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Review of Eastern Promises (2007)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 16 Nov 2007

Though not as subtle, complex, or personal as History of Violence, Cronenberg's new film is a grim, taut, well-crafted crimer about the Russian…

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Review of Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 15 Nov 2007

Arguably Bodrov's biggest, most accomplished film, Mongol is everything that Oliver Stone's Alexander was not: sumputuously mounted, beautifully…

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Review of August Rush (2007)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 15 Nov 2007

Following in the footsteps of her father Jim Sheridan (In America), helmer Kirsten has concocted a contrived, sentimental urban fantasy--a…

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Review of The Mist (2007)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 13 Nov 2007

A horror flick that suffers from stock characters and mediocre special effects, but still dleivers the basic goods…

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Review of Margot at the Wedding (2007)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 12 Nov 2007

Though well acted by Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh, this overly fractured tale--more like Scenes from Sisters Rivalry--represents…

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Review of The Divorce of Lady X (1938)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 10 Nov 2007

Though opulent in color costumes and design, this minor British screwball comedy is mostly known for its on-screen teaming of two young actors,…

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Review of Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 07 Nov 2007

Mike Newell's version of Gabriel Garcia Marquez highly acclaimed erotic novel is one of his worst films: listless, poorly mounted, badly scripted…

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Review of Educating Rita (1983)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 06 Nov 2007

Inspired by Pygmalion and other works about mentor-pupil troubled/rewarding interaction, Lewis Gilbert's film is too theatrical, betraying…

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Review of The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 05 Nov 2007

Though well-crafted, this potboiler is a second-tier film noir, mostly known for featuring Kirk Douglas screen debut, as Stanwyck's weakling…

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Review of The Princess Bride (1987)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 05 Nov 2007

One of Reiner's most entertaining films, effective as a swashbuckling epic, romantic fable, and satire of these genres…

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Review of Rio Lobo (1970)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 04 Nov 2007

Hawks last Western is his weakest collaboration with Wayne, but the film offers an occasion to see the aging Duke trying to rise above the…

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Review of Beaufort (2007)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 03 Nov 2007

Cedar's powerfully detailed war film centers on Israel's evacuation of the Southern Lebanese fortress, but it also deals with broader issues,…

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Review of Big Jake (1971)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 02 Nov 2007

A second rate Western, more interesting for its biographical elements, the film co-stars Wayne's own son as well as sons of Robert Mitchum…

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Review of I'm Not There (2007)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 31 Oct 2007

Richly textured, with allusions to Fellini and Godard, this discursive meditation on the complex and enigmatic Dylan (and the impossibility…

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Review of Darfur Now (2007)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 31 Oct 2007

Despite honorable intent, docu is too ambitious for its own good, too burdened with celebs, and not insightful enough about its signficant issues…

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Review of Martian Child (2007)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 30 Oct 2007

Harmless and schmaltzy, this dramedy about the bond between a lonely widower and a misfit son draws on a semi-autobiographical novel about…

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Review of Under the Volcano (1984)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 29 Oct 2007

John Huston's version of Malcolm Lowry's dense, poetic unfilmable book is ambitious but only semi-effective in conveying this cult novel's…

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Review of Hard Eight (1997)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 25 Oct 2007

This minor Vegas-set drama, about a loser and his older mentor, shows the features that will mark Anderson's better films: love for his characters,…

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Review of Juno (2007)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 24 Oct 2007

This poignant serio comedy about teenage pregnancy benefits from Diablo's clever script, which knows the unique quirks and lingo, fables and…

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Review of Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 21 Oct 2007

Centering on the camaraderie in prison between gay window-dresser and Marxist radical, the film is schematic, and the recreations of old movie…

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