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Review of The Graduate (1967)

By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 24 Jun 2006

Nichols takes an ad hoc approach to comic irony and the movie seems to have been enshrined by American audiences because each moment in isolation…

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Review of Bloody Sunday (2002)

By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 23 Jun 2006

Bloody Sunday demonstrates an historical thesis formulated in retrospect, which fits oddly with Greengrass's continuous-present technique…

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Review of Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)

By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 02 May 2006

[Sophie and Hans] embody the adolescent faith that any political action is better than none, and the movie couldn't treat them more glowingly…

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Review of Life Is Beautiful (1997)

By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 22 Mar 2006

Benigni does with the Nazi setting what Chaplin didn't dare in The Great Dictator--he lets the liberating nonsense triumph…

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Review of The Pianist (2002)

By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 22 Mar 2006

[I]t takes six or seven people to keep one half-dead Jew alive…

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Review of Syriana (2005)

By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 27 Feb 2006

Gaghan piles one storyline on another but is only interested in suggesting where they trend, working like a (cynical) editorialist who has…

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Review of Munich (2005)

By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 27 Feb 2006

[T]he brow-scrunching and ethical debates don't grow out of the assassinations, they merely follow them, and are not only inadequate but irrelevant…

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Review of Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 17 Jan 2006

Allen starts with a sketchy premise and after working it through for 107 minutes he still has no more than the premise he started with…

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Review of Match Point (2005)

By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 17 Jan 2006

Allen develops characters and situations here as if he had jotted the major points down on the back of an envelope and then used the envelope…

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Review of Match Point (2005)

By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 17 Jan 2006

Allen develops characters and situations here as if he had jotted the major points down on the back of an envelope and then used the envelope…

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Review of Zelig (1983)

By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 17 Jan 2006

Allen is one of the most recognizable, and least protean, performers.... [P]erhaps ... someone else as Zelig…

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Review of Melinda and Melinda (2004)

By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 17 Jan 2006

Allen presents the side-by-side stories as if to compare the comic and tragic views of experience, and it might work but for the fact that…

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Review of Brokeback Mountain (2005)

By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 09 Jan 2006

[T]he movie plays like any soap opera about a love that cannot be--the weeper mechanism is entirely familiar from hetero movies…

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Review of Pride & Prejudice (2005)

By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 26 Dec 2005

[A]dapted ... by Deborah Moggach and directed by Joe Wright with as much feel for what it means to be a novel as any adaptation of one I can think of…

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Review of Oliver Twist (2005)

By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 26 Dec 2005

[T]he maddening thing is not just that we hardly need another movie adaptation of [Oliver Twist]…

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Review of The Ref (1994)

By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 19 Dec 2005

[Judy Davis and Kevin Spacey] play this strident high comedy duet with a self-sustaining brio that easily puts them on the level of the stars…

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Review of Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic (2005)

By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 01 Dec 2005

[A] polluted oasis for refugees from 'positive,' heartwarming, family-friendly entertainment…

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Review of The End of the Affair (1999)

By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 19 Nov 2005

The whole thing is beyond purple and yet so careful and reverent you can't even enjoy it as camp…

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Review of North Country (2005)

By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 19 Nov 2005

Victorian melodrama in feminist workduds…

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Review of Proof (1991)

By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 09 Nov 2005

[A]n infantile fantasy ... of not just being daddy's favorite but being chosen, by some mysterious power, to inherit his gift…

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