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Review of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

By David Poland (216) for Hot Button (85) on 18 May 2008

Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is, in spite of claims otherwise made, a CG version of an Indiana Jones movie…

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Review of The Golden Compass (2007)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 03 Dec 2007

The film was kind of a primer for a series that I will be happy to watch…

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Review of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 03 Dec 2007

The story is so very strong. The music is so magnificent. And with undeniable performances by Depp, Rickman, and Baron Cohen, the film really works…

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Review of There Will Be Blood (2007)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 11 Nov 2007

Defies Fresh/Rotten designation by being SO good and SO bad all in one very confused act of inspiration. Cineastes must go to wallow in it…

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Review of Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 21 Oct 2007

Kept trying to shake the film's subtle charm and unvarnished romantic strokes, but I was steadily, gently pulled in over and over and over again…

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Review of Savages (2006)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 29 Sep 2007

A small, intimate look at a family... but it is, within its own boundaries, nearly perfect…

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Review of Reservation Road (2007)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 29 Sep 2007

It just never finds a clear idea to work…

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Review of The Savages (2007)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 29 Sep 2007

A small, intimate look at a family... but it is, within its own boundaries, nearly perfect…

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Review of Married Life (2008)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 29 Sep 2007

Sexual deceit is what wins the day, without judgment. Interesting%u2026 but I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop…

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Review of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 29 Sep 2007

The thing that is so compelling about this film is that it makes the audience work for it…

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Review of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 29 Sep 2007

A simple, clean, smart idea for a story turned into an agonizingly pretentious mess with world class cinematography and some good performances…

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Review of Eastern Promises (2007)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 29 Sep 2007

Eastern Promises is a good movie, no doubt... but the script might have made a better movie in the hands of a director with less of a vision…

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Review of Hairspray (2007)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 12 Jul 2007

A terrific, good looking, beautifully acted ride and a perfect summer change of pace…

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Review of Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 28 Jun 2007

Did I really just see that? Did someone really have the balls to do something as utterly stupid as that…

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Review of Ocean's Thirteen (2007)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 07 Jun 2007

It's just fun. You want to be challenged? Not your movie…

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Review of Hostel: Part II (2007)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 07 Jun 2007

The most disgusting, degrading, misogynistic, soulless s*** I have ever seen in a movie that is going to be released widely in this country…

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Review of Shrek the Third (2007)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 19 May 2007

I can't say that it hurt to watch. Truth is, it was so nothing that it inspired no feelings at all%u2026 other than disappointment…

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Review of Children of Men (2006)

By David Poland (216) for Hot Button (85) on 22 Dec 2006

My problem with the film was expecting too much, because it kept telling me to expect more…

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Review of Rocky Balboa (2006)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 18 Dec 2006

It's like playing Rocky on the Nintendo when you've already played it on the X-Box…

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Review of Blood Diamond (2006)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 02 Dec 2006

This is the worst of Ed Zwick's films... utterly unfocused, trying to shove virtually every White Man In Africa stereotype in the movie book…

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