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Review of Give Me Your Hand (2008)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 13 Oct 2009

It's almost hard to see the movie inside all the recycled beats and diaphanous construction, much less to feel its pulse…

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Review of Mary and Max (2009)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 11 Oct 2009

I'd be a sucker for most movies where a strategic slick of rooster s*** plays a decisive role in enabling an emotional communion, or where…

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Review of Partners (2009)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 10 Oct 2009

Partners has its fingers confidently on the pulse of what is heedlessly passionate and what is utterly desultory about late adolescence and…

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Review of My Neighbor, My Killer (2009)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 09 Oct 2009

Few documentaries are quite as rigorous and artful in exposing the complex stakes behind pointing a camera and a microphone at scenes of profound…

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Review of Paranormal Activity (2007)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 04 Oct 2009

Paranormal Activity has the universally craved but preciously rare knack among modern horror movies of seeping into the skin and the cerebellum…

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Review of Georgia (1995)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 29 Aug 2009

Might be my favorite example of a movie that compels you toward binaristic assumptions but keeps outwitting them, with its immersed conviction…

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Review of Two Family House (2000)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 21 Jul 2009

Unfortunately, the look, pace, and structure of the film stop feeling elegantly restrained and pass into something like boilerplate mediocrity…

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Review of Mission to Mars (2000)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 13 Jul 2009

Whatever's shoddy or limp about Mission to Mars, however conspicuous while the film unfolds, all becomes admirably pale as the full viewing…

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Review of Wonder Boys (2000)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 30 Jun 2009

If Douglas and Hanson have aimed to make Grady as simultaneously weary and jazzed...as Bob Dylan's Oscar-winning theme song is, they have come…

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Review of Adoration (2009)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 29 Jun 2009

No one else would have made a film about these people, exploring these ideas and taking these kinds of mysterious risks…

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Review of Adoration ou la transsubstantiation (1987)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 29 Jun 2009

No one else would have made a film about these people, exploring these ideas and taking these kinds of mysterious risks…

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Review of Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 13 Mar 2009

Mr…

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Review of The Wolf Man (1941)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 10 Mar 2009

The Wolf Man's tantamount pleasures are its economy and speed, its silvery manipulations of light and shadow, and the panache with which the…

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Review of Changeling (2008)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 12 Nov 2008

Writer J. Michael Straczynski and director Clint Eastwood keep abducting their own movie and flagrantly replacing it with a different one…

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Review of Quantum of Solace (2008)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 28 Oct 2008

Lively with color but dotted with chic black-on-white motifs, splashed with escapist enticements without losing its grip on James's curdled…

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Review of Two Lovers (2008)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 21 Oct 2008

An early suicide attempt, complete with potent sound design, confers a life-and-death gravity on the picture that its story about a faltering…

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Review of Two Lovers (1928)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 21 Oct 2008

An early suicide attempt, complete with potent sound design, confers a life-and-death gravity on the picture that its story about a faltering…

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Review of Ballast (2008)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 21 Oct 2008

A doleful movie that often has a lump in its throat, but it's also a poetic and illuminating movie that earns its attitudes and effects, including…

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Review of Tropic Thunder (2008)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 14 Sep 2008

Tropic Thunder, full of punchlines about Milli Vanilli and Being There, stitches the tired cultural references of one generation to the utterly…

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Review of Mamma Mia! (2008)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 14 Sep 2008

A chintzy valentine to the world-shaking ebullience of one's own flimsily empowered friendships and one's most offhanded and tarted-up whims…

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