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Review of Illegal (2010)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 25 Mar 2011

A taut and powerful movie that might have easily been titled Nobody is Illegal given its courageous stance against the kind of xenophobia generated…

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Review of Honey (2010)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 11 Mar 2011

A luminous film about a six-year-old boy with a stuttering problem…

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Review of Even the Rain (2011)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 25 Feb 2011

With a screenplay by one of Ken Loach's long-time collaborators and a dedication to Howard Zinn, this intelligent and committed film is a rarity…

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Review of True Grit (2010)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 25 Dec 2010

Another edgy movie by the Coens filled with the usual comic mixture of sadism and misanthropy, this time expressed through its two lead male…

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Review of Rabbit Hole (2010)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 21 Dec 2010

A by-the-numbers adaptation of a stage play that smacks of a thousand writer's workshops and that is utterly devoid of genuine feeling…

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Review of Tiny Furniture (2010)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 16 Dec 2010

This movie was shot on a Canon SLR camera. Very impressive. Everything else about it is sheer garbage…

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Review of Cyrus (2010)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 16 Dec 2010

A totally cringe-inducing movie. Stay away from it unless you enjoy gawking at severely damaged personalities…

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Review of White Material (2010)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 10 Dec 2010

Despite its postcolonial reputation, this film does not allow a single African--especially the most important character--to have a single important…

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Review of And Everything Is Going Fine (2010)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 08 Dec 2010

In many ways, a memorial meeting for the late, lamented and supremely talented Spalding Gray…

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Review of Waste Land (2010)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 06 Dec 2010

A stunning reminder of the redemptive power of art…

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Review of Last Train Home (2009)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 28 Nov 2010

Despite being ruled by the Communist Party, the China depicted in this powerful documentary evokes Karl Marx: The bourgeoisie has torn away…

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Review of Carlos (2010)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 22 Nov 2010

Like The Baader-Meinhof Complex, this is a largely pointless exercise meant to deliver the same kind of cheap thrills as Bonnie and Clyde or…

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Review of Prince of Broadway (2010)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 17 Nov 2010

Brilliant neorealist, improvisatory film using non-professionals to tell a story about a street hustler and the baby he is forced to look after…

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Review of Restrepo (2010)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 15 Nov 2010

Despite disclaimers by the directors that this is not a political movie, Restrepo is one damned good reason to get the hell out of Afghanistan NOW…

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Review of Waiting for "Superman" (2010)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 02 Nov 2010

Although the movie has an extremely retrograde viewpoint, it is a must-see for those trying to understand the hype around charter schools…

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Review of Budrus (2010)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 28 Oct 2010

A superlative introduction to the realities of Palestinian suffering and resistance…

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Review of The Social Network (2010)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 13 Oct 2010

While it does not really live up to the hyperbolic reviews, this is still a fascinating look at the craft of computer programming and the ostensibly…

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Review of Waltz with Bashir (2008)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 05 Oct 2010

Despite the director's refusal to come to terms with Israel's role in the Sabra-Shatila massacre, this is a pacifist film that ranks with Platoon…

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Review of Inside Job (2010)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 23 Sep 2010

Quite simply, the definitive movie on the financial crisis and an implicit call for radical action against the two capitalist parties that…

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Review of Gasland (2010)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 14 Sep 2010

Essential viewing, especially New Yorkers whose drinking water is being threatened by the same kinds of corporate greed and government collusion…

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