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Review of Revolutionary Road (2008)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 23 Dec 2008

Certainly the best work Mendes has ever produced for the screen, Revolutionary Road works as a showcase for performances: DiCaprio and Winslet…

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Review of Gran Torino (2008)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 18 Dec 2008

Gran Torino is most fun when it's working on the level of performance art, and much of the time, it resembles an art school take on an insult…

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Review of The Reader (2008)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 12 Dec 2008

This is a film which asks us to contemplate the deeply complicated relationship between rational thought and instinctual feeling via a perverse…

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Review of Milk (2008)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 26 Nov 2008

Milk is a film about the politics of sex, in which the political process itself not only takes precedence over but seems to stand in for the…

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Review of Milk (2008)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 26 Nov 2008

Milk is a film about the politics of sex, in which the political process itself not only takes precedence over but seems to stand in for the…

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Review of Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 31 Oct 2008

He documents an undeniably affecting personal story, and patches it together like a short attention span scrapbook with his fingerprints intact,…

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Review of Synecdoche, New York (2008)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 22 Oct 2008

Synecdoche is impeccably acted, inventively designed, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, and often devastatingly sad…

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Review of W. (2008)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 15 Oct 2008

If history remembers W. at all, it'll be as a monument to the erosion of Oliver Stone's balls…

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Review of Changeling (2008)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 05 Oct 2008

We drink every time Angelina hysterically proclaims, He's not my son…

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Review of Let the Right One In (2008)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 24 Sep 2008

Let the Right One In is certainly well-made and miles more thoughtful than you might expect a teenage vampire film to be…

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Review of Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 18 Sep 2008

Believe the hype at least, to a certain extent. Zach and Miri Make a Porno is Kevin Smith's all-around high score for the current decade…

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Review of In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2007)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 03 Aug 2008

A visually stunning love letter to the much-maligned city...It's when the actors open their mouths that I start to have a problem…

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Review of I'm Through with White Girls (2007)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 08 Jul 2008

A broad comedy that occasionally suffers for its leads' lack of comic chemistry...it takes the film a while to work through the stereotypes…

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Review of Iron Man (1931)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 18 Jun 2008

More convincing as sex fantasy than political allegory, Iron Man suggests the answer to combating Them is for Us to reestablish the link between…

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Review of Iron Man (1951)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 18 Jun 2008

More convincing as sex fantasy than political allegory, Iron Man suggests the answer to combating Them is for Us to reestablish the link between…

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Review of Iron Man (2008)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 18 Jun 2008

More convincing as sex fantasy than political allegory, Iron Man suggests the answer to combating Them is for Us to reestablish the link between…

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Review of Sex and Breakfast (2007)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 19 May 2008

The only thing shameful about Sex and Breakfast is its unwillingness to get really shameful…

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Review of The Wackness (2008)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 24 Apr 2008

With its full-on, fully uncritical glorification of adolescent male self-indulgence and permanent immaturity, The Wackness is a kind of cinematic…

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Review of Control (2013)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 04 Feb 2008

Smashes the music biopic mold by portraying the star at its center not as a mythological creature, but as a real-life, messed-up kid in over his head…

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Review of Control (2007)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 04 Feb 2008

Smashes the music biopic mold by portraying the star at its center not as a mythological creature, but as a real-life, messed-up kid in over his head…

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