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Review of Humpday (2009)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 13 Nov 2009

A mumblecore bore about two heterosexual men, one living a conventional married life and the other a bohemian bachelor, who decide to make…

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Review of The Girlfriend Experience (2009)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 03 Nov 2009

Despite the lack of fanfare, this is a much better offering from Soderbergh than The Informant, not to speak of its deeper critique of bourgeois…

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Review of Girlfriend Experience (2008)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 03 Nov 2009

Despite the lack of fanfare, this is a much better offering from Soderbergh than The Informant, not to speak of its deeper critique of bourgeois…

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Review of The Informant (2008)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 16 Oct 2009

A movie finding edgy comedy about a man suffering from bipolar disorder? What's next? A dark comedy about cancer of the pancreas…

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Review of A Serious Man (2009)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 16 Oct 2009

One might put up with the insufferable sense of superiority of the Coen brothers if this movie had some laughs…

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Review of The Informant! (2009)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 16 Oct 2009

A movie finding edgy comedy about a man suffering from bipolar disorder? What's next? A dark comedy about cancer of the pancreas…

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Review of Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution (2008)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 11 Oct 2009

This outstanding documentary calls for a food revolution for the very best reason…

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Review of Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 24 Sep 2009

Very much worth seeing, despite being more in the Frank Capra vein than Karl Marx…

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Review of American Casino (2009)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 01 Sep 2009

Outstanding documentary on how the powerful preyed upon the weak…

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Review of The Hurt Locker (2008)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 10 Aug 2009

Don't believe the hype. This is a cliche-ridden mess which treats Iraqis like zombies or creatures from outer space…

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Review of In the Loop (2009)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 10 Aug 2009

A complete mystery. How in the world did this lame British comedy bamboozle so many critics…

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Review of The Yes Men Fix the World (2009)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 27 Jul 2009

Forget about Bruno or Borat. This is the real deal when it comes to exposing the phoniness of those in positions of power…

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Review of Brüno (2009)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 25 Jul 2009

An expose of the sham values of celebrity worship and tinseltown ambition largely unaware that the producer/director/writer and lead actor…

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Review of Valkyrie (2008)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 12 Jul 2009

Earnest and understated movie about the General's plot against Hitler…

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Review of Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 08 Jul 2009

Essential viewing for those with an interest in Jewish popular culture and the American left. And just about everybody else as well…

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Review of Food, Inc. (2008)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 27 May 2009

The definitive study of factory farming in the U.S. today and an heir to the traditions of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Highly recommended…

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Review of Kabei: Our Mother (2008)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 20 May 2009

Deeply powerful study of a family trying to survive repression and poverty in wartime Japan with much in common--unexpectedly--with the director's…

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Review of Bright Leaves (2004)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 03 May 2009

Classic McElwee blending together the personal and the political in his native North Carolina, to which he something of the same ambivalent…

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Review of Oblivion (2008)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 13 Apr 2009

Unstinting but lyrical documentary on the costs of poverty in Peru, especially on the children who scramble for coins on the streets of Lima…

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Review of Rescue Dawn (2007)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 08 Apr 2009

Not the typical Chuck Norris movie, but just as rancid in its own edgy pretentious manner…

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