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Review of Saw V (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 24 Oct 2008

Everything after its gory pit-and-the-pendulum opening scare sequence is downhill in the fifth and potentially last installment in a horror…

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Review of JCVD (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 17 Oct 2008

Van Damme gives a touching direct-to-camera monologue about his career and outlook on life that is the film's virtuosic centerpiece…

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Review of W. (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 15 Oct 2008

As a brief overview of the personal and political experiences of a man whose actions will effect America for generations to come W…

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Review of Good Dick (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 14 Oct 2008

A distinctly unlikable movie about dislikable people, writer/director/actor Marianna Palka's mumblecore version of dysfunctional romance is…

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Review of Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 13 Oct 2008

Kevin Smith hasn't matured enough to actually make a good comedy, but he has accrued enough casting wisdom to elevate his latest homegrown…

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Review of Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 11 Oct 2008

Director Mike Leigh creates an air-headed vision of inner contentment in the guise of 30-year-old British primary school teacher and student…

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Review of The Secret Life of Bees (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 11 Oct 2008

The Secret Life of Bees is further evidence that there should be a moratorium on secret-life-of-anything movies…

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Review of Reality Bites (1994)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 11 Oct 2008

Remember Gen X? This is why you forgot it…

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Review of Let the Right One In (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 10 Oct 2008

Novelist/screenwriter John Ajvide Lindqvist's script is a study in connecting the inner lives of emotionally bound characters to a suspenseful…

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Review of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 25 Sep 2008

Who needs to go to New York for a weekend when you can let Nick and Norah take you with them…

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Review of Appaloosa (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 19 Sep 2008

Jeremy Irons is miscast as the film's politically driven baddie, but the easy rapport between Harris and Mortensen more than compensates for…

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Review of The Class (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 17 Sep 2008

The Class (Entre les murs) proves to be worthy of its recent Palme d'Or win in Cannes, under the rigorous attention of director Laurent Cantet…

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Review of Lakeview Terrace (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 11 Sep 2008

Strong performances from its talented ensemble cast don't compensate for its narrative flaws…

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Review of Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 06 Sep 2008

Lee's muddle of inappropriate camera angles, overemphasized exposition, and overall inability to get beyond the scope of the source material…

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Review of Burn After Reading (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 04 Sep 2008

The writing/directing team of Joel and Ethan Coen create a laugh-a-minute black comedy that pokes fun at America's surveillance-dominated existence,…

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Review of Towelhead (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 03 Sep 2008

Towelhead is the most disgusting, ethically reprehensible, and irresponsible film to come out of the 21st century's first decade…

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Review of Choke (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 01 Sep 2008

Choke is the most assertively anti-mainstream film of the year, and to that end it succeeds as a positive form of cinematic/social rebellion…

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Review of Year of the Fish (2007)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 01 Sep 2008

Although writer/director David Kaplan attempts to elevate his amateur narrative attempt with the same rotoscoping animation technique that…

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Review of Choke (1971)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 01 Sep 2008

Choke is the most assertively anti-mainstream film of the year, and to that end it succeeds as a positive form of cinematic/social rebellion…

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Review of Humboldt County (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 31 Aug 2008

The fish-out-of-water story shows the potential for a specific environment to transform an individual's consciousness, while never glamorizing…

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