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Review of Déjà Vu (2006)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 22 Nov 2006

If you can surrender to the film's crazy convictions, it's a popcorn-munching wild ride worth taking…

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Review of The Fountain (1988)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 22 Nov 2006

Hugely ambitious and visually commanding...the kind of artful, textured, defiantly non-mainstream gamble more filmmakers should be taking…

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Review of The Fountain (2006)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 22 Nov 2006

Hugely ambitious and visually commanding...the kind of artful, textured, defiantly non-mainstream gamble more filmmakers should be taking…

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Review of The History Boys (2006)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 21 Nov 2006

The greatest adventure and saddest irony--taught alike by teachers to students and students to teachers--is that the big picture of history…

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Review of Casino Royale (2006)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 17 Nov 2006

Everyone's favorite British agent is still good for a punch, a shag, and a quip...Casino Royale gives the reborn franchise a second chance to grow up…

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Review of Casino Royale (1967)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 17 Nov 2006

Everyone's favorite British agent is still good for a punch, a shag, and a quip...Casino Royale gives the reborn franchise a second chance to grow up…

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Review of Casino Royale (1954)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 17 Nov 2006

Everyone's favorite British agent is still good for a punch, a shag, and a quip...Casino Royale gives the reborn franchise a second chance to grow up…

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Review of To Return (1982)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 03 Nov 2006

Though its humble pleasures give cause to pause and reflect on the Spanish filmmaker's occasionally overpraised output, Volver is a diverting…

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Review of Volver (2009)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 03 Nov 2006

Though its humble pleasures give cause to pause and reflect on the Spanish filmmaker's occasionally overpraised output, Volver is a diverting…

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Review of Volver (2006)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 03 Nov 2006

Though its humble pleasures give cause to pause and reflect on the Spanish filmmaker's occasionally overpraised output, Volver is a diverting…

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Review of Flushed Away (2006)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 02 Nov 2006

More concerned with character, well-timed sight and sound gags, and witty banter than it is with smooth plotting....[but] well-worth the plunge…

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Review of Little Children (2006)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 26 Oct 2006

That the narration and Field's God's-eye camera draw attention to the film's form doesn't detract from its function: to give us that 'second…

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Review of Driving Lessons (2006)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 19 Oct 2006

It's Grint who grounds in reality, as best he can, Brock's directing debut...this conventional Britcom lightly hums along for a good stretch…

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Review of Running with Scissors (2006)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 19 Oct 2006

With its compulsive theatricality, Running With Scissors enacts what may be the most unpleasant brand of insanity in a film full of them…

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Review of Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 19 Oct 2006

Broyles and Haggis redundantly hammer home the same point in scene after scene...while fail[ing] in 132 minutes fully to breathe life into…

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Review of The Prestige (2006)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 19 Oct 2006

Nolan's supreme confidence, narrative skill, and taste for complexity make for unusually rich popular entertainment…

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Review of Stormbreaker (2006)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 13 Oct 2006

[Rider's] squirrelly film debut amps up Horowitz's wry humor, putting silliness in unintentional competition with the film's action and dramatic…

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Review of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 12 Oct 2006

A sincere examination of the moment, on the cusp of adulthood, when children must decide whether to get out of the only life they've known…

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Review of The Grudge 2 (2006)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 12 Oct 2006

If Shimizu's aging idea of rage-made wraiths were true, caterwauling critics would be crawling all over the multiplex right about now…

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Review of The Queen (2006)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 11 Oct 2006

Delicately balances the inherent drama of the tragic circumstances with the comedy of manners that is the Royal Family's dysfunction, and Britain's…

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