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Review of Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)

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

That each of the thousands of panels represents a life as unique as the five witnessed on screen is heartbreaking…

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Review of Crumb (1995)

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

This brilliant docu is not just a portrait of a compulsive artist, but also a deep inquiry into the mysteries of art, creativity, mental illness…

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Review of The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

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

Like a Swiss clock, Allen is the only American director who makes a film every year, but chronic fatigue and lack of inspiration seem to have…

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Review of Crossroads (2002)

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

Naive and amateurish in both the negative and positive sense of these terms, Crossroads provides a disappointing showcase for pop icon and…

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Review of Crimes Of The Heart (2003)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 02 Jun 2006

Using eccentric personalities situated in seemingly ordinary locales, Beresford's comedy is still too theatrical to qualify as cinema, but…

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Review of Crimes of the Heart (1986)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 02 Jun 2006

Using eccentric personalities situated in seemingly ordinary locales, Beresford's comedy is still too theatrical to qualify as cinema, but…

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Review of Cobb (1994)

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

Tommy Lee Jones gives an uncompromisingly volcanic performance as the psychotic bigot, one of baseball greatest players, known for his aggressive…

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Review of Come Back, Little Sheba (1953)

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

In this adaptation of Inge's play, Daniel Mann, a specialist of melodramas, gets a good performance from Shirely Booth as a self-pitying housewife…

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Review of Clean, Shaven (1995)

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

Kerrigan succeeds in challenging stereotypes of mental illness as seen in movies and TV: Clean, Shaven is a stark ripose to the Hollywood notion…

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Review of A Scanner Darkly (2006)

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

Though not as impressive as Waking Life, and failing to update Dick's concerns, Scanner Darkly is a serviceable rotoscoping of the 1977 work…

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Review of Citizen Ruth (1996)

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

Uncharacteristically of Payne, the film lacks a sharp point of view, unfloding as a series of gigs (some quite funny), trying to be too fair--for…

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Review of Casa de los Babys (2003)

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

Didactic rather than dramatic, and schematic rather than realistic, Sayles' femme-driven yarn, set in an anonymous place, lags behind the zeitgeist…

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Review of Clerks (1994)

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

Smith dogpiles absurdity and obscenity on top of each other…

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Review of Choose Me (1984)

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

Arguably Rudolf's finest achievement, a moody romantic fable, with lurid visuals and intoxicating jazzy score, in which all the characters…

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Review of Bug (2007)

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

Bug can't decide if it's a woman-in-peril noir thriller or a modernist paranoia saga, so it just gets weirder, bloodier, and grosser…

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Review of Cars (2006)

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

Most of the ingredients that have made Pixar-Disney animations pure delight and box-office bonanza are evident in Cars, a technically impressive,…

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Review of Bug (1975)

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

Bug can't decide if it's a woman-in-peril noir thriller or a modernist paranoia saga, so it just gets weirder, bloodier, and grosser…

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Review of Chocolat (2000)

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

A mythic fable about tolerance and love with the bitter-swet flavor of a candy that's not entirely fresh but still digestible…

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Review of The Caveman's Valentine (2001)

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

A sophomore jinx for Lemmons, an overstuffed drama that fails to satisfy as a murder mystery or as a spiritual redemption saga of a homeless…

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Review of Bug (2002)

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

Bug can't decide if it's a woman-in-peril noir thriller or a modernist paranoia saga, so it just gets weirder, bloodier, and grosser…

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