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Review of Rat Race (2001)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 01 Nov 2006

Manic, messy, and for the most part silly, this road comedy marks Zucker's bumpy return to the genre after a number of equally bumpy dramas…

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Review of Walking and Talking (1996)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 31 Oct 2006

A romantic comedy about NY yuppies, who are always on the telephone, set in the West Village, idealized by Holofcener as a cozy neighborhood…

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Review of Rambling Rose (1991)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 31 Oct 2006

Seen in a flashback through the eyes of an adolescent, this uncommon coming-of-age tale, which raises poignant questions about the mysteries…

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Review of Racing with the Moon (1984)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 31 Oct 2006

A sentimental view of small-town life in WWII, in which the railroads and train station are just as important as the human characters…

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Review of Rachel River (1989)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 31 Oct 2006

Well acted by Pamela Reed, the film offers a vivid, comic and touching view of ordinary life in rural Minnesota…

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Review of The Waterdance (1992)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 31 Oct 2006

What's most striking about the film is its meticulous attention to detai, authenticity, and tight focus: This is the story of 3 ordinary guys,…

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Review of Raggedy Man (1981)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 31 Oct 2006

Worth seeing for Sissy Spacek's turn, but the film is incoherent, borrowing elements from To Kill a Mockingbird (Sam Shepard's strange) character…

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Review of Hester Street (1975)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 30 Oct 2006

Though lacking plot or in-depth characterization, Silver's ultra-modest debut is likable, in large measure due to her channeling of 1970s feminist…

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Review of Days of Glory (2006)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 30 Oct 2006

Bouchareb's WWII epic took more than a decade to make, but dealing with racism and injustice within the French army, is at once an impressive…

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Review of Hart's War (2002)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 30 Oct 2006

Nationality, race and politics clash in unexpected ways in this well-directed and acted but extremely old-fashioned prison drama that recalls…

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Review of Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 30 Oct 2006

A witty Godardian film-essay in which Hudson's films come under caustic scrutiny that dissects the latent contents of his screen persona--you'll…

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Review of Harrison's Flowers (2000)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 30 Oct 2006

A stronger actress, say Michelle Pfeiffer or Cate Blanchette, would have given this political melodrama more credibility and power, but Andie…

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Review of Bataan (1943)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 30 Oct 2006

Since it was basically a tale of defeat, the nervous producers emphasized heroism, but later, under criticism of fabricating the facts with…

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Review of Harriet the Spy (1996)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 30 Oct 2006

A below mediocre adaptation of the popular novel that is nonetheless served well by the two female leads, but all representative of the adults…

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Review of Absolute Wilson (2006)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 28 Oct 2006

Though more celebratory than truly critical, and dealing more with the artist than the private eperson, being the first docu of one of the…

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Review of Hondo (1953)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 28 Oct 2006

Directed by John Farrow in 3-D, this Western resembles George Stevens' Shane (released few months earlier), based on the premise that to become…

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Review of Head in the Clouds (2004)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 28 Oct 2006

Even as a potboiler, this melodrama is too silly and improbable to be enjoyed as trash…

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Review of Climates (2006)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 27 Oct 2006

A director of noncompromising art films, Ceylan has made an existential meditation on solitude and the fleeting nature of happiness that in…

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Review of Howards End (1992)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 26 Oct 2006

Along with Room With a View, this films represents the best of the Ismail-Merchant literary adaptations, one in which contents and style are…

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Review of Act of Violence (1949)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 25 Oct 2006

One of MGM's best film noirs and one of Zinnemann's early films to deal with what would become a recurrent issue in his owrk: Men tormented…

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