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Review of Patriot Games (1992)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 06 Oct 2006

The film's dominant motif is that of revenge. In a key scene, the wife tells her husband (Harrison Ford): You get him…

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Review of Cheatin' Hearts (1993)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 05 Oct 2006

Despite Sally Kirkland's dominant perfromance, the story of effects of marriage breakup is familiar, the writing uninspired and the direction…

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Review of Panther (1998)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 05 Oct 2006

In his fictionalized story, Van Peebles simplifies the history of the Black Panthers, doing harm to a subject that he presumably intends to…

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Review of Paris Is Burning (1991)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 05 Oct 2006

This landmark docu celebrates the resourcefulness of a group that's subcultural but not truly countercultural--its denizens long to become…

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Review of The Paper (1994)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 05 Oct 2006

An overwrought, hysterical drama about the newspaper business that doesn't begin to compare to Hollywood's classics of the genre (The Front…

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Review of Panther (1995)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 05 Oct 2006

In his fictionalized story, Van Peebles simplifies the history of the Black Panthers, doing harm to a subject that he presumably intends to…

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Review of Panic Room (2002)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 04 Oct 2006

Fincher is such a technically brilliant director that he can elevate a genre film--a suspenser about a damsel-in-distress--above its melodramatic…

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Review of The Pirate (1948)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 04 Oct 2006

Consciosuly campy, this musical was misunderstood at the time…

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Review of The Passion of the Christ (2004)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 04 Oct 2006

Easily the most controversial film of the year, Gibson's fil is a visually bold, relentlessly violent epos that suffers from a shallow, undernourished…

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Review of The Philadelphia Story (1940)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 04 Oct 2006

Approaching it as fairytale with moral--Hepburn meets her prince but gums it up and need to rediscover her own humanity--Cukor directs with…

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Review of Salaam Bombay! (1988)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 03 Oct 2006

Nair's debut, winner of Cannes Festival Camera d'Or, tells the harrowing story of one boy's life among thieves, prostitutes and drug dealers…

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Review of For Your Consideration (2006)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 03 Oct 2006

Funny and precise, Guest's parody of Hollywood's hype machine and award-obsession reaffrims that he is not only an auteur but also a whole…

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Review of Mississippi Masala (1991)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 03 Oct 2006

Unlike Lee's Jungle Fever, which also deals with interracial romance, Nair's film is non-judgmental, taking neither moral ground nor faulting…

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Review of Melvin and Howard (1980)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 03 Oct 2006

The film offers a bittersweet commentary about chasing the American Dream of monetary success abd mobility and the constant attempt to rise…

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Review of Schindler's List (1993)

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

Spielberg's tribute to the Holocaust reps Hollywood cinema at its best…

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Review of Copying Beethoven (2006)

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

Bargain-basement Amadeus, this Beethoven biopic is even worse than the 1994 Immortal Beloved…

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Review of Breaking and Entering (2006)

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

This timely anatomy of one problematic neighborhood, where race, class, and sex interface and crash (as in the film Crash) begins well but…

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Review of Sergeant York (1941)

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

Setting a precedent by preseting the saga of a celeb sill alive, the Hawks biopic is a tale of transformation of an obscure Tennessee hillbilly…

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Review of Wake Island (1942)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 19 Sep 2006

Though largely fictionalized, this is a moving report of the defense of the Pacific Island base, with strong emphasis on the heroic gallantry…

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Review of Waiting for the Moon (1987)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 18 Sep 2006

Almost contemptuous of fact, this unconvincing lesbian romance opts for a soft, amorphous approach in depicting the elationship between the…

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