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Review of Thelma & Louise (1991)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 21 Feb 2011

Say what you will about Thelma & Louise (many have), but there's no doubt that it was a zeitgeist picture with a potent cultural impact. [Blu-ray]…

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Review of The Double Life of Véronique (1991)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 21 Feb 2011

A film that washes over the viewer and invites meditative contemplation about our awareness while swimming the big river of consciousness. [Blu-ray]…

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Review of You Again (2010)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 21 Feb 2011

Like staring at whorehouse wallpaper: it's sort of interesting, but you have a strong feeling you might be wasting your time. [Blu-ray]…

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Review of Cedar Rapids (2011)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 18 Feb 2011

Detailed and consistently funny observation of small-town sincerity muddling through a dog-eat-dog world…

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Review of The Illusionist (1901)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 11 Feb 2011

Tati's masterful mime easily inspires an animated treatment, recapturing his graceful comic body language and 'no subtitles required' international…

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Review of The Illusionist (2010)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 11 Feb 2011

Tati's masterful mime easily inspires an animated treatment, recapturing his graceful comic body language and 'no subtitles required' international…

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Review of 10 (1979)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 11 Feb 2011

10's tossed-off quality keeps it from greatness, but it also distinguishes it from the great mass of contemporary comedies smoothed to a shiny,…

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Review of Just Go with It (2011)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 11 Feb 2011

Adam Sandler movies are for everyone! Unless you're ugly, uncool, old, fat, gay, non-white or, heaven help you, all of the above…

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Review of Alice in Wonderland (1951)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 11 Feb 2011

I'm not sure there's anyone alive that believes the 1951 film lives up to Lewis Carroll's deathless 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,…

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Review of The Illusionist (2009)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 11 Feb 2011

Tati's masterful mime easily inspires an animated treatment, recapturing his graceful comic body language and 'no subtitles required' international…

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Review of Red Hill (2010)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 31 Jan 2011

Hughes shows chops in setting a mood and carrying out the grisly business of shotgun showdowns and torturous mano a mano sessions...[Blu-ray]…

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Review of Broadcast News (1987)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 17 Jan 2011

By looking at the small-screen picture...[Brooks] provocatively suggests that America's socio-political problems are pretty much the same as…

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Review of Biutiful (2010)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 14 Jan 2011

Biutiful doesn’t seem to have much to say about all this sadness, except that death, like love, makes us want to be better people…

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Review of Blue Valentine (2010)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 07 Jan 2011

A postmodern tragedy of two people at odds who are both right and both wrong in their argument, sharing responsibility for the birth and death…

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Review of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 31 Dec 2010

Though the carpe diem theme comes as something of a surprise, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps makes its political points, with 'moral hazard'—the…

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Review of Rush Hour (1998)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 29 Dec 2010

Chan...can make something out of nothing, while Ratner's chief skills seem to be talking himself into the director's chair and hiring the right…

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Review of Rush Hour (1941)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 29 Dec 2010

Chan...can make something out of nothing, while Ratner's chief skills seem to be talking himself into the director's chair and hiring the right…

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Review of Somewhere (2010)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 26 Dec 2010

Somewhere feels like it’s made by the grandchild of Antonioni (and, in an artistic sense, perhaps it is)…

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Review of Rabbit Hole (2010)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 26 Dec 2010

The film’s impeccable emotional truth and delicate touches of black humor owe in equal part to screenwriter, director and stars…

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Review of Restrepo (2010)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 26 Dec 2010

Despite being a moving reminder to support our troops, Restrepo cannot help but be Exhibit A in the case against the unwinnable War on Terror…

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