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Review of The Polar Express (2004)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 10 Feb 2008

The screenplay, by Zemeckis and William Broyles Jr., plumps Van Allsburg's simple fable about the purity of childhood faith in what can't be…

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Review of In Bruges (2008)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 06 Feb 2008

Neither star is sloppy, but both are loose and mellow -- a couple of pros who know they're the whole show…

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Review of Baran (2001)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 29 Jan 2008

There are moments in Baran as wholesomely heart-tugging as any involving Charlie Chaplin and a blind girl, but the film is saved from aren't-kids-cute…

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

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 24 Jan 2008

Nothing good happens in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the riveting, horrifying chronicle of an illegal abortion performed in 1987 when Ceauescu's…

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Review of Primer (2004)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 18 Jan 2008

Consider Primer a successful lab experiment with, as they might say in techie chat rooms, significant indie-cred applications, IMHO. Oh, and :-)…

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Review of Selena (1997)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 18 Jan 2008

The best thing going for Selena is Selena herself, played with verve, heart, and a great deal of grace by the increasingly busy Jennifer Lopez…

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Review of Beaufort (2007)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 17 Jan 2008

Adapting his spare, intense, award-winning film from the novel by Israeli TV programmer Ron Leshem, Joseph Cedar has created a movie of tremendous…

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Review of The Hunted (2003)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 14 Jan 2008

The Hunted stalks the masculine psyche with sharp knives, but it tracks its audience too noisily to bag us…

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Review of Big Night (1996)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 11 Jan 2008

The real feast is in the mix of characters, each so finely and unschmaltzily delineated in a script so confident and controlled that even the…

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Review of Miracle (2004)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 27 Dec 2007

Miracle -- the title taken from TV announcer Al Michaels' famous game-clinching cheer, ''Do you believe in miracles? Yes…

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Review of The Walker (2007)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 05 Dec 2007

The brittle, very ''written'' catty quips meant to characterize Washington hypocrisy sound perfunctory; the story of an aging, self-hating…

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Review of Grace Is Gone (2007)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 05 Dec 2007

Grace Is Gone grabs on to a name, a war, and the metaphor-come-to-life of a theme park with rides going nowhere…

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Review of Atonement (2007)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 28 Nov 2007

In the end -- an ending of such power and narrative originality (in both book and movie) that those who know it ought never breathe a word…

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Review of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 28 Nov 2007

The most beautiful movie ever made about a man who could only move one eyelid -- almost dangerously beautiful…

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Review of Juno (2007)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 28 Nov 2007

A blithe charmer balanced somewhere between a life-should-be-so-neat fairy tale and a life's-a-real-bitch tragicomedy, leaves political debate…

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Review of Atonement (1971)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 28 Nov 2007

In the end -- an ending of such power and narrative originality (in both book and movie) that those who know it ought never breathe a word…

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Review of Savages (2006)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 21 Nov 2007

The Savages is terrific -- a movie of uncommon appreciation for the nature and nurture that go into making us who we are, a perfectly calibrated…

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Review of The Savages (2007)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 21 Nov 2007

The Savages is terrific -- a movie of uncommon appreciation for the nature and nurture that go into making us who we are, a perfectly calibrated…

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Review of Margot at the Wedding (2007)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 14 Nov 2007

Which brings us back to Kidman, who really IS sensational here…

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Review of Sicko (2007)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 08 Nov 2007

The Cuban escapade, designed to provoke, backfires when he loses focus by including Cuban firefighters in an homage to 9/11 first responders…

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