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Review of Boarding Gate (2007)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 20 Mar 2008

Call it a cinema of guilty pleasure, and don't worry if you fall asleep in your seat after the sex scene is over. You won't be alone…

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Review of Drillbit Taylor (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 20 Mar 2008

Apart from a few mildly funny bits of slapstick, Drillbit Taylor doesn't come near the level of comedy that Judd Apatow and screenwriter Seth…

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Review of Never Back Down (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 09 Mar 2008

Yesterday's Fight Club is today's Combat Club in this battle of teen six-pack abs…

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Review of Married Life (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 08 Mar 2008

There's gentile satire here, to go along with suspense and sexual intrigue, but the tone of the piece stays too melodramatic to hit its potential…

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Review of CJ7 (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 08 Mar 2008

CJ7 has some moments of sweetness and CGI inflected humor, but comes off as slight compared to the filmmaker's previous efforts…

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Review of Blindsight (2006)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 08 Mar 2008

Visually stunning and emotionally moving, Blindsight is real joy through and through…

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Review of Chop Shop (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 05 Mar 2008

Director/co-writer Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart) gives a candid window into America's impoverished underbelly via a Queens junkyard neighborhood…

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Review of Crimes of Passion (1984)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 05 Mar 2008

The divine madness of Ken Russell is in full bloom here…

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Review of It's a Free World... (2007)

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

Realistically filmed, but limited by narrative cuts that hopscotch through time, It's a Free World is a flawed film that overflows with ideas…

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Review of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

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

Frances McDormand executive produced this deft and sophisticated screwball comedy that's more than just a perfect movie for grandmothers…

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Review of Semi-Pro (2008)

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

Will Farrell loiters in the comfort of his signature punch-drunk delivery of outrageous lines and sight gags in a '70s era parody that extends…

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Review of Standard Operating Procedure (2013)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 22 Feb 2008

With his trademark use of slow-motion images and direct-to-camera interviews, Errol Morris spells out the extent of one of the biggest cover-ups…

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Review of Standard Operating Procedure (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 22 Feb 2008

With his trademark use of slow-motion images and direct-to-camera interviews, Errol Morris spells out the extent of one of the biggest cover-ups…

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Review of Chicago 10 (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 22 Feb 2008

Here is an unabashed call to a new age of protests. Is it agit prop propaganda? You bet…

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Review of Midnight Express (1978)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 21 Feb 2008

Despite the negative hullabaloo Midnight Express provoked for its brutal characterization of Turkish prison officials, director Alan Parker's…

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Review of Vantage Point (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 21 Feb 2008

What Travis has done is nothing short of create a new kind of American action film that feels European in the same way that William Friedkin's…

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Review of The Counterfeiters (2007)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 16 Feb 2008

Based on actual events, this is a dramatic war movie that shows the inner conflict at work in a group of prisoners stuck in an ethical quandary…

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Review of Jumper (2008)

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

The eye-popping visuals soon devolve into a visual white noise, and you're left to ponder why you didn't make a better movie selection…

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Review of Definitely, Maybe (2008)

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

For a Valentine's Day romantic comedy Definitely, Maybe hits all the right notes of commitment, honesty and maturity that go into a young father's…

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Review of In Bruges (2008)

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

Here is an unapologetically irreverent European flick that makes subtle character development as effortless as Colin Ferrell's upward bent eyebrows…

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