as what you might call a tragi-comedy of manners, perfectly serious…

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