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Review of Haven (2004)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 20 Sep 2006

If ever a movie cried out for a DVD release instead of theatrical, this would be it…

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Review of Haven (2001)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 20 Sep 2006

If ever a movie cried out for a DVD release instead of theatrical, this would be it…

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Review of The Last Kiss (2006)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 14 Sep 2006

If The Last Kiss were truly honest, it might make a statement about young people compromising and settling…

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Review of The Black Dahlia (2006)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 14 Sep 2006

De Palma doesn't seem to know what to do with these actors…

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Review of Black Dahlia (2006)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 14 Sep 2006

De Palma doesn't seem to know what to do with these actors…

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Review of Hollywoodland (2006)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 07 Sep 2006

Hollywoodland may not live up to its ambitions, but thanks in no small part to a subdued and poignant performance by Affleck, it does achieve…

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Review of Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 06 Sep 2006

We're touched when we aren't expecting it…

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Review of Idlewild (2006)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 24 Aug 2006

So playful and vibrant that even when it stumbles, as it does fairly frequently, it's still an enjoyable spectacle…

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Review of Half Nelson (2006)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 24 Aug 2006

Half Nelson is fiction, but it is so truthful and potent, it lingers in the conscious like some story you heard on the news…

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Review of Lower City (2005)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 16 Aug 2006

Machado asks us to believe in the love between Karinna, Deco and Naldinho without ever making us feel anything but the tug of their sexual attraction…

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Review of Conversations with Other Women (2006)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 11 Aug 2006

This is a mature and very smart movie, one that evokes the secret histories of loves lost and longings that never fade completely…

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Review of World Trade Center (2006)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 08 Aug 2006

The storytelling is admirable, the focus is just right for anyone who prefers, if they have to revisit that day after all that despair, to…

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Review of Lady in the Water (2006)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 20 Jul 2006

It is a lovely, sincere movie with a nice message about believing in both otherworldly magic and the more mundane power of a community…

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Review of My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 19 Jul 2006

You don't go to movies like My Super Ex-Girlfriend to feel closure, you go to see Uma Thurman throw a shark at Luke Wilson through a plate…

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Review of You, Me and Dupree (2006)

By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 13 Jul 2006

You, Me and Dupree, a houseguest-from-hell tale, is an amiable comedy, but patched together from the plots of so many other movies, recent…

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Review of A Scanner Darkly (2006)

By Randy Myers (265) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 06 Jul 2006

This is a deeply personal work on the ravages of drug abuse, and the moral casualties suffered when governments fight it…

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Review of The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

By Randy Myers (265) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 29 Jun 2006

The real reason to see Devil is Streep's extraordinary performance. Without her, this Devil would have wound up a little threadbare…

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Review of The War Tapes (2006)

By Randy Myers (265) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 29 Jun 2006

Repeatedly hits us in the gut with the realities of war and might even make us re-evaluate our perceptions about the men who fight it…

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Review of Superman Returns (2006)

By Randy Myers (265) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 25 Jun 2006

Welcome back, Man of Steel, you've been gone far too long…

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Review of Nacho Libre (2006)

By Randy Myers (265) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 14 Jun 2006

Jack Black body slams his way into the heavyweight division of physical comedy with Nacho Libre…

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