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Review of Music and Lyrics (2007)

By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 14 Feb 2007

Music and Lyrics is also given buoyancy by the pitch-perfect songs composed by Adam Schlesinger, the talented pop ironist of the band Fountains…

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Review of Daddy's Little Girls (2007)

By John Monaghan (292) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 14 Feb 2007

Daddy's Little Girls is [Perry's] best-looking film to date. Is it asking too much for a script to match…

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Review of Norbit (2007)

By John Monaghan (292) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 09 Feb 2007

After taking in double helpings of Tyler Perry and Martin Lawrence doing the same shtick in the Madea movies and Big Momma's House, isn't it…

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Review of Hannibal Rising (2007)

By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 09 Feb 2007

He's just another cheap icon, set not to haunt our worst nightmares, but the cash-cow dreams of a studio looking for a franchise player…

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Review of Sweet Land (2005)

By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 02 Feb 2007

A film of uncommon grace, one that transports you to an America that seems innately familiar even though you have never seen it depicted on-screen…

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Review of Because I Said So (2007)

By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 02 Feb 2007

What makes this seem sad instead of simply silly is the way Keaton throws herself into this slop…

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Review of Venus (1990)

By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 26 Jan 2007

Venus is emotionally affecting, not because O'Toole's Maurice is coping with mortality, but because of the honest way he confronts it…

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Review of Catch and Release (2006)

By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 26 Jan 2007

There are some interesting, if less than original, ideas stuck between all the comic banter and the unlikely romantic relationship you see…

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Review of Smokin' Aces (2006)

By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 26 Jan 2007

Anyone with a brain bigger than those of the Tremors will have figured out the big Usual Suspects twists that are designed to give all this…

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Review of Venus (2011)

By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 26 Jan 2007

Venus is emotionally affecting, not because O'Toole's Maurice is coping with mortality, but because of the honest way he confronts it…

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Review of Venus (2006)

By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 26 Jan 2007

Venus is emotionally affecting, not because O'Toole's Maurice is coping with mortality, but because of the honest way he confronts it…

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Review of Venus (2010)

By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 26 Jan 2007

Venus is emotionally affecting, not because O'Toole's Maurice is coping with mortality, but because of the honest way he confronts it…

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Review of Venus (2006)

By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 26 Jan 2007

Venus is emotionally affecting, not because O'Toole's Maurice is coping with mortality, but because of the honest way he confronts it…

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Review of Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 12 Jan 2007

It skillfully avoids the usual war movie clichés while providing multiple points of entry…

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Review of Alpha Dog (2006)

By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 12 Jan 2007

While Alpha Dog is a cautionary tale, it too often revels in its own bad-boy attitude…

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Review of Stomp the Yard (2007)

By John Monaghan (292) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 12 Jan 2007

Are the dancers at least amazing? It's hard to say because novice director Sylvain White never gives us a decent look at them…

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Review of Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)

By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 12 Jan 2007

Curse is straightforward and solemn, lacking not for spectacle but for humor and a humanizing touch…

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Review of Freedom Writers (2007)

By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 05 Jan 2007

What is profoundly different about this based-on-fact film is that although we leave the theater wishing there were more teachers as devoted…

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Review of Miss Potter (2006)

By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 05 Jan 2007

Miss Potter is the first movie to be directed by Chris Noonan since Babe, and it has a similar intelligence and grace…

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Review of Children of Men (2006)

By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 05 Jan 2007

Fasten your seat belt; you're in for a bumpy, provocative ride…

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