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Review of Fever Pitch (2005)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

Coincidentally, it's the second great romantic comedy to end with Drew Barrymore on a ball diamond and the only work of fiction to feature…

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Review of An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

Those attacking Al Gore as a misinformed prophet or political crybaby likely never watched the film…

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Review of Finding Forrester (2000)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

Lost in Forrester's dismissal is appreciation for its relatively piss-and-vinegar approach to the act of creating fiction…

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Review of The Good Shepherd (2006)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

As a punishingly ambiguous and astonishingly thorough tragedy, The Good Shepherd shows that emotions as human as any errors can undermine intelligence…

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Review of Ghost World (2001)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

Like Rushmore with a female slant, Ghost World tackles the true torches we often keep to ourselves as well as the struggle of feeling like…

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Review of Fast Food Nation (2006)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

It's about empty calories and empty life - ridiculous insistences that all kids see playing time regardless of on-field performance, the absurdity…

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Review of In the Loop (2009)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

Not since Three Kings has war satire felt as gloriously agitated and acerbic…

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Review of Gladiator (2000)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

Russell Crowe is as believable a Spaniard here as Charlton Heston was a Mexican in Touch of Evil…

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Review of Fever Pitch (1985)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

Coincidentally, it's the second great romantic comedy to end with Drew Barrymore on a ball diamond and the only work of fiction to feature…

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Review of The Host (2006)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

A livid bureaucratic satire, berserk creature feature and surprisingly somber drama, The Host is a convulsive, wild ride - simultaneously eliciting…

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Review of Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

Untethered to any post-TV era is a conclusion that America gets too comfortable with the mental inactivity it enables. Edward R…

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Review of Sexy Beast (2001)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

It's not just the ironic kick of watching the guy who played Gandhi get his rocks off on sociopathic violence…

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Review of Hotel Rwanda (2004)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

Like Schindler's List, Hotel Rwanda shows how the madness of genocide and war converted one man's context of wealth and success from capitalism…

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Review of Frequency (2000)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

Gregory Hoblit's best film generates Spielbergian fascination with temporal drama of twisting timelines, infused with personal conflict and…

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Review of The Girlfriend Experience (2009)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

Like a sneaky P.I. seeking weakness, Soderbergh places his camera behind everyday barriers…

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Review of In America (2003)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

In America serves as a peaceful reminder of the simplicity and clarity with which kids can stare down death and help adults come to a place…

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Review of The Hurt Locker (2008)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

The decade's best fictional film about its real war, it's a unique perspective on the workplace high of delivering containment from chaos…

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Review of Into the Wild (2007)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 22 Sep 2010

Even in its harrowing final moments, it reaches a spiritually transcendent pinnacle - the idea of ending one long, strange trip and plummeting…

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Review of The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 22 Sep 2010

Seth Gordon's unexpectedly engrossing documentary about the quest for a Donkey Kong record - a seeming paradise only for the pale and pasty…

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Review of Jackass Number Two (2006)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 22 Sep 2010

Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera and company prod themselves into a hilariously fascinating exploration, and exploitation, of their own psychological…

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State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) (137)
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