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Review of Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 29 Oct 2008

When Kuenne picked up his camera and set out to make a love letter to a tragically lost friend, he had no idea what he would find…

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Review of Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 23 Oct 2008

A character study in the classic sense of the phrase, featuring a lead who will stick with you for days and weeks to come…

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Review of W. (2008)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 16 Oct 2008

Perhaps it's appropriate that a movie about a man who saw the world in black and white - the world was with him or against him - ended up with…

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Review of Max Payne (2008)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 16 Oct 2008

The producers of movies based on video games must think their audience is nothing but easy-to-entertain morons…

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Review of Rachel Getting Married (2008)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 09 Oct 2008

A return to form for Jonathan Demme, acting tour-de-force for Hathaway, and simply one of the best films of the year…

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Review of Body of Lies (2008)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 08 Oct 2008

Body of Lies is an expertly made, well-acted movie, and that makes it worth seeing, but it's not what it could have been…

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Review of Religulous (2008)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 02 Oct 2008

Maher's wandering eye keeps Religulous - a very good movie - from being the great movie it could have been…

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Review of Flash of Genius (2008)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 02 Oct 2008

It's as slow and lifeless a crowd pleaser as you'll see all year, a David-and-Goliath story that would have been a much stronger film if it…

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Review of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 02 Oct 2008

There's a little magic there in Cera and Dennings' excellent performances, continuing their upward trajectories in a romantic comedy that can…

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Review of Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 25 Sep 2008

Lee jumps back and forth between melodramatic speeches and unnecessary monologues so much that he loses all the emotional connection that he…

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Review of Eagle Eye (2008)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 25 Sep 2008

Unwilling to do anything in moderation, the four people it took to write one of the worst screenplays of the year almost seem to be playing…

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Review of Choke (1971)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 25 Sep 2008

Like a quickie in a bathroom or a Heimlich to the gut, Choke gets in, gets out, and gets the job done…

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Review of Choke (2008)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 25 Sep 2008

Like a quickie in a bathroom or a Heimlich to the gut, Choke gets in, gets out, and gets the job done…

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Review of Lakeview Terrace (2008)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 18 Sep 2008

A great trio of actors and a talented writer/director inject Lakeview Terrace with enough unexpected left turns to barely keep it worth recommending…

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Review of Burn After Reading (2008)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 11 Sep 2008

This isn't the Coens playing it safe following their Oscar win. Rather, Burn After Reading is a movie about idiots made by geniuses…

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Review of Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 04 Sep 2008

Bangkok Dangerous is so deadly dull that it's really not even worth writing or reading about, much less taking the time to see…

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Review of Death Race (2008)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 20 Aug 2008

If you're considering seeing Death Race this weekend, send me ten bucks and I'll personally come to your house and punch you in the face instead…

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Review of Death Race (1973)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 20 Aug 2008

If you're considering seeing Death Race this weekend, send me ten bucks and I'll personally come to your house and punch you in the face instead…

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Review of Henry Poole Is Here (2008)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 15 Aug 2008

Hope and faith, by their very nature, are issues that need to be handled with question marks…

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Review of Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 14 Aug 2008

One of the most enjoyable and best films of the year…

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