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Review of Ulzana's Raid (1972)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 11 Apr 2008

One of Aldrich's finest films, this underestimated Western presents a bleak yet intelligent portrait of the racial warfare of the white men…

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Review of The Life Before Her Eyes (2007)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 10 Apr 2008

A melodramatic portrait of violence and mourning, Vadim Perelman's disappointing follow-up to House of Sand and Fog turns Laura Kasischke's…

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Review of Deception (1946)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 10 Apr 2008

While not one of Davis vantage melodramas, it's worth seeing this preposterously plotted romance with Davis as a music teacher, torn between…

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Review of Tycoon (2002)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 24 Mar 2008

This romantic adventure with John Wayne (as engineer for a change), made a year before he became a major star, suffers from Wallace's routine…

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Review of Smart People (2008)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 24 Mar 2008

It's always a problem when the secondary characters are more interesting and colorful than the leads, and when they are played by such splendid…

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Review of Tycoon (1947)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 24 Mar 2008

This romantic adventure with John Wayne (as engineer for a change), made a year before he became a major star, suffers from Wallace's routine…

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Review of A River Runs Through It (1992)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 24 Mar 2008

There is too much taste, discretion and detachment in Redford's rendition of MacLean's sprawling family saga, but the scenery and Brad Pitt…

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Review of Chapter 27 (2007)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 23 Mar 2008

A failed attempt to probe dramatically the inner workings of the troubled mind of John Lennon's assassin in a chronicle replete with shallow…

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Review of Ryan's Daughter (1970)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 22 Mar 2008

Arguably David Lean's weakest film, this lushly photographed (it won Oscar for Freddie Young) period Irish romance is rambling and pointless,…

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Review of Top Hat (1935)

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

The fourth pairing of Astaire-Rogers is one of their best and RKO top grosser of the year…

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Review of Dead Poets Society (1989)

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

Though sentimental and contrived, this valentine to charismatic, dedicated teachers is extremely well acted (even by Robin Williams) and it…

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Review of Swimming with Sharks (1994)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 18 Mar 2008

Despite some sharp dialogue, this is a nasty, derivative film, sort of a cross between Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Altman's The Player…

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Review of Dark Matter (2008)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 18 Mar 2008

There are so few films about higher education (and fewer intelligent ones) that it's a shame that what begins as a poignant probe of academic…

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Review of Inherit the Wind (1960)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 18 Mar 2008

Director Stanley Kramer can't overcome the trepidations of a verbose courtroom drama, so he lets his two actors, Spencer Tracy and Fredric…

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Review of The Country Girl (1954)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 18 Mar 2008

Based on Odets' play, Seaton's version is an odd, overrated melodrama about co-dependency in alcoholic marriages, with decent turns by Bing…

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Review of Doomsday (1938)

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

The protag of this pastiche is modeled on Jovovich in Resident Evil, and one way to pass the time is to count the numerous actioners from which…

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Review of Doomsday (2008)

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

The protag of this pastiche is modeled on Jovovich in Resident Evil, and one way to pass the time is to count the numerous actioners from which…

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Review of The Razor's Edge (1946)

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

Edmund Goulding's version deserves crdit for trying to adapt Maugham's difficult existential movel, but Tyrone Power is miscast and the film…

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Review of Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 13 Mar 2008

Adding fresh talent to his growing empire, Apathow, Hollywood's King of Comedy, has produced a charming film that uses the basic ingredients…

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Review of Little Odessa (1994)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 13 Mar 2008

This dark, brooding family melodrama, set against the context of Brooklyn's Russian-Jewish mob, is well acted by Tim Roth, Maximillian Schell,…

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