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Review of The Orphanage (2007)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 28 Dec 2007

A series of serviceable creep-outs and jolts...the pretzel-shaped resolution feels like too little too late…

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Review of P.S. I Love You (2007)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 21 Dec 2007

Butler, though puportedly attractive, gives a chipmunk-chipper performance that can only be described as supremely annoying…

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Review of Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 21 Dec 2007

A Bizarro-world Frank Capra picture...Though the story deserves more weight...still a pleasing, unusually smart, consistently witty mass…

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Review of National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 20 Dec 2007

The cinematic equivalent of the guy who runs up to a cop, grabs the cop's hat, throws it to the ground and takes a s-it on it…

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Review of The Golden Compass (2007)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 07 Dec 2007

Posh fantasy...the film's dazzling imagery and serviceable story hustle along agreeably, if a bit dourly…

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Review of Atonement (1971)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 07 Dec 2007

In the story's nooks and crannies are ideas to savor...the human-condition horrors of unpassable distances of space, time, and reconciliation…

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Review of Atonement (2007)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 07 Dec 2007

In the story's nooks and crannies are ideas to savor...the human-condition horrors of unpassable distances of space, time, and reconciliation…

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Review of Holly (2006)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 25 Nov 2007

Moshe and co-screenwriter Guy Jacobson use their white protagonist not cynically to exploit white guilt, but to excavate it and examine its…

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Review of Eastern Promises (2007)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 13 Sep 2007

Eastern Promises' unusually ambiguous character study makes for a different kind of crime drama, a striking if not entirely satisfying one…

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Review of In the Valley of Elah (2007)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 13 Sep 2007

In and of itself, the story offers rich dramatic material that Haggis exploits well, but the writer-director's unsubtle condescension to his…

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Review of 3:10 to Yuma (1957)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 01 Sep 2007

Two gripping hours so richly realized you won't want them to end…

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Review of 3:10 to Yuma (2007)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 01 Sep 2007

Two gripping hours so richly realized you won't want them to end…

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Review of Rocket Science (2007)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 15 Aug 2007

Comes tantalizingly close to the genius of Hal Ashby's unforced, sympathetic humanism…

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Review of The Invasion (2007)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 15 Aug 2007

Kidman's psychiatrist is the biggest dolt--err, bolt--in a machine that turns out nothing but phoniness…

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Review of The Dark Crystal (1982)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 13 Aug 2007

An extraordinary, often mesmerizing achievement of design and performance that's held back by an underdeveloped script and a milquetoast leading…

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Review of Stardust (2007)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 09 Aug 2007

It's been quite some time since a fantasy adventure this cheekily entertaining has made its way down the pipeline…

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Review of Stardust (2010)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 09 Aug 2007

It's been quite some time since a fantasy adventure this cheekily entertaining has made its way down the pipeline…

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Review of This Is England (2007)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 09 Aug 2007

Meadows' recollections of his own youth...lend a terrible immediacy to an unusually potent coming-of-age story…

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Review of Stardust (1922)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 09 Aug 2007

It's been quite some time since a fantasy adventure this cheekily entertaining has made its way down the pipeline…

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Review of This Is England (1941)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 09 Aug 2007

Meadows' recollections of his own youth...lend a terrible immediacy to an unusually potent coming-of-age story…

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