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Review of More Than A Game (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 12 Jun 2010

While not a particularly great documentary, it succeeds hugely at what it sets out to do, aided by a dramatic storyline that would probably…

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Review of The Wrestler (2008)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 12 Jun 2010

Rourke doesn't need makeup to look this permanently damaged these days, and some of the emotional scars in his performance probably run painfully…

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Review of The Wrestler (1984)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 12 Jun 2010

Rourke doesn't need makeup to look this permanently damaged these days, and some of the emotional scars in his performance probably run painfully…

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Review of RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (2008)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 12 Jun 2010

Gaylor shows us a glimpse of what a creatively free world can look like on the artistic scale, via artists like Girl Talk, and on a broader,…

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Review of Convention (2009)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 12 Jun 2010

While Convention may be more traditional documentary fare in content than his last film, A.J…

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Review of Terminator Salvation (2009)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 12 Jun 2010

McG demonstrates a complete inability to understand what made the Cameron Terminator films so good…

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Review of Afghan Star (2008)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 12 Jun 2010

For all the dramatic pull of the competition and insight into current culture and politics in Afghanistan, it's a bit of a shame that the film…

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Review of Trouble the Water (2008)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 11 Jun 2010

The most affecting footage of Hurricane Katrina ever seen comes from an amateur camcorder bought on the street for twenty bucks…

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Review of Synecdoche, New York (2008)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 11 Jun 2010

The line between reality and imagination, possibility and pipe-dream, become immaterial, and the film becomes the overflowing contents of a…

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Review of Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 11 Jun 2010

Respect for the environment is not a moral issue for Herzog, but a common sense issue of survival…

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Review of What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 11 Jun 2010

In WWJB, we don't really feel like we get to know anyone that well, not even the primary subjects of the film: Billy and his choir…

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Review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 11 Jun 2010

It's not an inherently flawed premise, but it is in writer Roth's saccharine-stained hands…

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Review of Lake of Fire (2006)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 09 Jun 2010

Doesn't aim to win converts or preach to the converted…

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Review of Rendition (2007)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 09 Jun 2010

Designed to make us feel like we've just witnessed a powerful experience…

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Review of Eastern Promises (2007)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 09 Jun 2010

Clearly a companion piece to (and just as good as, if not better than) 2005's fantastic A History of Violence, Eastern Promises is all about…

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Review of The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 08 Jun 2010

Even if you've never so much as eaten a single ghost in a game of Ms. Pac-Man, King of Kong is still a remarkable (and remarkably hilarious) film…

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Review of Matthew Barney: No Restraint (2006)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 08 Jun 2010

How it is that such a polarizing artist coule be the subject of such a tepid documentary is nearly as much of a mystery as the often convoluted…

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Review of Hot Fuzz (2007)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 08 Jun 2010

Works because they set out to make a faithful genre picture just as equally as a comedy…

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Review of Sicko (2007)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 08 Jun 2010

Moore depoliticizes the health care crisis by humanizing it, and drops the polemic in favor of a plea: for us to care about each other a little more…

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Review of The Gates (2008)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 08 Jun 2010

The film's editing is transparent in its objective: to show how opposition and rancor turn to smiles and tranquility in the face of Christo…

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