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Review of American Gangster (2007)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 03 Feb 2008

Scott's not interested in fireworks but small implosions of the soul and ego…

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Review of Good Night (2008)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 03 Feb 2008

Writer-director Jake Paltrow's (yes, brother of Gwennie) debut feature is exquisitely romantic, painful, and riotous; everyone's lonely and…

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Review of The Good Night (2007)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 03 Feb 2008

Writer-director Jake Paltrow's (yes, brother of Gwennie) debut feature is exquisitely romantic, painful, and riotous; everyone's lonely and…

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Review of Honeydripper (2007)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 29 Jan 2008

The only surprise in all this scripted sentiment is its apparent conclusion that maybe the blues deserve to be dead…

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Review of Cassandra's Dream (2007)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 29 Jan 2008

McGregor and Farrell deepen this slight thriller into a film that feels almost grandly philosophical, even though you know that when the lights…

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Review of Sex and Breakfast (2007)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 29 Jan 2008

The four restless young bedfellows talk lots and communicate little in trite and stagy digressions; even when they strip off their shirts,…

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Review of The Great Debaters (2007)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 29 Jan 2008

Despite its transparent manipulations, the film is more decent than it deserves to be, particularly when the kids step up to the podium and…

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Review of The Golden Compass (2007)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 29 Jan 2008

Lyra surpasses the timid drone of Pan's Labyrinth or the Pevensies' do-gooder sap, she's brave, smart, and the best liar in the universe…

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Review of The Savages (2007)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 29 Jan 2008

Jenkins' brushstrokes of her characters are too exacting to move us more than a lifelike painting of a basket of fruit…

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Review of Romance & Cigarettes (2005)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 29 Jan 2008

It shouldn't work, but there's something beautiful in Turturro's non-judgmental, almost affectionate, exposure of human love as the courting…

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Review of There Will Be Blood (2007)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 29 Jan 2008

The moments that linger long after you've left the theater and forgotten how damned tedious the whole thing was are with Paul Dano's smug,…

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Review of Atonement (1971)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 29 Jan 2008

Sweeping, showy, and stiff, Joe Wright's adaptation of Ian McEwan's pedigreed bestseller traffics in florid staging and callow emotions…

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Review of Teeth (2008)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 29 Jan 2008

Every time the scary music kicks in and another dumb male clutches his crotch, the theater bursts into uncertain giggles like a needed release…

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Review of Beowulf (2007)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 29 Jan 2008

Those who remember the 3000 line epic from 8th grade English will be pleasantly surprised to learn they've scrapped the original plot altogether…

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Review of Redacted (2007)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 29 Jan 2008

De Palma's made a shattering true crime feel phony…

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Review of War Dance (2007)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 29 Jan 2008

Because no one dares to call a film about suffering children boring, Fine and Nix slack on analysis and investigation and concentrate on gorgeous…

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Review of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 29 Jan 2008

Scissorhands was bright with eye-popping pastels that took on a sordid sheen; Sweeney has no such subtext: it's black, black, and gray, except…

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Review of Beowulf (1999)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 29 Jan 2008

Those who remember the 3000 line epic from 8th grade English will be pleasantly surprised to learn they've scrapped the original plot altogether…

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Review of Beowulf (1976)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 29 Jan 2008

Those who remember the 3000 line epic from 8th grade English will be pleasantly surprised to learn they've scrapped the original plot altogether…

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Review of Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 29 Jan 2008

It's all yodeling Shakira ballads and emotional shots of the would-be lovers staring at each other until their cheeks pale from exhaustion…

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