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Review of Man on Wire (2008)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 24 Dec 2008

A feat like the one Philippe Petit pulled off deserves to be documented…

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Review of The Reader (2008)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 19 Dec 2008

It tries for depth while holding your hand and glossing its surface; in the end, you get what you'd expect, which is a decent Holocaust-related…

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Review of Changeling (2008)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 19 Dec 2008

Frankly, if Clint Eastwood added some arias, this might've made a pretty good opera…

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Review of The Wrestler (1984)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 17 Dec 2008

The absolute key to the movie's success is that it's mainly one actor playing one man in a way that we can join him inside his skin, and that's…

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Review of The Wrestler (1971)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 17 Dec 2008

The absolute key to the movie's success is that it's mainly one actor playing one man in a way that we can join him inside his skin, and that's…

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Review of The Wrestler (2008)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 17 Dec 2008

The absolute key to the movie's success is that it's mainly one actor playing one man in a way that we can join him inside his skin, and that's…

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Review of Che: Part One (2008)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 12 Dec 2008

Che Guevara, it seems, shall ever be a symbol, and Che doesn't even seem interested in cracking that, thus leaving us no more enlightened than…

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Review of Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 11 Dec 2008

An unapologetic modern fairy tale ... The construct is so appealing, it's almost instantly classic…

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Review of Frost/Nixon (2008)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 05 Dec 2008

Langella gives Nixon a chance at audience sympathy -- for everything you know and possibly hate about the man, you can see, through the performance,…

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Review of Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 21 Nov 2008

For a film that's been lauded for its daring display of full-frontal male nudity, I got the nagging feeling that it actually played things…

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Review of Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 21 Nov 2008

Its elements are actually quite typical of a syndicated cartoon series, aimed mostly at the young'uns and contributing pretty much nothing…

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Review of Blade II (2002)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 21 Nov 2008

The joy in Blade II simply comes from watching Snipes as Blade doing his thing -- destroying vampires and whipping out martial arts on whomever…

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Review of Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 14 Nov 2008

A comprehensive movie, an everything-you-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask film, engaging, paced well, informative, and professionally polished…

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Review of Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 14 Nov 2008

While Hou's cinematic techniques are as sound as ever, this time it feels as if they're being used to peer into nothing of particular, specific…

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Review of Speed Racer (2008)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 14 Nov 2008

Cut from car to driver to announcer to audience and over and over again, ad nauseam. Such pretty racing scenes, so little to actually see…

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Review of Leatherheads (2008)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 14 Oct 2008

Mostly simply tries for fun, and for a good part of it, it delivers…

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Review of Snow Angels (2007)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 07 Oct 2008

Green is a director who takes his time with characters, allowing their different sides to self-illustrate in naturalistic settings as he simultaneously…

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Review of Black (2005)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 07 Oct 2008

It's the details that make the whole thing work, from the performances…

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Review of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 30 Sep 2008

Better viewed as an illustration of the extreme dynamics of a friendship of personality contrasts than as a movie about illegal abortion or…

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Review of Burn After Reading (2008)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 10 Sep 2008

Brothers Joel and Ethan Coen could direct a movie like Burn After Reading in their sleep, and I don't mean that as a slight…

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