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Review of Prelude to a Kiss (1992)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 05 Aug 2008

As a reflexive meditation on the nature of love in the AIDS era, this erio-comedy is poignant but it still bears too much the theatrical sensibility…

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Review of Stealing America: Vote by Vote (2008)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 04 Aug 2008

The title is provocative and the timing is right for an examination of the elctorate process, but the data are tentative and anecdotal and…

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Review of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 03 Aug 2008

The communication mode in the story is no longer novel, but like the first film, the significance of the sequel is more sociological than artistic…

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Review of Hell Ride (2008)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 01 Aug 2008

Knowing that the violence alone was sufficiently ghastly to warrant R-Rating, helmer Larry Bishop had nothing to lose by adding a few more…

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Review of Sons & Lovers (2003)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 31 Jul 2008

An intelligent and restrained adaptation of D. H…

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Review of Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 31 Jul 2008

The midlife crisis of a bourgeois housewife is the center of this domestic melodrama, which flaunts the Oscar-nominated turns of Joanne Woodward…

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Review of Save the Tiger (1973)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 30 Jul 2008

Jack Lemmon won the 1973 Best Actor Oscar in John Avildsen's Arthur Miller-like sentimental melodrama, in which he plays a bitter down-on-his-luck…

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Review of Swing Shift (1984)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 30 Jul 2008

Despite compromises, a result of interference in director Demme's work, this fictional look at a Rosie the Riveter kind of woman displays a…

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Review of Quo Vadis (1951)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 29 Jul 2008

By today's standards, Mervyn LeRoy's film is a kitschy spectacle, but in 1951, it was immensely popular and MGM spent its biggest budget to…

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Review of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 28 Jul 2008

Fraser, one of the few actors who can play adventures, deserves better than this mishmash in which there are no ground rules and anything goes…

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Review of Pineapple Express (2008)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 28 Jul 2008

Adding another funny panel to his work, Apatow's wild blend of comedy, action (and dope) has other merits, showing that indie helmer Green…

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Review of Hope and Glory (1987)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 27 Jul 2008

The Blitz as a comedy: Director John Boorman offers a warmly nostalgic view of his childhood in a London suburb during WWII…

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Review of The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 25 Jul 2008

Michael Curtiz's adventure, one of the most enjoyable swashbuckling epics made, flaunting star Errol Flynn at his very best, deservedly won…

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Review of Love Field (1992)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 21 Jul 2008

This is yet another melodrama haunted by the Kennedy assassination, and it's worth seeing only for Michelle Pfeiffer's performance as the obsessed…

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Review of Il Divo (2008)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 21 Jul 2008

Witty, playful, poignant, and boasting a charismatic turn from Servillo, Sorrentino's chronicle of notorious Italian politico Andreotti is…

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Review of The Night of the Iguana (1964)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 20 Jul 2008

Though uneven and not as powerful as other Williams-based films, Huston's version benefits from a high-profile cast, headed by Burton, Deborah…

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Review of Step Brothers (2008)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 17 Jul 2008

McKay keeps his comedy from straying too far into Adam Sandler turf by limiting the overt sentimentality and not letting the melodrama overwhelm…

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Review of The Safety of Objects (2002)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 16 Jul 2008

Though well-acted, Troche's third film, an adaptation of short stories, is a minor addition of a fractured, ensemble narrative to the overly…

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Review of Mamma Mia! (2008)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 14 Jul 2008

Helmer's lack of vision and technical skills and the use of conventional format result in a schmaltzy, mildly enjoyable musical that services…

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Review of The Wings of Eagles (1957)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 14 Jul 2008

Though sentimental as a biopic of Navy hero Frank (Sig) Wead, John Ford's film has old-fashioned charm, a result of John Wayne's lead performance…

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