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Review of Redbelt (2008)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 08 Jun 2008

All of the tropes that make Redbelt comfortable and efficient also make it a little too familiar…

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Review of Son of Rambow (2007)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 08 Jun 2008

The boys' video project is modern enough to stand in contrast to the brick and tweed of the locale, but rather than glossing over that uncomfortable…

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Review of Be Kind Rewind (2008)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 08 Jun 2008

But with a skill that is difficult to pinpoint, Gondry seems to stumble like a fox from this paper-thin plot into a precious little ode to community…

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Review of Waitress (2007)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 08 Jun 2008

It's a love letter of the first degree, the kind that rises out of trepidation and confusion, almost by accident, with a sudden force of absolute…

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Review of Chicago 10 (2008)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 08 Jun 2008

Short on nuance but long on passion, Chicago 10 recreates the gradual boil-over from peaceful gathering to chaos by augmenting ample, close-range…

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Review of The Lives of Others (2006)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 08 Jun 2008

Although Henckel von Donnersmarck has a number of genuinely good ideas ... the film is marred by redundancy, indecision and clumsiness…

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Review of The Ruins (2008)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 08 Jun 2008

It's the kind of film that Sam Raimi might have directed 20 years ago, except that Carter Smith plays it straight, even though he seems to…

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Review of The Italian (2005)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 08 Jun 2008

With a tensed brow, Kolya Spiridonov plays a boy perpetually hovering between anxiety and dogged determination, and the film walks the same…

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Review of Savages (2006)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 08 Jun 2008

Oddly being marketed as a comedy by its distributor, The Savages is best approached as a drama with an intermittently light touch that's generally…

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Review of Caché (2005)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 07 Jun 2008

Michael Haneke's aptly named Caché (Hidden) is the kind of movie that fully engages the mind of the viewer…

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Review of Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 07 Jun 2008

The chaotic dinner scene pops like syncopated jazz, setting the tone for a warm, funny film that has more smiles than belly laughs…

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Review of A Good Year (2006)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 07 Jun 2008

[Russel Crowe's] supply of quips and pratfalls is inexhaustible, even when he's trapped at the bottom of a swimming pool surrounded by peat…

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Review of Akeelah and the Bee (2006)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 07 Jun 2008

Akeelah and the Bee is the kind of movie you want to recommend to every 11-year-old you know…

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Review of A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 07 Jun 2008

Altman's star-studded cast is natural and energetic -- with the exception of a surprisingly detached Keillor -- and the Hollywood folks mingle…

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Review of V for Vendetta (2006)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 07 Jun 2008

The details of V's beef with society are hazy, but the film has a certain purity of spirit…

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Review of Wordplay (2006)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 07 Jun 2008

Similar in structure to the recent movie Spellbound, Wordplay is a fun documentary about an American institution and national habit…

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Review of Art School Confidential (2006)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 07 Jun 2008

Unfortunately, the tender observations Zwigoff and Clowes specialize in are largely missing from Art School Confidential, which spends its…

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Review of Vantage Point (2008)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 07 Jun 2008

[Vantage Point is] a puzzle cut by a drunken, three-fingered jigsaw operator who lost a few pieces and chewed on a few others…

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Review of Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 05 Jun 2008

[It's] as good as most of this year's American would-be blockbusters, but it might've been far more interesting if the filmmakers had either…

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Review of I Love Your Work (2003)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 04 Jun 2008

It's an intriguing mish-mash, a meta-textual stew that Goldberg, unfortunately, paints with a big, thick brush and then underlines with fat…

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