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Review of King of California (2007)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 20 Aug 2007

As an adventure-obsessed father released from asylum, Michael Douglas renders a wonderfullly eccentric and manic performance in a feature that…

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Review of Eight Days a Week (1997)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 19 Aug 2007

A highlight of 1997 Slamdance Film Fest, this raunchy romantic comedy has a nice premise--a Romeo who won't take no as an answer--but no narrative…

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Review of The Nanny Diaries (2007)

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

Deviating from the book, which is darker, offbeat and critical, the film is compromised, never quite finding the right tone in satirizing its…

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Review of Microcosmos (1996)

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

Both informative and entertaining, French docu doesn't presume any previous knowledge of or interest in the subject, finding the right tone…

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Review of The 11th Hour (2007)

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

Timely docu lacks the cache of Al Gore and the visual style of Inconvenient Truth, but thematically, it covers a wider range of socio-ecological…

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Review of Marlene (1984)

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

Schell uses the limiting conditions-Dietrich did't let him photograph her-to an advantage, resulting in a revelatory work that's more interesting…

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Review of The Invasion (2007)

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

The fourth version of the classic sci-fi novel, previously filmed by Siegel in 1956, Kaufman in 1978, and Ferrara in 1994, is the weakest and…

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Review of Stardust (2010)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 09 Aug 2007

While Vaughn's goals to be faithful to Caiman's literary source and also ground the fable in reality are honorable, the execution is uneven,…

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Review of Stardust (1922)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 09 Aug 2007

While Vaughn's goals to be faithful to Caiman's literary source and also ground the fable in reality are honorable, the execution is uneven,…

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Review of Stardust (2007)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 09 Aug 2007

While Vaughn's goals to be faithful to Caiman's literary source and also ground the fable in reality are honorable, the execution is uneven,…

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Review of Angels and Insects (1995)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 08 Aug 2007

A notch above the dry, analystic and tedious films that Philip Haas usually makes, largely due to acting of Kristin Scott Thomas and explicit…

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Review of The Inkwell (1994)

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

Messy and tawdry, this ambitious film proved to be Matty Rich's sophomore jinx…

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Review of Raising Helen (2004)

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

Yet another social fable about women in distress from Gary Marshall with no foundation in any reality and a mannered, irritating performance…

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Review of Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)

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

Truly independent in mode and spirit, this offebat comedy deserves credit for its original vision of an after-life that's not all that different…

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Review of Rush Hour 3 (2007)

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

Desperate to revitalize the thematically stagnant but still commercially viable franchise, the filmmakers have added to the cast serio actors…

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Review of 2 Days in Paris (2007)

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

Though very much in the vein of Woody Allen 70s comedies and showing influence of mentor Richard Linklater, this personal walking-and-talking…

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Review of The Human Stain (2003)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 01 Aug 2007

Both Nicole Kidman and Anthony Hopkins are vastly miscast in Robert Benton's poor adaptation of Philip Roth's poignant novel, one of the few…

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Review of Seven Samurai (1954)

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

Arguably the most influential epic ever made, Kurosawa's 1954 film is a veritable textbook on how to shoot, cut, frame and present violence…

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Review of Zorba the Greek (1964)

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

Despite Cacoyannis' plodding helming, and schematic contrast between the inhibited Brit and lusty Greek, the film is enjoyable due to Anthony…

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Review of Beyond the Clouds (1995)

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

Though not vintage Antonioni, this later work (supervised by Wim Wenders), a meditation on eros, love, and desire, features some of the most…

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