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Review of Heist (2001)

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

This is a world not unlike superhero comics, only in this world the heroes have the superhuman ability to knock down buildings with a split-second…

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Review of Chicken Run (2000)

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

It's a wonder to know that each frame of this film was handmade, not orchestrated by a computer…

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Review of Signs (2002)

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

I come away from Signs exhilarated by Shyamalan's skill at keeping his audience guessing…

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Review of Levity (2003)

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

a bit heavy on talk and light on action, the film grapples with tough issues at the soul-level, instead of selling us feel-good lies or cynicism…

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Review of Possession (2002)

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

We are led to smile nostalgically about this extramarital affair, not to contemplate the cost of unfaithfulness…

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Review of Monsters, Inc. (2001)

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

It's like a package of your favorite snacks that you open to discover is only half full…

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Review of O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

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

Watching Clooney, Turturro, and Nelson ham it up singing 'Man of Constant Sorrow' is one of this year's greatest big-screen delights…

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Review of Possession (1981)

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

We are led to smile nostalgically about this extramarital affair, not to contemplate the cost of unfaithfulness…

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Review of Spy Game (2001)

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

afterwards I realized that I had been maneuvered into rooting for a dangerously reckless and presumptuous man…

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Review of Armageddon (1989)

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

A Godzilla-sized blockbuster -- it's an outrageous spectacle, without many brains to speak of, but its heart in the right place…

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Review of Amistad (1997)

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

This is the most straightforward, understated, and powerful big-screen representation of the gospel in recent movie history…

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Review of Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

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

seems to be the latest chapter in a great work on the artist's search for meaning, for self-worth, for redemption…

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Review of Sexy Beast (2001)

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

Most crime stories, from Cain and Abel to Macbeth to Bonnie and Clyde to Pulp Fiction, show us that crime doesn't pay…

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Review of A Mighty Wind (2003)

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

Where Guffman and Best found hilarious comedy in collisions of fractured personalities, Mighty Wind boasts only a few moments of inspired chaos…

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Review of Bowfinger (1999)

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

This all has the potential to become a sidesplitting caper. ... Unfortunately, only a few of the manic scenes work…

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Review of A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

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

The demands of the story would have been better served by Kubrick…

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Review of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

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

If only it could have resisted revelry in its own style and violence, it might have been one 1999's best films, due to its performances and…

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Review of Possession (2013)

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

We are led to smile nostalgically about this extramarital affair, not to contemplate the cost of unfaithfulness…

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Review of 28 Days Later (2002)

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

It's scary because, while we may never be stalked by slimy zombies, we're coming to know what it is like to live in the midst of an angry,…

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Review of Sleepy Hollow (1999)

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

Sleepy Hollow is, above all, beautiful to look at. Instead of using effects to make things look real, Burton makes everything look like a painting…

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