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Review of Up (1984)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 06 Jan 2010

Once the balloons make their grand, eye-popping entrance in a kaleidoscope of color and texture, the film becomes chaotic and silly, and coasts…

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Review of Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 06 Jan 2010

The film incorporates all the quiet, improvisational style, dry humor delivery as found in other Anderson pictures, but combined with the proletarian…

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Review of (500) Days of Summer (2009)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 06 Jan 2010

We have been trained by Hollywood to react a certain way to a certain kind of movie and 500 Days of Summer seeks to un-train us through shock therapy…

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Review of Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 06 Jan 2010

The conversations and interactions [Jonze] orchestrates, whether real, imaginary, spoken with an inner voice, or cried aloud, are delivered…

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Review of The Informant! (2009)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 06 Jan 2010

Whitacre marks a very interesting reflection point in Matt Damon's career as it eerily evokes a controversial character he portrayed ten years…

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Review of Up (2009)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 06 Jan 2010

Once the balloons make their grand, eye-popping entrance in a kaleidoscope of color and texture, the film becomes chaotic and silly, and coasts…

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Review of Invictus (2009)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 06 Jan 2010

Invictus succeeds in making one sympathize with and root for Mandela; it does not succeed as a thrilling film-going experience, as it well could have…

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Review of Where the Wild Things Are (1975)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 06 Jan 2010

The conversations and interactions [Jonze] orchestrates, whether real, imaginary, spoken with an inner voice, or cried aloud, are delivered…

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Review of Coraline (2009)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 06 Jan 2010

While Selick's production is not by any stretch graphic or gory, the use of odd and irregular shapes, proportions, and movement creates a dark…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 06 Jan 2010

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is an icily grave and somber affair, with few moments of relief amid the mounting turmoil and a finale…

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Review of District 9 (2009)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 06 Jan 2010

While Blomkamp's disturbing thriller does have a semi-revelatory ending, the real secret is that District 9, for all its pomp and circumstance,…

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Review of Up! (1976)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 06 Jan 2010

Once the balloons make their grand, eye-popping entrance in a kaleidoscope of color and texture, the film becomes chaotic and silly, and coasts…

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Review of Waltz with Bashir (2008)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 02 Dec 2009

Waltz With Bashir does what many films have done before; that is convinces us that war is hell, but it does so in way that is frightening and…

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Review of Schindler's List (1993)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 02 Dec 2009

Schindler's List, because it is so finely crafted and authentic, truly allows one to experience the devastating, calculated breakdown of a…

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Review of The Frisco Kid (1979)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 01 Dec 2009

The Frisco Kid is, all pratfalls and tuchus jokes aside, the quintessential Torah movie…

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Review of A Stranger Among Us (1992)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 22 Nov 2009

What could easily have been another irritatingly earnest, clueless depiction of orthodox Jewish stereotypes, unfolds as an involving, challenging,…

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Review of Homicide: The Movie (2000)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 12 Nov 2009

Homicide, David Mamet's ponderous film about a Jewish cop losing his way, loses its way whenever it wanders from the scene of the crime…

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Review of Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 29 Oct 2009

The general measure of audience enjoyment for a film based on Simon has everything to do with one's tolerance for the playwright…

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Review of Yentl (1983)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 27 Oct 2009

While the movie is on target in terms of noble intent, so much about Yentl is self defeating, and the legendary ego of Streisand can safely…

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Review of A Serious Man (2009)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 26 Sep 2009

A Serious Man sheds light on a series of uniquely Jewish challenges, from agunot and uniformly bad noses, to anti-Semitism and the eternal…

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