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Review of Tell No One (2006)

By Gabriel Shanks (177) for Modern Fabulousity (46) on 17 Nov 2008

Easily one of the best films of the year…

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Review of I've Loved You So Long (2008)

By Gabriel Shanks (177) for Modern Fabulousity (46) on 17 Nov 2008

Watching this sublime actress, utilizing a minimum of text and a slow-burn intensity, is one of the more exhilarating experiences to be had…

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Review of Quantum of Solace (2008)

By Gabriel Shanks (177) for Modern Fabulousity (46) on 17 Nov 2008

Owes more of a karmic debt, in stylistic terms, to Paul Greengrass' Bourne Supremacy than to the amused elegance of Sean Connery…

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Review of The Kite Runner (2007)

By Gabriel Shanks (177) for Modern Fabulousity (46) on 02 Dec 2007

Fights a losing battle to reconcile authenticity with performances that vary widely in quality…

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Review of Juno (2007)

By Gabriel Shanks (177) for Modern Fabulousity (46) on 02 Dec 2007

A quirky comic indie with a too-too-clever screenplay, dialogue that seems tailored to the club-kid generation, and a sentimental streak a mile wide…

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

By Gabriel Shanks (177) for Modern Fabulousity (46) on 02 Dec 2007

The real kudos should go to screenwriter Kelly Masterson, who provocatively mixed a crime drama premise into a film exploring the legacy of…

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Review of No Country for Old Men (2007)

By Gabriel Shanks (177) for Modern Fabulousity (46) on 24 Oct 2007

Like The Crying Game, Pulp Fiction and other films that shift paradigms in mid-stream, there's more happening than meets the eye....Stark and…

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Review of Michael Clayton (2007)

By Gabriel Shanks (177) for Modern Fabulousity (46) on 15 Oct 2007

In some scenes, Clayton is the kick in the pants the whodunit genre desperately needs…

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Review of Into the Wild (2007)

By Gabriel Shanks (177) for Modern Fabulousity (46) on 06 Oct 2007

Contrary to the lessons we learned in Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man, large bears will not always eat irritating hippie man-children. Damn shame…

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Review of Across the Universe (2007)

By Gabriel Shanks (177) for Modern Fabulousity (46) on 15 Sep 2007

The thin narrative wobbles like an alcoholic after last call…

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Review of Sunshine (1973)

By Gabriel Shanks (177) for Mixed Reviews (171) on 07 Jul 2007

Like the films it grandly and unabashedly pays homage to, Sunshine is serious science fiction for those who prefer to think of space's real…

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Review of Sunshine (1999)

By Gabriel Shanks (177) for Mixed Reviews (171) on 07 Jul 2007

Like the films it grandly and unabashedly pays homage to, Sunshine is serious science fiction for those who prefer to think of space's real…

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Review of Sunshine (2007)

By Gabriel Shanks (177) for Mixed Reviews (171) on 07 Jul 2007

Like the films it grandly and unabashedly pays homage to, Sunshine is serious science fiction for those who prefer to think of space's real…

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Review of Sunshine (2013)

By Gabriel Shanks (177) for Mixed Reviews (171) on 07 Jul 2007

Like the films it grandly and unabashedly pays homage to, Sunshine is serious science fiction for those who prefer to think of space's real…

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Review of Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

By Gabriel Shanks (177) for Modern Fabulousity (46) on 25 Jun 2007

In this fourth film, John McClane becomes a retrofitted icon; unadorned and simple, brutally back-to-basic, he's an action hero for an America…

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Review of Once (2009)

By Gabriel Shanks (177) for Modern Fabulousity (46) on 20 Jun 2007

Astonishing...it cleaves through the conventions of the musical form, leaving the raw emotion but junking the showy glitz…

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Review of Once (2007)

By Gabriel Shanks (177) for Modern Fabulousity (46) on 20 Jun 2007

Astonishing...it cleaves through the conventions of the musical form, leaving the raw emotion but junking the showy glitz…

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Review of Three Kings (2011)

By Gabriel Shanks (177) for Mixed Reviews (171) on 10 May 2007

With characters you can root for and a story that is both engaging and honest, Three Kings goes for the gold and comes out a winner…

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Review of Three Kings (1999)

By Gabriel Shanks (177) for Mixed Reviews (171) on 10 May 2007

With characters you can root for and a story that is both engaging and honest, Three Kings goes for the gold and comes out a winner…

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Review of Grindhouse (2007)

By Gabriel Shanks (177) for Mixed Reviews (171) on 07 Apr 2007

As a glimpse into the minds of two iconoclastic directors -- both of whom came of age watching the films they now pay homage to -- this retro-electric…

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