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Review of U-571 (2000)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 19 Aug 2008

[Both] a rousing action thriller...[and] near-parody of the rah-rah American military adventures that filled screens in the '40s and '50s. [Blu-Ray]…

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Review of Nixon (1995)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 19 Aug 2008

A convincing blend of Shakespearean tragedy and Citizen Kane, Nixon paints the thirty-seventh President of the United States as a uniquely…

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Review of Camp Rock (2008)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 17 Aug 2008

[A] derisive discussion of 'stupid cookie-cutter pop star stuff' is more than a little ironic in this Radio Disney petri dish, but at least…

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Review of Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 14 Aug 2008

Perhaps the greatest compliment to be paid to Vicky Cristina Barcelona is that it serves as a spot-on emblem of Allen's own life philosophy…

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Review of A Man Named Pearl (2006)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 14 Aug 2008

One of those hidden treasures of the art house that it's your duty to seek out…

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Review of CJ7 (2008)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 12 Aug 2008

He knows he's the hundredth director to rip off E.T.: he's just going to do it better, and with jokes fit for a vintage Warner Brothers cartoon…

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Review of Maximum Risk (1996)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 12 Aug 2008

The energetic action isn't quite enough to overcome an undernourished story. [Blu-Ray]…

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Review of Tropic Thunder (2008)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 11 Aug 2008

Lazarus' cliched idea of a black man is funny in itself...but Downey's immersive take on the immersive actor is pure genius…

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Review of Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 10 Aug 2008

Explores the rapture and torture of desire, and the tension between harsh reality and escapist fantasy. [DVD]…

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Review of Beowulf (2007)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 10 Aug 2008

A worthy cinematic adaptation, with interesting and provocative mythic ideas of its own, and suprisingly lyrical images to match. [Blu-Ray]…

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Review of Beowulf (1999)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 10 Aug 2008

A worthy cinematic adaptation, with interesting and provocative mythic ideas of its own, and suprisingly lyrical images to match. [Blu-Ray]…

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Review of Beowulf (1976)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 10 Aug 2008

A worthy cinematic adaptation, with interesting and provocative mythic ideas of its own, and suprisingly lyrical images to match. [Blu-Ray]…

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Review of Top Gun (1986)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 10 Aug 2008

A movie for adolescents, and adults who willfully decide not to know better for a couple of hours. [Blu-Ray]…

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Review of Top Gun (1955)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 10 Aug 2008

A movie for adolescents, and adults who willfully decide not to know better for a couple of hours. [Blu-Ray]…

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Review of Starship Troopers (1997)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 05 Aug 2008

Insanely subversive...functions as a visually dazzling science-fiction action picture, a philosophical challenge, and a hilarious, incisive…

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Review of The Hunt for Red October (1990)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 05 Aug 2008

As for the film's suspense credentials, you know it's time to get tense when James Earl Jones intones, 'Mother of God.' [Blu-Ray]…

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Review of Patriot Games (1992)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 05 Aug 2008

Ford gives one of his most commanding performances outside of a Lucas production, establishing an action formula Ford would repeat...[Blu-Ray]…

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Review of Pineapple Express (2008)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 04 Aug 2008

Despite its rusty mechanics and hodgepodge of tones, Pineapple Express convincingly imitates the mode of Midnight Run: on-the-run odd-couple…

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Review of Dark City (1998)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 04 Aug 2008

Proyas assembles his inspirations into a unique amalgam with the power of myth to tap the fears and desires of our collective unconscious. [Blu-Ray]…

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Review of Dark City (1950)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 04 Aug 2008

Proyas assembles his inspirations into a unique amalgam with the power of myth to tap the fears and desires of our collective unconscious. [Blu-Ray]…

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