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Review of Reservation Road (2007)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 18 Oct 2007

The film's biggest emotional wallop comes in the first few minutes, always a bad sign…

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Review of Rendition (2007)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 18 Oct 2007

Streep's skill is, as always, breathtaking…

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Review of Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 11 Oct 2007

It dances through history, making us feel as though such spectacles as the defeat of the Spanish Armada took place in the course of an afternoon,…

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Review of The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 04 Oct 2007

What's offensive is the way Anderson has used an entire country and its people as set dressing. Poverty and reality don't enter into the picture…

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Review of Lust, Caution (2007)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 04 Oct 2007

Oscar-winning director Ang Lee's new film, Lust, Caution, is such a challenging, defiant film that you leave it feeling slapped around, but…

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Review of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 04 Oct 2007

Assassination offers enough in the way of performance (Sam Rockwell and Paul Schneider are particularly good in supporting roles) and mood…

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Review of Into the Wild (2007)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 27 Sep 2007

Where Penn shines most is in his level of commitment. To show us where McCandless really was, he shot in at least 30 locations all over the country…

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Review of Good Luck Chuck (2007)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 20 Sep 2007

I could live with Good Luck Chuck's determination to humiliate a cutie pie such as Alba and its ongoing cruelty toward obese women…

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Review of Eastern Promises (2007)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 13 Sep 2007

Eastern Promises isn't particularly long, but it feels full -- full of tension and excitement and beautifully staged scenes…

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Review of The Brave One (2007)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 13 Sep 2007

Foster is so good, and the plight of an ordinary person destroyed by violence so compelling, that the movie is likely to be a hit…

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Review of Resurrecting the Champ (2007)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 23 Aug 2007

Jackson adopts a high, breathy voice to play the Champ and it gives him that vulnerability he needs to get away from his own bigger than life…

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Review of 2 Days in Paris (2007)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 23 Aug 2007

As [Woody] Allen made New York seem like a real, lived-in place, Delpy gives us that same easy proximity to Paris…

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Review of The Nanny Diaries (2007)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 23 Aug 2007

A horror film awkwardly disguised in the nondescript gray-green suit of a chick flick…

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Review of Right at Your Door (2006)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 23 Aug 2007

[Director] Gorak succeeds in raising larger issues about societal paranoia, and the dangers of being too obedient and trusting of the powers that be…

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Review of These Foolish Things (2006)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 15 Aug 2007

Tiresome. Even those who relish a good backstage drama may have trouble caring…

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Review of Superbad (2007)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 15 Aug 2007

All this foul talk is packaging for a central, completely sweet Apatowian premise: Friendship is precious…

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Review of Rush Hour 3 (2007)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 09 Aug 2007

If Chan has toned down the stunts, Tucker has pumped up the volume on his comic duties to the point where it seems his high-pitched whine could…

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Review of Stardust (2007)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 09 Aug 2007

Very good fun, and it taps right into same fanciful family movie market as The Princess Bride did 20 years ago…

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Review of Stardust (2010)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 09 Aug 2007

Very good fun, and it taps right into same fanciful family movie market as The Princess Bride did 20 years ago…

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Review of This Is England (2007)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 09 Aug 2007

Strong performances and powerful sense of time and place are almost enough to make a convincing argument for spending 98 minutes squirming with dread…

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