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Review of Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 19 Jan 2007

Where Flags seemed overwrought and furious with meaning, Letters is eloquent and profound…

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Review of Iraq in Fragments (2006)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 06 Jan 2007

Longley's journalistic discipline is as impressive as his artistic eye: He's content to show, not tell…

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Review of Children of Men (2006)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 05 Jan 2007

a lot better in its specific realizations of what chaos and murder must look, sound and feel like than in offering anything of lasting sustenance…

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Review of Sherrybaby (2006)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 01 Jan 2007

Gyllenhaal couldn't be better in service of a film that seems to focus on the wrong character; the more interesting point of view would be…

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Review of Rocky Balboa (2006)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 23 Dec 2006

Like a fictional counterpart to Michael Apted's Up documentaries, the Rocky films have provided us with a character bounded by mortality and…

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Review of The Good Shepherd (2006)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 23 Dec 2006

solid and thoughtful but relatively unexciting -- the kind of film that's more admired than loved…

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Review of The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 17 Dec 2006

Smith's performance is terrific, but it's in service of a clumsy, heavy-handed film that believes the ultimate measure of a man is how hard…

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Review of Blood Diamond (2006)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 11 Dec 2006

For all its good intentions, the film ends clumsily, and it is possible to miss the complicity of the bling-bling West in these African nightmares…

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Review of Cocaine Cowboys (1979)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 11 Dec 2006

darkly exploitative, titillating and ultimately sobering…

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Review of Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing (2006)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 11 Dec 2006

The Dixie Chicks are who we thought they were…

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Review of Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 06 Dec 2006

gorgeously photographed and, like Babel, a subtly organized commentary on the ways people strive to communicate…

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Review of Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 24 Nov 2006

Starts out inspired ... ends up sort of lame, obvious, and kind of tired,…

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Review of Casino Royale (2006)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 20 Nov 2006

Daniel Craig is probably the best actor ever to take on the role ... more Steve McQueen than Cary Grant, closer to the bone…

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Review of Casino Royale (1967)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 20 Nov 2006

Daniel Craig is probably the best actor ever to take on the role ... more Steve McQueen than Cary Grant, closer to the bone…

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Review of The Queen (2006)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 20 Nov 2006

The movie moves from farce to revelation the monster gains our empathy, we come to a place where we might weep for a queen…

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Review of Casino Royale (1954)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 20 Nov 2006

Daniel Craig is probably the best actor ever to take on the role ... more Steve McQueen than Cary Grant, closer to the bone…

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Review of Shortbus (2006)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 20 Nov 2006

Everybody has a right to pursue what makes them happy, so long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process…

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Review of Babel (2006)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 10 Nov 2006

From the past to the present to the future, from savagery to civilization to a kind of cybernetic autism. Babel does what a movie can do…

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Review of Babel (2008)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 10 Nov 2006

From the past to the present to the future, from savagery to civilization to a kind of cybernetic autism. Babel does what a movie can do…

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Review of The House of Sand (2005)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 03 Nov 2006

a part of a classic art-house tradition, that of the starkly beautiful yet chilly movie that haunts the memory without compelling any particular…

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