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Review of Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 09 Aug 2006

Like other films of the 1970s, Pollack's saga combines nostalgia and cynicism in equal measure, thus pleasing both right-wing and left-wing…

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Review of The Science of Sleep (2006)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 08 Aug 2006

As weird and playful as Eternal Sunshine, but not as romantic or engaging, this structurally messy, visualy busy film is a reflection of Gondry's…

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Review of K-PAX (2001)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 08 Aug 2006

A nonsensical therapeutic melodrma about the shifting relationship between a mentally disturbed patient (badly acted by Spacey), who claims…

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Review of 35 Up (1991)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 07 Aug 2006

Part of Apted's seminal series that began with 7Up, this segment has different dynamics, emphasizing the children of the subjects and the deaths…

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Review of 42 Up (1999)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 07 Aug 2006

Part of Apted seminal docu series that began with 7Up, then 14, 28, and 35, this chapter centers on the subjects as they head into middle-age,…

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Review of Keeper of the Flame (1943)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 07 Aug 2006

Director Cukor thought the plot was fraudulent, and the film is the worst collaboration of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in her first…

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Review of The Blue Angel (1930)

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

A seminal work in world cinema, it's best known as the movie that catapulted Dietrich to int'l stardom, but it remains one of the most powerful…

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Review of Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)

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

Visually, action director Hill may be paying tribute to Ford's Westerns in the way he positions the chase and fight scenes against the panormaic…

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Review of The Night Listener (2006)

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

A frustrating thriller whose first half is intriguing and ambiguous, but second one is generic without delivering the basic goods, Stettner's…

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Review of Chisum (1970)

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

Like other Wayne movies, there's complete identification between reel and real life: Chisum is described as fat wealthy, tough, trusting, stubborn,…

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Review of Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)

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

Though uneven in humor, sketchy in structure and silly in its moralism, it's still fun to watch this sendup of car racing, which brings out…

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Review of Gerry (2002)

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

Likely to sharply divide critics, Gerry goes back to his indie roots with a minimalist work that carries itself almost entirely through the…

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Review of American Beauty (1999)

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

Brit Sam Mendes makes an impressive directorial debut with a glossy, well-acted satire of the American burbs, a theatrically stylized meditation…

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Review of Gladiator (1992)

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

Notwithsdanding the blood, gore, and CG effects, this is an old-fashioned historical saga, a throwabck to the sand-and-sandals epics of Quo…

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Review of Rain Man (1988)

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

The film's immense success may be attributed to its messages about family values, or more specifically the rediscovery of love between two…

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Review of Gladiator (2000)

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

Notwithsdanding the blood, gore, and CG effects, this is an old-fashioned historical saga, a throwabck to the sand-and-sandals epics of Quo…

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Review of Out of Africa (1985)

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

Bloated and tedious, Pollack's attempt at epic cinema is hampered by failure to provide clues about the meaning of Africa for Dinesen as writer…

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Review of The Third Man (1949)

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

An undisputed masterpiece, this movie captures the mood of Vienna in post-WWII like no other, and is also a testimony to film as a collaborative…

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Review of The Band Wagon (1953)

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

Minnelli's best musical is sparked by witty allusions to real-life showbiz persona like pretentious actor Jose Ferrer and birlliant but aging…

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Review of Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

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

The first and best of the three versions of the famous mutiny is a big budget production, a stirring sea adventure praised at the time for…

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