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Review of Lust, Caution (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 11 Oct 2007

In the broad strokes and beautiful particularity of its bittersweet love story, Lust, Caution could not come from any other place but China…

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Review of Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 11 Oct 2007

Every time the camera finally settles on Blanchett's regal cheekbones, it's a relief…

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Review of The Heartbreak Kid (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 03 Oct 2007

[The Farrelly Brothers] have taken what was a minor classic and annihilated everything that was funny about it…

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Review of Into the Wild (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 27 Sep 2007

In its expansive spirit of investigation and embrace of life as a creative act, Into the Wild comes as close as any picture ever made to capturing…

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Review of Eastern Promises (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 19 Sep 2007

Eastern Promises is a subtle and precisely calibrated work of astonishing cumulative power…

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Review of In the Valley of Elah (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 19 Sep 2007

Elah uses a slightly plodding police procedural format as an opening to a discussion about the effect the war is having on returning soldiers…

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Review of Death Sentence (1974)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 30 Aug 2007

As rancid as its title is lurid, an example of pulp fiction run amok…

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Review of Death Sentence (1968)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 30 Aug 2007

As rancid as its title is lurid, an example of pulp fiction run amok…

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Review of Death Sentence (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 30 Aug 2007

As rancid as its title is lurid, an example of pulp fiction run amok…

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Review of The 11th Hour (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 30 Aug 2007

No matter what time it is in the grand, cosmic scheme of things, The 11th Hour arrives about a day late and an eco-dollar short of An Inconvenient…

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Review of The Nanny Diaries (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 23 Aug 2007

There's a heart-sinking moment early in The Nanny Diaries when it becomes apparent that every literary gimmick that seemed arch and clever…

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Review of Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 23 Aug 2007

The Wikipedia page on gurning lists Atkinson right behind Jim Carrey as one of the world's leading practitioners of grotesque face-making…

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Review of The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 01 Aug 2007

From that first moment to the last of this peerlessly mounted action thriller, the chase never stops…

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Review of No Reservations (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 26 Jul 2007

You don't need to have been a fan of the terrific German film Mostly Martha that inspired this remake, or even to have seen the original, to…

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Review of The Simpsons Movie (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 24 Jul 2007

The movie isn't a disaster, just a disappointment…

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Review of Goya's Ghosts (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 18 Jul 2007

There's an unfortunate tendency in this movie for the forces of history to overtake scenes…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 08 Jul 2007

For all its gloominess, Order of the Phoenix is, in several ways, the best Potter picture yet…

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Review of Black Sheep (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 05 Jul 2007

Black Sheep never rises above sensation and splatter, or goes beyond the one thing it does best: It bites…

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Review of Transformers (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 01 Jul 2007

As a movie, Transformers is mostly muscle car, but it has enough of a brain under its hood to know how, and when, to be funny…

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Review of Ratatouille (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 28 Jun 2007

This is an animated movie that's been made for adults, although kids probably will enjoy it, too…

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