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Review of Run Fatboy Run (2007)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 28 Mar 2008

The sort of flat-footed studio film that takes the basic ingredients of an underground hit, drains them of personality and style, and spits…

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Review of 21 (2008)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 28 Mar 2008

[21] devoted to the idea that beating Vegas is man's highest purpose…

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Review of Stop-Loss (2008)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 28 Mar 2008

The Holllywood-Goes-to-Iraq movie has turned into something of a box office ghetto, but Stop-Loss may be able to break out…

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Review of Snow Angels (2007)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 28 Mar 2008

Snow Angels does nothing to alleviate the pall of depression that hangs over American movies…

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Review of Sleepwalking (2008)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 21 Mar 2008

A girl abandoned by her mother, a father unable to offer anything but hatred to his own children -- these are narrative elements of potentially…

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Review of Married Life (2008)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 21 Mar 2008

If you can slow yourself down to the stately pace of 1950 (a whiskey sour or two might help), you might enjoy the offbeat Married Life…

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Review of Blindsight (2006)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 14 Mar 2008

The underdog sports movie and follow-your-dreams narrative gets an interesting makeover in Blindsight…

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Review of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 07 Mar 2008

If you felt the problem with Atonement was that it took all of the fun out of World War II, well, somebody's made a movie just for you…

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Review of Faraway, So Close! (1993)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 29 Feb 2008

The movie meanders for two and a half hours, has glaring continuity gaps, and repeatedly confuses self-consciousness with irony, sincerity…

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Review of The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 29 Feb 2008

It might help if more effort had been made to make Henry an interesting character (history indicated that he was), but Bana is all costume…

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Review of Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 22 Feb 2008

It's not anti-military, or even anti-war…

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Review of Charlie Bartlett (2008)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 22 Feb 2008

The movie is unevenly directed, with stiffly mounted scenes and tonal shifts between offhand comedy and ham-fisted drama…

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Review of Fool's Gold (2008)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 08 Feb 2008

The plot gets messier without getting funnier, and there's something distasteful about the way the movie treats its black Bahamian characters…

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Review of Mad Money (2008)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 18 Jan 2008

What's intended as empathy feels more like condescension, built around Hollywood's out-of-touch belief that anything below Land Rover is the…

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Review of There Will Be Blood (2007)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 04 Jan 2008

That this insistently grim movie remains watchable is due in large measure to Day-Lewis, playing another wild-eyed eccentric (shades of Bill…

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Review of The Great Debaters (2007)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 26 Dec 2007

There's so much to like in Denzel Washington's new movie, it's easier to accentuate the positive…

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Review of The Kite Runner (2007)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 14 Dec 2007

The young actors are quite good, as is Homayoun Ershadi as Amir's intellectual father…

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Review of Juno (2007)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 14 Dec 2007

I feel almost duty-bound to say something contentious about the highly praised Juno, but truth is, it's every bit as good as advertised…

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Review of Atonement (1971)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 07 Dec 2007

An impressive expenditure of talent and craft on a complicated, stubbornly book-bound story that remains at a frustrating emotional distance…

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Review of Atonement (2007)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 07 Dec 2007

An impressive expenditure of talent and craft on a complicated, stubbornly book-bound story that remains at a frustrating emotional distance…

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