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Review of The Ice Storm (1997)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 15 Jan 2005

It's concerned with the differences between the culture we profess and the lifestyles we actually indulge…

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Review of Bowling for Columbine (2002)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 15 Jan 2005

Even if his information is, oh, even 40% false... the ideas he is presenting need to be heard, examined, and reckoned with…

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Review of In the Name of the Father (1993)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 15 Jan 2005

Daniel Day-Lewis gives one of his greatest performances, disappearing into the character the way he did in My Left Foot and A Room With a View…

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Review of The Insider (1999)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 15 Jan 2005

This is a war movie. The big strikes are lawsuits. The battlefield is the conscience…

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Review of Toy Story 2 (1999)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 15 Jan 2005

One of the most entertaining and exciting animated features ever made, one of those rare sequels that bests its predecessor…

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Review of In Good Company (2004)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 12 Jan 2005

In the era of Enron, Martha Stewart, and other corporate scandals, here's a movie that knows Good Business involves Good Ethics…

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Review of In Good Company (2008)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 12 Jan 2005

In the era of Enron, Martha Stewart, and other corporate scandals, here's a movie that knows Good Business involves Good Ethics…

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Review of In Good Company (2000)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 12 Jan 2005

In the era of Enron, Martha Stewart, and other corporate scandals, here's a movie that knows Good Business involves Good Ethics…

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Review of Primer (2004)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 31 Dec 2004

If you've seen Memento, you've some idea of the ingenuity on display here. For $7,000 dollars, could you make a better big screen film…

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Review of Spider-Man 2 (2004)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 31 Dec 2004

[It's sure to] join the upper echelons of action movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back, and Die Hard…

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Review of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 31 Dec 2004

Conran is ... in touch with his inner 10-year-old. His feature-length debut seems like it has been downloaded directly from a kid's wildest dreams…

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Review of The Village (2004)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 31 Dec 2004

a Sleepy Hollow-like folk tale that is light on character development and heavy on symbolism and suggestion…

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Review of Judas (2004)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 31 Dec 2004

A completely unconvincing Jesus, who looks more like a surfer dude than the Messiah, and a frustratingly uninteresting version of the Gospel…

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Review of Miracle (2004)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 31 Dec 2004

[It takes] a wonderful story and transforms it into by-the-numbers entertainment that doesn't show us anything new about hockey or this historic…

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Review of The Aviator (2004)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 31 Dec 2004

Blanchett gives such gusto to her turn as Katherine Hepburn that when she walks off the screen, the [other characters] look likely to follow…

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Review of Ray (2003)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 23 Dec 2004

In spite of Foxx's impressive work, we barely scratch the surface of Ray Charles' interior life…

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Review of Rai (1995)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 23 Dec 2004

In spite of Foxx's impressive work, we barely scratch the surface of Ray Charles' interior life…

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Review of Ray (2004)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 23 Dec 2004

In spite of Foxx's impressive work, we barely scratch the surface of Ray Charles' interior life…

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Review of The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 19 Dec 2004

Damon makes Bourne a consistent, driven, intelligent, and yet vulnerable hero…

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Review of The Matrix (1999)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

A wild ride, and worth the ticket price if only for the first-rate special effects…

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