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Review of Milk (1998)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 26 Nov 2008

What sets this film entertainingly apart from most civil-rights sagas, though, are a slew of relaxed, offhandedly persuasive performances,…

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Review of Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 04 Nov 2008

Even in a film that clocks in at a quasi-epic 2 hours and 40 minutes, that's just too much narrative…

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Review of Hairspray (2007)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 17 Oct 2008

For a star-studded big-budget musical, Hairspray does a nice job of retaining the funky sweetness of the original…

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Review of Ratatouille (2007)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 17 Oct 2008

Kids are gonna gobble Ratatouille up; adults will relish its wit, and everyone will want to go out to eat after…

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Review of Breakfast with Scot (2007)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 09 Oct 2008

It would be churlish to parse the logic of the underlying situation too closely when all the filmmakers are really after is a heartwarming…

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

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 02 Oct 2008

Though these two really grow on you, what's almost more remarkable than Nick, Norah or their playlist (which may not be infinite, but really…

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Review of Down in the Delta (1998)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 19 Dec 1999

A fine family drama...Though the film is marked by overtones of Beloved, the Jonathan Demme film of Toni Morrison's book, it's worth seeing…

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Review of Breaking Away (1979)

By Linda Holmes (61) for NPR (1,713) on 27 Sep 1989

The way the movie handles cycling, which isn't one of cinema's more heavily covered sports, introduces another entire dimension and transforms…

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Review of Defiance (1980)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 18 Dec 1988

It's an inspiring story, if one that doesn't need quite as much poetic inspiration as Ed Zwick's movie insists on giving it, with dialogue…

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Review of Brian's Song (1971)

By Elvis Mitchell (489) for NPR (1,713) on 29 Oct 1986

The film's only concession to contemporary cinematography was in the cliché of lyrical slow motion, with extended sequences of the two football…

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Review of Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

By Lloyd Schwartz (2) for NPR (1,713) on 07 Dec 1983

In this movie, real history, in the form of the people who actually knew George Gershwin and performed his music, makes a bigger and truer…

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Review of A Christmas Carol (1938)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for NPR (1,713) on 27 Sep 1974

Gary Oldman pulls off his own hat trick, playing both noble Bob Cratchit and sickly Tiny Tim, as well as Scrooge's late partner, Marley, who…

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Review of Show Boat (1936)

By Lloyd Schwartz (2) for NPR (1,713) on 13 Dec 1965

Daring as the racial issues in Show Boat were, its glory has always been its music, and my only major regret about this film — one of the…

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