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Review of May Fools (1990)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 29 Dec 2012

Though well acted by great French actors (Michel Piccoli), Malle's tale, set in 1968 in the countryside, is too light and trivial as family melodrama…

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Review of Journey for Margaret (1942)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 19 Dec 2012

At age 5, Margaret P'Brien became a major Hollywood star after playing a war orphan in this fact-inspired melodrama, based on a best-selling book…

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Review of The Guilt Trip (2012)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 18 Dec 2012

From Yentl to Yenta: At 70, Streisand still commands the screen with ease and charisma, but this mother-son comedy is so lame and retro that…

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Review of This Is 40 (2012)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 17 Dec 2012

Apatow's fourth directorial effort is sharply uneven, overextending its welcome by half an hour and suffering from a charmless performance…

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Review of Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 14 Dec 2012

After an hiatus, Sean Connery was lured back to the series with a huge paycheck but the end result is decidedly a mediocre feature…

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Review of Django Unchained (2012)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 12 Dec 2012

A companion piece to Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino's revenge tale is long, excessive, violent pulp Western, but it's well acted, sporadically…

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Review of Holy Motors (2012)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 10 Dec 2012

Carax has always been an enfant terrible with taste for excess, but Holy Motors, which has just won the L.A…

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Review of Promised Land (2012)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 06 Dec 2012

Fruitful collaboration between director Van Sant and star Damon, which resulted in excellent (Good Will Hunting) and idiosyncratic films (Gerry),…

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Review of Playing for Keeps (2012)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 05 Dec 2012

Wasting the talents of seveal charming actresses, this misogynistic romantic ccomedy is one of the silliest films of the year…

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Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 05 Dec 2012

The first chapter of Jackson's new trilogy is decent, if not enirely satisfying, bound to suffer from inevitable comparisons with the superior,…

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Review of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 02 Dec 2012

Artistically, Bond's sixth entry, the only one to star Aussie George Lazenby, is much better than given credit to, though commercially it was…

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Review of The Impossible (2012)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 24 Nov 2012

In his striking American debut, Bayona (Orphanage) achieves the almost impossible task of balancing a disaster movie of epic proportions with…

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Review of You Only Live Twice (2007)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 17 Nov 2012

The fifth Bond film, with Agent 007 in the East, is not as good as the previous ones, but it still offers escapist entertainment…

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Review of You Only Live Twice (1967)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 17 Nov 2012

The fifth Bond film, with Agent 007 in the East, is not as good as the previous ones, but it still offers escapist entertainment…

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Review of Juno and the Paycock (1930)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 14 Nov 2012

It had nothing to do with cinema, Hitchcock himself had said of his adaptation of Sean O'Casey play, though it's well acted by Sara Allgood…

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Review of Downhill (1927)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 12 Nov 2012

Though not one of Hitchcock's best silents, Downhill, based on theatrical sketches, intriduces themes and images, such as the shared guilt…

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Review of Hitchcock (2012)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 10 Nov 2012

Though uneven, there's much to like about this entertaining portrait of a working marriage and marriage work, including Helen Mirren's Oscar-caliber…

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Review of The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 10 Nov 2012

Though the story has been remade many times, Hitchcock's silent version (his third work) holds up well, bearing the director's distinctive…

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Review of Dementia 13 (1963)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 31 Oct 2012

There was no way to tell from the debut of Coppola, then 24, a low-budget horror flick produced by Roger Corman, that in a decade he would…

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Review of Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 29 Oct 2012

The filmmakers deserve credit for creating different worlds, each with distinctive look, but like most road films, the tale is overly episodic,…

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