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Review of Last Days (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 20 Jul 2005

A sincere effort to sound an echo into Kurt Cobain's cave....Van Sant turns photographic art into screen poetry…

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Review of Happy Endings (2005)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 12 Jul 2005

Secrets and lies laid bare by a strong cast make Roos' happy endings cathartic and reassuring…

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Review of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 12 Jul 2005

Never stops doling out demented treats....Dahl's morality play of bad parenting and bad-egg kids is evergreen....a genuinely amazing movie…

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Review of Wedding Crashers (2005)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 12 Jul 2005

Seen with forgiving eyes, Wedding Crashers is trashy, raunchy fun…

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Review of Happy Endings (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 12 Jul 2005

Secrets and lies laid bare by a strong cast make Roos' happy endings cathartic and reassuring…

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Review of The Two of Us (1967)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 07 Jul 2005

A story that hasn't gone out of style....Perhaps Berri spoke for himself through the old man's self-summation: 'I don't have a church bell…

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Review of Fantastic Four (2005)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 06 Jul 2005

So much...is bungled with inept storytelling and watered-down dialogue, and Story is so powerless to right the course, that Fantastic Four…

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Review of Dark Water (1980)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 06 Jul 2005

Though Dark Water doesn't run deep....Salles keeps his head above [it]...with superior acting, mise en scene, story, script, and photography…

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Review of Dark Water (2002)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 06 Jul 2005

Though Dark Water doesn't run deep....Salles keeps his head above [it]...with superior acting, mise en scene, story, script, and photography…

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Review of Dark Water (2007)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 06 Jul 2005

Though Dark Water doesn't run deep....Salles keeps his head above [it]...with superior acting, mise en scene, story, script, and photography…

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Review of Dark Water (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 06 Jul 2005

Though Dark Water doesn't run deep....Salles keeps his head above [it]...with superior acting, mise en scene, story, script, and photography…

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Review of The Beautiful Country (2004)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 06 Jul 2005

If Moland is a bit more interested in romantic melodrama than anthropology, the plight of the refugee still makes the intended emotional impact…

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Review of Murderball (2005)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 06 Jul 2005

Never less than intriguing, and often adrenalized....[depicts] men who live harder than most able-bodied individuals…

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Review of Dark Water (2005)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 06 Jul 2005

Though Dark Water doesn't run deep....Salles keeps his head above [it]...with superior acting, mise en scene, story, script, and photography…

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Review of North by Northwest (1959)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 04 Jul 2005

Thrilling, funny, and romantic; it elevates popcorn adventure to art...defines the ideal use of star power....[and] marries deadly intrigue…

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Review of Rebound (2005)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 28 Jun 2005

Coming soon to a theatre near you: Water Wings, with Adam Sandler coaching a swim team, and With a Paddle, starring Eddie Murphy as a ping-pong coach…

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Review of War of the Worlds (2005)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 27 Jun 2005

Has all the mechanized ingenuity of one of those dazzling Tripods, but the bigger they are....it's the gutless ending that renders War of the…

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Review of March of the Penguins (2005)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 22 Jun 2005

This G-rated charmer will make a guiltless and educational outing for parents of grade-schoolers...even if it does tenaciously anthropomorphize…

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Review of Bewitched (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 22 Jun 2005

Nicole Kidman tells the ubiquitous Will Farrell, I think the fact that you're a hopeless mess is very refreshing, but critics are not so charitable…

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Review of Bewitched (1981)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 22 Jun 2005

Nicole Kidman tells the ubiquitous Will Farrell, I think the fact that you're a hopeless mess is very refreshing, but critics are not so charitable…

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