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Review of Offside (2006)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 15 May 2007

Panahi's films are the modern equivalent of messages in bottles, hurled out to sea in hopes that those in other, freer lands might see what he sees…

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Review of Away from Her (2007)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 15 May 2007

Away From Her is at once one of the most romantic love stories and most frightening horror films I've ever seen…

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Review of Offside (2006)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 15 May 2007

Panahi's films are the modern equivalent of messages in bottles, hurled out to sea in hopes that those in other, freer lands might see what he sees…

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Review of Offside (2006)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 15 May 2007

Panahi's films are the modern equivalent of messages in bottles, hurled out to sea in hopes that those in other, freer lands might see what he sees…

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Review of That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 05 May 2007

Buñuel made often perverse, always subversive films that drew protests, bans and undying appreciation from colleagues…

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Review of Spider-Man 3 (2007)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 01 May 2007

Mean Spider-Man wrecks city streets for no reason, makes sarcastic remarks, interpretive dances and is actually pretty funny…

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Review of Lucky You (2007)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 01 May 2007

Lucky You makes the career of a pro poker player seem simultaneously alluring and pathetic; funny and grim; romantic and depressing…

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Review of Black Book (2006)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 01 May 2007

Open up Black Book if you like your World War II dramas saucy, crass, sexually explicit and heedlessly entertaining…

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Review of Avenue Montaigne (2006)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 24 Apr 2007

You know where to find Avenue Montaigne. It's in Paris, near the intersection of Sappy Circle and Derivative Drive…

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Review of Happy Gilmore (1996)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 21 Apr 2007

From beginning to end, there's not a slow moment in Happy Gilmore, the Tiger Woods of gleefully idiotic comedy…

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Review of In the Land of Women (2007)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 17 Apr 2007

As Phyllis, Dukakis is every bit as effervescent as she was in her Oscar-winning supporting role in Moonstruck (1987)…

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Review of Fracture (2004)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 17 Apr 2007

Tight and lean, Fracture plays out with the vigor of a John Grisham novel and the suspense of a slasher flick. There's hardly a crack in this case…

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Review of Fracture (2007)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 17 Apr 2007

Tight and lean, Fracture plays out with the vigor of a John Grisham novel and the suspense of a slasher flick. There's hardly a crack in this case…

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Review of Disturbia (2007)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 10 Apr 2007

Disturbia is like Rear Window, only if Rear Window had been written and directed by morons and James Stewart had been replaced by a kid from…

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Review of Grindhouse (2007)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 04 Apr 2007

Their pastiches take the best of their nostalgic 1960s and '70s trash heap and reshape it into kitschy action comedies that stand as adoring…

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Review of The Hoax (2006)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 03 Apr 2007

Gere plays Irving as if he's some sort of hero, and indeed his exploits are easier to cheer for than Tobey Maguire's mopey Spider-Man…

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Review of The Reaping (2007)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 03 Apr 2007

At least the sordid screenplay provides this fantastic line, uttered by Ben: Forget about it…

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Review of The Host (2006)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 03 Apr 2007

Monster movies don't often stomp their way into theaters these days, and the entertaining yet vacant Korean film The Host provides a reason…

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Review of Blades of Glory (2007)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 27 Mar 2007

The directors make bold choices that keep the audience guessing. For instance, there's no groin-punch joke until 40 minutes in…

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Review of The Lookout (2007)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 27 Mar 2007

It's the characters and what they say and think that matter. The job is only an afterthought…

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