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Review of Anna Christie (1930)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 20 Mar 2009

Garbo received her first Oscar nomination for this second version of the play, which MGM advertised as Garbo Talks…

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Review of Anna Christie (1930)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 20 Mar 2009

Garbo received her first Oscar nomination for this second version of the play, which MGM advertised as Garbo Talks…

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Review of Knowing (2009)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 19 Mar 2009

Too bad that the gifted Proyas (Crow, Dark City) doesn't work more often, and when he does, he contributes to a hodgepodge narrative, which…

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Review of Lenny (1974)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 19 Mar 2009

As helmed by Fosse and interpreted by Dustin Hoffman, Lenny is too fragmented and episodic to illuminate the controversial comedian but it's…

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Review of The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 18 Mar 2009

One of the most exciting action-adventures of the 1930s (perhaps of all time), catapulting Gary Cooper to major stardom…

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Review of Doctor Dolittle (1967)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 15 Mar 2009

One of the worst films to be ever nominated for the Best Picture Oscar and one of the weakest Hollywood musicals of the 1960s…

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Review of Airplane! (1980)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 15 Mar 2009

Entering imto Mel Brooks' turf, the first lampoon of the disaster-in-the-air subgenre (such as the prepoterously Oscar nominated Airport) is…

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Review of Race to Witch Mountain (2009)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 13 Mar 2009

Those who are nostalgic for the 1970s films may be disappointed, but the new version, a hybrid of remake and reimagining, is innocuous crowd-pleasing…

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Review of Adventureland (2009)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 12 Mar 2009

Jesse Eisenberg's heartfelt performance is the main reason to see this ultra-familiar youth tale of first love, in which most of the characters…

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Review of Moscow, Belgium (2008)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 11 Mar 2009

Not many Belgian films are made, let alone seen in the U.S., so this fresh and quirky feature debut (which world-premiered in 2008 Cannes Fest),…

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Review of I Love You, Man (2009)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 11 Mar 2009

Hamburg's serio comedy is a leap forward compared with his former banal work, but dealing with male camaraderie, it suffers from lack of chemistry…

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Review of Explicit Ills (2008)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 09 Mar 2009

Webber is good with his actors, but he tries to do too much, depict a portrait of the lower-depths in Philadelphia, present a cautionary tale…

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Review of Sunshine Cleaning (2008)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 09 Mar 2009

Inevitable comparisons will be made with the superior Little Miss Sunshine (Alan Bates stars in both)…

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Review of Sounder (2003)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 05 Mar 2009

Honest and touching, Martin Ritt's Oscar-nominated Sounder, a Depression-era saga, does proud the American family and the American family movie genre…

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Review of Sounder (1972)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 05 Mar 2009

Honest and touching, Martin Ritt's Oscar-nominated Sounder, a Depression-era saga, does proud the American family and the American family movie genre…

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Review of The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 04 Mar 2009

This fictionlized tale of the great French scientist belongs to a cycle of Warner biopics of great men, many of whom were played by Paul Muni,…

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Review of Three Monkeys (2008)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 03 Mar 2009

A change of pace for the Turkish auteur, this noirish crime family melodrama is more plot-driven than his previous efforts, but the personal…

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Review of The Great Buck Howard (2008)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 24 Feb 2009

John Malkovich's eccentric performance elevates this showbiz comedy about a delusional has-been way above its routine text…

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Review of The African Queen (1952)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 19 Feb 2009

Huston's romantic adventure, one of the most admired movies in American history, contains iconic performances by Bogart, in his only Oscar-winning…

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Review of Crossing Over (2009)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 18 Feb 2009

Though timely and well-intentioned, this immigrants saga is too contrived and schematic to generate credibility or feeling for the characters…

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