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Review of The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 27 Dec 2009

Actress-cum-director Jodie Marshall brings a studied adaptation of Tennessee Williams unpublished and unproduced screenplay that lays bare…

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Review of Sherlock Holmes (2011)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 22 Dec 2009

You'd need a special magnifying glass to identify any elements of Doyle's original literary source material that lends the title character his name…

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Review of Sherlock Holmes (2009)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 22 Dec 2009

You'd need a special magnifying glass to identify any elements of Doyle's original literary source material that lends the title character his name…

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Review of Nine (2009)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 13 Dec 2009

If a Broadway musical loosely based on Federico Fellini's 1963 deconstructionist masterpiece 8 1/2 sounds like a recipe for disaster, it is…

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Review of It's Complicated (2009)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 11 Dec 2009

No one cries like Meryl Streep…

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Review of Invictus (2009)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 05 Dec 2009

Morgan Freeman's brilliant performance as Nelson Mandela is the kind of transformation that Academy Award members aggressively reward come…

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Review of The Lovely Bones (2009)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 05 Dec 2009

In spite of its obvious flaws, The Lovely Bones carries an inertia of unmistakable tension, care of Peter Jackson, that makes it a suspenseful…

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Review of A Single Man (2009)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 04 Dec 2009

Fashion designer Tom Ford makes a credible filmmaking debut…

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Review of Ninja Assassin (2009)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 29 Nov 2009

James McTeigue (V for Vendetta) directs this unpredictable acrobatic display of violent spectacle that carries its themes of loyalty and skill…

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Review of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 26 Nov 2009

While he hasn't made a perfect film, Terry Gilliam preserves the memory of Heath Ledger in a way that appropriately matches his own sense of…

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Review of Pecker (2010)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 26 Nov 2009

There are many odd treats, like seeing former SLA hostage Patty Hearst dancing on a bar in a low-cut slip and getting a crash course in tea-baggng…

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Review of Pecker (1998)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 26 Nov 2009

There are many odd treats, like seeing former SLA hostage Patty Hearst dancing on a bar in a low-cut slip and getting a crash course in tea-baggng…

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Review of Me and Orson Welles (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 22 Nov 2009

The filmmakers would have done better to make a film called Orson Welles at the Mercury, and construct it around Christian McKay's impeccable…

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Review of Broken Embraces (2009)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 15 Nov 2009

what we see here is a flawed sampler of comedy, noir, melodrama, and luscious compositions…

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Review of The Red Cliff (1949)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 12 Nov 2009

John Woo fulfills on Red Cliff's reputation as the most expensive Chinese-language film ever made with a mesmerizing war epic that concentrates…

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Review of Red Cliff (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 12 Nov 2009

John Woo fulfills on Red Cliff's reputation as the most expensive Chinese-language film ever made with a mesmerizing war epic that concentrates…

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Review of 2012 (2009)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 11 Nov 2009

Sure the blu-ray DVD will look great on your home theater as ambient background for your next house party, but that's about it…

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Review of The Box (2009)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 11 Nov 2009

Riffing on a Twilight Zone-themed morality tale, writer/director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) sets the table for a three-course meal of supernatural…

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Review of The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 05 Nov 2009

The Men Who Stare at Goats falls into the politically impotent sub-genre of lightweight satire of which Charlie Wilson's War and The Informant…

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Review of The House of the Devil (2009)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 02 Nov 2009

The film is a perfectly pitched old-school horror homage to a '70s/'80s-era of cinema that should have been…

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