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Review of Maria Full of Grace (2004)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 28 Jul 2004

A tense, immediate, no-frills drama about desperate choices made under desperate circumstances, and the consequences of those choices…

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Review of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 28 Jul 2004

In those rare instances when it's not being a dumb comedy, Harold and Kumar is a rather crafty satire of racial stereotypes (which, it must…

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Review of S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 14 Jul 2004

A haunting look at the historical amnesia that envelops countries or regimes after officially sanctioned barbarism…

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Review of The Notebook (2004)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 23 Jun 2004

If you found The Bridges of Madison County too demanding, if you like your romance with an extra helping of syrup, then your movie has arrived…

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Review of Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 23 Jun 2004

Even if you don't like the film and its freak-show depiction of small-town life, it's hard not to admire the commitment of Jon Heder's performance…

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Review of Baadasssss! (2004)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 09 Jun 2004

It's hard to imagine that the chronicle of an artistic ordeal could be this much fun to watch…

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Review of Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 21 Apr 2004

The acting is solid, but the tone is grating…

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Review of I'm Not Scared (2003)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 21 Apr 2004

A thriller of conviction, class and deceptive simplicity…

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Review of Dogville (2003)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 14 Apr 2004

Dogville is not a masterpiece, nor is it an embarrassment. But it is a cinematic Rorschach test, as much fun to praise and to scorn as it is to watch…

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Review of Lost Boys of Sudan (2003)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 31 Mar 2004

In Lost Boys of Sudan, we don't just hear about the steps of assimilation; we see them, and we feel their cumulative effect…

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Review of Confessions of a Burning Man (2003)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 25 Mar 2004

I emerged charmed by some characters, a bit more informed than before about Burning Man as a whole, but decidedly non-immersed…

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Review of Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 18 Mar 2004

The impulses to entertain and enlighten are at odds here, and the final result ends up landing somewhere in between: smart, funny, but rarely…

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Review of Kitchen Stories (2003)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 18 Mar 2004

Might evaporate if it were any drier. But it is a comedy, and a pretty charming one at that…

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Review of Starsky & Hutch (1975)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 04 Mar 2004

This 'Why bother?' spinoff of the '70s undercover cop show is little more than a 99-minute shtickfest built around something resembling a plot…

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Review of Starsky & Hutch (2004)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 04 Mar 2004

This 'Why bother?' spinoff of the '70s undercover cop show is little more than a 99-minute shtickfest built around something resembling a plot…

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Review of Touching the Void (2003)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 12 Feb 2004

A white-knuckle adventure that combines the suspense of great drama with the veracity of documentary…

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Review of House of Sand and Fog (2003)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 26 Dec 2003

This is a movie that has the strength of its convictions, and it's anchored by top-shelf performances that go out on a limb time and again…

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Review of In America (2003)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 11 Dec 2003

If the film is manipulative, at least it's subtly manipulative…

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Review of One from the Heart (1982)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 25 Nov 2003

It still feels like an exercise, but it's a beautiful one…

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Review of Bad Santa (2003)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 25 Nov 2003

If you think you can shake your head and mutter, 'That's just wrong,' as you laugh your lungs out, or if you're sick of artificial yuletide…

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