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Review of Closer (2014)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 02 Dec 2004

It's a rare film in that it thoroughly involves the audience without presenting a likable character…

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Review of Closer (2013)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 02 Dec 2004

It's a rare film in that it thoroughly involves the audience without presenting a likable character…

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Review of Infernal Affairs (2002)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 02 Dec 2004

Infernal Affairs is the combustible Hong Kong fever dream that would emerge from a night spent watching Heat and Donnie Brasco back to back…

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Review of Closer (2004)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 02 Dec 2004

It's a rare film in that it thoroughly involves the audience without presenting a likable character…

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Review of Dig! (2004)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 26 Nov 2004

Obsessed with two insignificant musical acts…

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Review of Enduring Love (2004)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 24 Nov 2004

The intensity floats away like an out-of-control hot-air balloon, which carries its passengers off into oblivion…

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Review of Alexander (2004)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 24 Nov 2004

Like Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, Alexander is an overindulgent, sprawling specimen of the director's lavish strengths and harrowing…

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Review of Christmas with the Kranks (2004)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 24 Nov 2004

Agonizingly cruel to its audience and actors alike, and laden with jokes that have been done many times before, and the original gags have…

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Review of Alexander (1996)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 24 Nov 2004

Like Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, Alexander is an overindulgent, sprawling specimen of the director's lavish strengths and harrowing…

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Review of Sideways (2009)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 18 Nov 2004

The Miles character is a glorious, multifaceted diamond prism of painful humanity, filled out by Giamatti's immersive acting and the unflashy,…

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Review of Being Julia (2004)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 18 Nov 2004

Julia may not be a master of love, relationships or self-examination, but she's sure got this acting thing down. And so has luminescent Bening…

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Review of National Treasure (2004)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 18 Nov 2004

A radical adventure it is, with Nicolas Cage strapping on the hero boots to solve clues, dodge bullets and dangle off of underground wooden…

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Review of National Treasure (1927)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 18 Nov 2004

A radical adventure it is, with Nicolas Cage strapping on the hero boots to solve clues, dodge bullets and dangle off of underground wooden…

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Review of Sideways (2004)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 18 Nov 2004

The Miles character is a glorious, multifaceted diamond prism of painful humanity, filled out by Giamatti's immersive acting and the unflashy,…

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Review of After the Sunset (2004)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 11 Nov 2004

Ratner's films chug with the precision of a machine, and with just as little soul…

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Review of The Polar Express (2004)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 10 Nov 2004

Either the year's worst children's film or its best horror flick…

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Review of Casablanca (1943)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 04 Nov 2004

The movie gods kissed the production with a confluence of brilliant writing, photography and acting, with all parties collaborating at their…

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Review of Alfie (2004)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 03 Nov 2004

Law, chronically aware of his own charm, doesn't mimic Caine's performance; he rei-nterprets the character and sparks it with a new life, making…

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Review of Saints and Soldiers (2003)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 03 Nov 2004

A solid, good-looking effort that bends a bit too much toward war-film conventions…

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Review of Alfie (2013)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 03 Nov 2004

Law, chronically aware of his own charm, doesn't mimic Caine's performance; he rei-nterprets the character and sparks it with a new life, making…

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