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Review of Miral (2010)

By Jon Frosch (191) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 24 Mar 2011

Julian Schnabel's stylistic effects can't save this plodding, earnest historical epic that chronicles 50 years of Palestinian struggle through…

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Review of Sucker Punch (2011)

By Ethan Alter (997) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 24 Mar 2011

Long on eye-catching images but lacking much in the way of plot, characterizations or a sense of humor, Sucker Punch initially intrigues only…

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Review of Cracks (2009)

By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 18 Mar 2011

Lame period film set in a remote girls' boarding school never takes off…

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Review of Cracks (2007)

By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 18 Mar 2011

Lame period film set in a remote girls' boarding school never takes off…

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Review of The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman (2011)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 18 Mar 2011

This coarse, complicated period comedy is unlikely to catch on with mainstream U.S…

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Review of The Music Never Stopped (2011)

By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 18 Mar 2011

Awash in sentiment and Grateful Dead music, this sap-fest may delight the susceptible, after a few visits to Bongland…

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Review of Bill Cunningham New York (2011)

By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 17 Mar 2011

Mere fashionistas pale alongside the tenacious commitment of the utterly obsessed subject of this diverting documentary-one of New York's great…

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Review of Limitless (2011)

By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 17 Mar 2011

Gripping thriller about the heady and nightmarish journey of a struggling writer who becomes a kind of tortured über-mensch after he takes…

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Review of Red Riding Hood (2011)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 11 Mar 2011

Though it's directed by Twilight's Catherine Hardwicke, its target teen audience is likely to find the period trappings and timid bloodletting…

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Review of Elektra Luxx (2011)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 11 Mar 2011

Carla Gugino and Joseph Gordon-Levitt perform superhuman work trying to keep this mess together, but can only do so much when faced with such…

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Review of Making the Boys (2011)

By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 11 Mar 2011

Scrupulously researched, highly absorbing and worthwhile documentary about, like it or not, the seminal gay play…

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Review of Jane Eyre (2011)

By Erica Abeel (109) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 11 Mar 2011

Lovers of Charlotte Bronte's classic will luxuriate in the spooky Gothic atmosphere, but the film's pallid Jane fails to nail a character who…

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Review of Battle: Los Angeles (2011)

By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 11 Mar 2011

Aliens attack Los Angeles, and as the title says, it's a battle. Tough, blunt sci-fi flick may not be original, but it delivers the goods…

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Review of Bereavement (2010)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 04 Mar 2011

In this deliberately paced horror movie, a big-city teen homes in on the darkness at the edge of a small Pennsylvania town, with grim results…

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Review of I Saw the Devil (2010)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 04 Mar 2011

I Saw the Devil is by its nature a polarizing film, but one that makes no bones (if you will) about what it is, fully embracing its horrifying nature…

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Review of Take Me Home Tonight (2011)

By Ethan Alter (997) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 04 Mar 2011

A strong ensemble-with one notable exception-is the main attraction of this otherwise slight and unmemorable period comedy…

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Review of Beastly (2011)

By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 04 Mar 2011

An adequate updating of the Beauty and the Beast tale for a sliver of young film fans…

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Review of Happythankyoumoreplease (2011)

By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 04 Mar 2011

Josh Radnor populates his irritatingly self-satisfied film with lonely romantics, as well as a wealth of clichés and abysmal aesthetic choices…

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Review of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)

By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 04 Mar 2011

Cannes Palme d'Or-winning film takes patience to sit through but eventually rewards with its unstressed beauties and affectingly deadpan surprise…

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Review of In a Better World (2010)

By Erica Abeel (109) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 01 Mar 2011

it's refreshing to encounter a deeply involving film unafraid of raw, visceral emotion, a film that for once thinks almost too big…

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