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Review of Milk (1998)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 24 Dec 2008

Sean Penn must create something completely foreign to his understanding and sell it as if he felt Harvey Milk's struggle with every fiber of…

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Review of The Wrestler (2008)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 24 Dec 2008

Rourke is convincing and honest, marvelous and touching, but he's not required to channel emotions that linger far and away from the man he…

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Review of Milk (2008)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 24 Dec 2008

Sean Penn must create something completely foreign to his understanding and sell it as if he felt Harvey Milk's struggle with every fiber of…

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Review of Milk (1999)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 24 Dec 2008

Sean Penn must create something completely foreign to his understanding and sell it as if he felt Harvey Milk's struggle with every fiber of…

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Review of The Wrestler (1984)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 24 Dec 2008

Rourke is convincing and honest, marvelous and touching, but he's not required to channel emotions that linger far and away from the man he…

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Review of Adam Resurrected (2008)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 22 Dec 2008

For all the nightmarish scenes conceived as a creepy cross between Burroughs and Weisel, we don't receive the cathartic satisfaction typically…

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Review of The Reader (2008)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 22 Dec 2008

[The Reader] is positively goyish in its glassy eyed treatment of Jew killing, not that it aims to be anything more than an exercise in moral…

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Review of JCVD (2008)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 07 Dec 2008

The only story that matters (in the larger sense) is that JCVD is a phenomenal achievement, and not despite the work of Van Damme, but thoroughly…

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Review of Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 07 Dec 2008

It is as if we are constantly reminded that we do not drink from the fountain of real wisdom, but rather, with Slumdog Millionaire, it is just…

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Review of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 02 Oct 2008

The film and those like it are merely the reflection of ageing creative people in hopeless search for an elixir…

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Review of Tropic Thunder (2008)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 13 Aug 2008

While the blogs and talking heads seem to be wrong-headedly preoccupied with issues of semantics and race, what I found to be the most authentically…

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Review of The Dark Knight (2008)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 17 Jul 2008

[Though] The Dark Knight is a film one can respect, it is very difficult to enjoy…

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Review of Savage Grace (2007)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 08 May 2008

Kalin is a very brave and honest filmmaker (and plenty astute), but his subject matter argues that some stories need not be told…

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Review of War, Inc. (2008)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 08 May 2008

The film clearly intends to skewer our country and its corrupt, foolhardy, hypocritical, self serving policies in Iraq, and maybe many of the…

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Review of The Band's Visit (2007)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 08 Feb 2008

The film leaves us with the notion that music; sweet simple notes arranged in brilliant order, is one language where even Jews and Arabs can…

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Review of Orthodox Stance (2008)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 18 Jan 2008

Salita needs to train and prepare like any other fighter looking to break an opponent's nose in the first round, but all the while he spars…

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Review of The Golden Compass (2007)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 31 Dec 2007

All the pieces combined feel like nothing more than a barrage of exquisitely crafted names…

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Review of No Country for Old Men (2007)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 31 Dec 2007

No Country is not a film for weak, unsteady hearts…

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Review of Gone Baby Gone (2007)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 31 Dec 2007

The action and drama related to the taking of the girl and the unraveling of the mystery are inarguably engrossing, but sometimes twists and…

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Review of Eastern Promises (2007)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 06 Dec 2007

There seems to be no point to it all other than to craft an unsettling motion picture with some grisly close ups of throats being slit…

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