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Review of Palindromes (2005)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 05 May 2005

Palindromes, for all its experimental verve-played out in a deliberate affectless style that becomes its own strange affect-cancels itself out…

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Review of Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

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

A confused and confusing compromise at best and a dull obfuscation of history at worst…

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Review of House of Wax (2005)

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

A roughhouse between the Hayes's dingbatty script...and director Sera's winking and surprisingly skillful treatment of it...ultimately disappointing…

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Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 26 Apr 2005

Audiences can be grateful for the unique absurdist dimensions and freewheeling irreverence of Adams, which place the film in its own category…

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Review of Kings Ransom (2009)

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

Populated solely with hateful characters...strictly for connoisseurs of crass…

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Review of King's Ransom (2005)

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

Populated solely with hateful characters...strictly for connoisseurs of crass…

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Review of A Lot Like Love (2005)

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

Earns points for resisting the usual corny romantic comedy gimmicks (I'm looking at you, The Wedding Date!) for most of its running time…

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Review of Layer Cake (2004)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 09 Apr 2005

Layer Cake always pulls itself up by its bootsraps whenever its energy threatens to flag…

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Review of November (2007)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 09 Apr 2005

Telegraphs its unsatisfying payoff for miles, has no fun getting there, but at least boasts a running time of 73 minutes, padded by a hilariously…

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Review of Roly Poly (1968)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 09 Apr 2005

Layer Cake always pulls itself up by its bootsraps whenever its energy threatens to flag…

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Review of November (2004)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 09 Apr 2005

Telegraphs its unsatisfying payoff for miles, has no fun getting there, but at least boasts a running time of 73 minutes, padded by a hilariously…

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Review of November (2004)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 09 Apr 2005

Telegraphs its unsatisfying payoff for miles, has no fun getting there, but at least boasts a running time of 73 minutes, padded by a hilariously…

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Review of House of D (2004)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 09 Apr 2005

Duchovny shows signs of wit and wisdom [but this] feels much more written than lived...for every funny or gut-wrenching moment, three head-scratching…

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Review of Fever Pitch (1985)

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

Fever Pitch may be something short of miraculous, but perhaps it isn't how you play the game that matters after all, as long as you have a…

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Review of Eros (2004)

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

I'd say that this mixed bag is better toted home from a video store, but Wong Kar-Wai's just not as swoony on a picture tube...cineastes, proceed…

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Review of Fever Pitch (2005)

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

Fever Pitch may be something short of miraculous, but perhaps it isn't how you play the game that matters after all, as long as you have a…

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Review of Look at Me (2004)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 31 Mar 2005

Look at Me...states the film's theme: the difficulty of getting...attention and the horrible realization that, when it comes, it usually comes…

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Review of Mondovino (2004)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 25 Mar 2005

Here among the grapes is the flow of history, draining aging old-world tradition to its dregs as speed-oriented mass production tops it off…

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Review of Sin City (2005)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 24 Mar 2005

Retrograde, sexist, and gleefully sadistic... pitiable and fearful in the language we go to the movies to learn…

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Review of After Midnight (2004)

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

A beautiful and beguiling film about love, cinema, and love of cinema...has the quirky, breezy quality of a bicycle ride by night…

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