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Review of Cthulhu (2008)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 03 Mar 2009

Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth looms largest in this offbeat film's influences, and while it can't be called faithful…

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Review of The Wrestler (1971)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 02 Mar 2009

Mickey Rourke's mesmerizing, road-wreck performance as [a] washed-up wrestler ... is the only reason to sit through The Wrestler's cliches…

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Review of Australia (1989)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 02 Mar 2009

Recalls the old-fashioned, golden-age Hollywood movie-movies that wrapped forbidden desire, aching heartbreak, personal tragedy, war, adventure…

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Review of Frost/Nixon (2008)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 02 Mar 2009

Peter Morgan's play about the behind-the-scenes research, negotiation and fundraising that produced the Frost-Nixon interviews may not sound…

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Review of Doubt (2003)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 02 Mar 2009

The cast['s]... collective efforts go a long way to mitigating Shanley's pedestrian grasp of film language…

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Review of The Wrestler (2008)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 02 Mar 2009

Mickey Rourke's mesmerizing, road-wreck performance as [a] washed-up wrestler ... is the only reason to sit through The Wrestler's cliches…

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Review of Four Christmases (2008)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 02 Mar 2009

For all of its snarky holiday/family bashing, Four Christmases wimps out in the third act and reaffirms all the traditional values it affects to mock…

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Review of Australia (2008)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 02 Mar 2009

Recalls the old-fashioned, golden-age Hollywood movie-movies that wrapped forbidden desire, aching heartbreak, personal tragedy, war, adventure…

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Review of Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 02 Mar 2009

The ... all-too-convincing squalor and misery ... make the feel-good ending seem righteously earned…

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Review of Revolutionary Road (2008)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 02 Mar 2009

Chilly and academic, thoroughly admirable but one step removed from the very real angst of a movie like The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (1956)…

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Review of Last Chance Harvey (2008)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 02 Mar 2009

Without [Emma] Thompson's valiant efforts, Last Chance Harvey would be too dismal for cable; with them it's simply a trifle…

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Review of The Wrestler (1984)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 02 Mar 2009

Mickey Rourke's mesmerizing, road-wreck performance as [a] washed-up wrestler ... is the only reason to sit through The Wrestler's cliches…

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Review of Doubt (2008)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 02 Mar 2009

The cast['s]... collective efforts go a long way to mitigating Shanley's pedestrian grasp of film language…

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Review of Doubt (2009)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 02 Mar 2009

The cast['s]... collective efforts go a long way to mitigating Shanley's pedestrian grasp of film language…

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Review of Changeling (2008)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 02 Mar 2009

It's a strangely arid piece of filmmaking, handsome, respectful, unsensational and thoroughly lifeless…

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Review of Gran Torino (2008)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 02 Mar 2009

The kind of movie Don Siegel and Sam Fuller used to make, a blunt but perceptive slice of American discontent filtered through the prism of…

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Review of Coraline (2009)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 01 Mar 2009

Coraline is meant for children. But it's neither infantile nor condescending. It has a moral…

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Review of Chandni Chowk to China (2009)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 01 Mar 2009

An energetic, if uneven, movie masala whose ingredients include broad comedy, fists of fury, dark family secrets and musical numbers…

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Review of Taken (2008)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 01 Mar 2009

A bizarre mix of sentimentality and bone-cracking violence, this Hardcore/Not Without My Daughter hybrid pits a determined father against the…

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Review of [REC] (2007)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 01 Mar 2009

This short, stripped-down, first-person horror picture delivers some brutally effective shocks and gradually conjures a haunting atmosphere…

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