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Review of Trixie (2000)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for Variety (12,700) on 31 Dec 2006

Despite a star cast (Nick Nolte, Emily Watson), Rudolph's comedy-mystery is a minor, trivial film that tries to be whimsical but lacks humor…

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Review of The Dead Girl (2006)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 29 Dec 2006

Moncrieff deserves kudos for making a femme-driven film, but it doesn't really enagage us emotionally in the tragic tale of a dead hooker and…

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Review of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 28 Dec 2006

One of the strangest and wildest cult flicks to be ever financed by a major studio (Fox), this sequel has not aged well but it serves as a…

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Review of The Fisher King (1991)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 28 Dec 2006

As original as Gilliam is as a filmmaker, he too falls victims to Hollywood cliches as far as the portrait of the homeless is concerned (here…

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Review of My Family (1986)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 27 Dec 2006

Too sprawling and disappointingly sentimental, this family saga is nonetheless Gregory Nava's breakthrough feature, made on a larger canvas…

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Review of Monument Ave. (1998)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 27 Dec 2006

Though very much in the vein of Scorsese's masterpiece Mean Streets, Ted Demme's bleak and downbeat tale has its distinctive merits, not least…

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Review of Everything Relative (1996)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for Variety (12,700) on 27 Dec 2006

A poor imitation of The Big Chill--lesbian style--poorly executed and schematically written…

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Review of Entropy (1999)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 27 Dec 2006

Joanou's work has always suffered from excessive style and pretention, and this movie, though more personal than his studio pictures, is no exception…

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Review of Miller's Crossing (1990)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 27 Dec 2006

Loosley based on Hammett's novel and Chicago's Capone-O'Bannion gang war, the film is more impressive visually than thematically, though new…

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Review of Michael (1996)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for Variety (12,700) on 27 Dec 2006

Travolta's charismatic presence is the only positive element in Nora Ephron's flawed romantic fable marred by rough narrative spots and scattered…

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Review of Mallrats (1995)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 27 Dec 2006

Ragged, messy, and flat, this is Kevin Smith's sophomore jinx; coming right after Clerks, it was a huge artistic and commercial flop…

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Review of Modern Romance (1981)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 27 Dec 2006

In Albert Brooks' second comedy, which is both funny and irritating (some of it by design), he plays a nuerotic film editor who's unable to…

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Review of My Family (1995)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 27 Dec 2006

Too sprawling and disappointingly sentimental, this family saga is nonetheless Gregory Nava's breakthrough feature, made on a larger canvas…

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Review of Monsters, Inc. (2001)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 27 Dec 2006

As witty and inspired as the company's previous animations, this magical tale benefits from its setting, Monstropolis, where monsters of ecery…

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Review of Everything Put Together (2001)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for Variety (12,700) on 27 Dec 2006

A riveting haunting chronicle of a young mother who's lost her baby (a splendid Radha Mitchell), the film lacks sharp narrative but has emotional…

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Review of Green Dragon (2001)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 26 Dec 2006

Revisiting the painful aftermath of Vietnam from the perspective of American-bound refugees, Timothy's film is an honorable if not great companion…

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Review of Making Mr. Right (1987)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 26 Dec 2006

The film's fake feminist message is at its most cyncial: Real men are repulsive but androids (created by women) are sweet, sensitive, and open-minded…

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Review of Mary Poppins (1964)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 26 Dec 2006

The first Disney movie ever to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, the musical received 13 nods…

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Review of A Map of the World (1999)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for Variety (12,700) on 26 Dec 2006

Sigourney Weaver dominates with her powerful performance but the film, a feature debut from theater director Scott Elliott, is so poorly conceived…

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Review of Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 26 Dec 2006

A long, fascinating docu about the noted MIT professor and his lifelong work about propaganda in American society, or more specifically how…

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