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Review of The Girlfriend Experience (2009)

By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 21 May 2009

The Girlfriend Experience functions as a sharp, poignant allegory, despite its relentless focus and wealth of concise, specific detail…

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Review of Girlfriend Experience (2008)

By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 21 May 2009

The Girlfriend Experience functions as a sharp, poignant allegory, despite its relentless focus and wealth of concise, specific detail…

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Review of Adoration ou la transsubstantiation (1987)

By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 15 May 2009

Takes a powerful, simple subject and mucks up its exploration with elaborate stylistic complications and moments of pure over direction…

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Review of Adoration (2009)

By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 15 May 2009

Takes a powerful, simple subject and mucks up its exploration with elaborate stylistic complications and moments of pure over direction…

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Review of Star Trek (2009)

By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 05 May 2009

The final frontier of space is once again the place to be…

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Review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 30 Apr 2009

Hugh Jackman generates the pathos required for us to understand the lifetime of pain and suffering that turned the man into the beast…

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Review of The Soloist (2009)

By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 21 Apr 2009

These characters are much more interesting on paper than they prove to be when fleshed out over the course of the picture…

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Review of Every Little Step (2008)

By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 16 Apr 2009

The filmmakers establish the continued potency of the show's timeless exhortation to follow your dreams and do what you love, no matter the cost…

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Review of Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008)

By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 13 Apr 2009

A complicated portrait of complicated men, an adeptly assembled character study that shows how limitless fame and fortune might not be the…

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Review of Adventureland (2009)

By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 01 Apr 2009

A period piece that makes up for its lack of dramatic heft with small moments filled with nostalgia and warmth…

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Review of Alien Trespass (2009)

By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 31 Mar 2009

The movie is a curiosity, to be sure, but one fostered by an enjoyably nostalgic spirit…

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Review of Monsters vs Aliens (2009)

By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 26 Mar 2009

The movie ably disguises its conventional kids' fare premise in a clever satiric shell…

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Review of I Love You, Man (2009)

By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 16 Mar 2009

Although Rudd and Segel are charming guys, and it can be a kick to watch them throw improvised riffs at one another, that's not sufficient…

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Review of Last Chance Harvey (2008)

By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 15 Mar 2009

Last Chance Harvey simultaneously functions as a valentine to the city [of London] and an intensely personal character study…

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Review of The Great Buck Howard (2008)

By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 15 Mar 2009

Malkovich carries the picture with such gusto that it would be worth watching were it simply a one-man stage show…

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Review of The International Player (2009)

By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 13 Mar 2009

The film offers a classic example of a screenwriter boxing himself in a narrative corner from which there is no escape…

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Review of The International (2009)

By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 13 Mar 2009

The film offers a classic example of a screenwriter boxing himself in a narrative corner from which there is no escape…

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Review of Coraline (2009)

By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 13 Mar 2009

The quality of Selick's craft and the dense, haunting nature of Gaiman's morality tale for children collectively make Coraline a resonant visceral…

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Review of Sunshine Cleaning (2008)

By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 11 Mar 2009

[The film] benefits greatly from the inspired casting by director Christine Jeffs and her team, and the insights into loss and motherhood professed…

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