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Review of The Wrestler (1971)

By Rob Boylan (29) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 22 Jan 2009

Pro wrestling is not an easy subject to take seriously, but director Darren Aronofsky displays it well as a spellbinding muscle ballet, sweaty…

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Review of Outlander (2008)

By Justin Strout (143) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 22 Jan 2009

A harmlessly entertaining, old-fashioned epic that fuses a SciFi Channel-esque space-colonization parable with an Iron-Age period actioner…

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Review of The Wrestler (2008)

By Rob Boylan (29) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 22 Jan 2009

Pro wrestling is not an easy subject to take seriously, but director Darren Aronofsky displays it well as a spellbinding muscle ballet, sweaty…

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Review of The Wrestler (1984)

By Rob Boylan (29) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 22 Jan 2009

Pro wrestling is not an easy subject to take seriously, but director Darren Aronofsky displays it well as a spellbinding muscle ballet, sweaty…

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Review of The Reader (2008)

By Steve Schneider (315) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 05 Jan 2009

Director Stephen Daldry and screenwriter David Hare adapt Bernhard Schlink's novel into a shuffling, episodic entertainment that's undermined…

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Review of Let the Right One In (2008)

By Steve Schneider (315) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 06 Nov 2008

Sweet within its own bloodthirsty idiom, the film inhabits a twilight world in which love doesn't merely conquer all; it'll rip your damn head…

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Review of W. (2008)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 31 Oct 2008

It's uncertain if W…

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Review of Brideshead Revisited (2008)

By Liz Langely (1) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 30 Jul 2008

Those impatient with Anglophilia may grow restless, but the film often visually enchants, and it's chockablock with themes that transcend period…

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Review of The Dark Knight (2008)

By Steve Schneider (315) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 23 Jul 2008

A product of these troubled times, the sequel to 2005's Batman Begins includes nods to terrorism, domestic surveillance and even sanctioned…

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Review of The Incredible Hulk (1977)

By Justin Strout (143) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 11 Jun 2008

The Incredible Hulk isn't a work of art, but director Leterrier had the sense to recognize that it wasn't supposed to be art in the first place…

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Review of The Incredible Hulk (2008)

By Justin Strout (143) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 11 Jun 2008

The Incredible Hulk isn't a work of art, but director Leterrier had the sense to recognize that it wasn't supposed to be art in the first place…

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Review of The Band's Visit (2007)

By Anders Wright (338) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 14 Apr 2008

The Band's Visit is a charming little drama that skirts sentimentality and manages to be a feel-good film without necessarily feeling very good…

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Review of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

By Steve Schneider (315) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 07 Mar 2008

It's about time somebody brought the wide-eyed wonder back to movies, and it's wonder indeed we experience whenever we get to witness the divine…

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Review of The Air I Breathe (2007)

By J.b. Mitchell (4) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 28 Feb 2008

The movie takes itself way too seriously, and it doesn't add up to much, but, nevertheless, it's borderline entertaining…

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Review of Charlie Bartlett (2008)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 28 Feb 2008

Charlie Bartlett represents a new sincerity…

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Review of In Bruges (2008)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 21 Feb 2008

As with all road movies, it all comes down to chemistry, and almost every character in In Bruges convincingly connects, selling the story's…

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Review of The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 21 Feb 2008

Condensing five short juvenile novels into a single 90-minute film, the screenwriters have done a decent job of constructing a tale that will…

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Review of Be Kind Rewind (2008)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 21 Feb 2008

Gondry invites us to rewind to a time before corporate domination, while failing to realize that 'corporate' and 'professional' are not synonyms…

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Review of Jumper (2008)

By Cole Haddon (33) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 21 Feb 2008

Jumper isn't a comic-book movie, but it feels like one…

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Review of Persepolis (2007)

By Curt Holman (5) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 07 Feb 2008

[Marjane] Satrapi and [Vincent] Paronnaud wed the graphic novel to animation in Persepolis, and it's the kind of blessed marriage through which…

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