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Review of Breach (2007)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 15 Feb 2007

Breach is the strangely punchless story of a sting operation aimed at netting the biggest traitor/spy in recent U.S. history…

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Review of Music and Lyrics (2007)

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

It's not Ray, but it's a resonant look at the drudgery, desperation and dueling that underpin the creative process…

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Review of Catch and Release (2006)

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

Catch and Release has been described in the trades as a romantic comedy, but the rambling, episodic movie defies classification…

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Review of Venus (2010)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 19 Jan 2007

Venus director Roger Michell is not above holding the movie out as O'Toole's swan song, but the movie is so obscenity-laced, so unsentimental…

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Review of Venus (2011)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 19 Jan 2007

Venus director Roger Michell is not above holding the movie out as O'Toole's swan song, but the movie is so obscenity-laced, so unsentimental…

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Review of Venus (1990)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 19 Jan 2007

Venus director Roger Michell is not above holding the movie out as O'Toole's swan song, but the movie is so obscenity-laced, so unsentimental…

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Review of Venus (2006)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 19 Jan 2007

Venus director Roger Michell is not above holding the movie out as O'Toole's swan song, but the movie is so obscenity-laced, so unsentimental…

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Review of Venus (2006)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 19 Jan 2007

Venus director Roger Michell is not above holding the movie out as O'Toole's swan song, but the movie is so obscenity-laced, so unsentimental…

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Review of Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 12 Jan 2007

It all adds up to what many regard as the year's best film (a National Board of Review best picture), a work of imagination that is thrilling…

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Review of Miss Potter (2006)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 05 Jan 2007

There is something refreshingly outward-looking and un-divalike about Potter, or maybe it just seems that way after recent biopics about artists…

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Review of Children of Men (2006)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 05 Jan 2007

Cuaron is known as a humanist/pictorialist (The Little Princess, Y Tu Mama Tambien), but he does exceedingly well here with action and violence,…

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Review of Notes on a Scandal (2006)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 05 Jan 2007

Though [Dench's character's] actions are cruel, they are brilliantly, memorably so -- executed with a twisted genius worthy of Iago…

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Review of To Return (1982)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 22 Dec 2006

A rare success in the overcrowded (with formulaic disappointments) field of movies about estranged mothers and daughters who, at last, find…

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Review of Dreamgirls (2006)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 22 Dec 2006

Good thing movie theaters serve their drinks in paper or plastic, or Jennifer Hudson would be shattering glass at multiplexes all over America…

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Review of Volver (2009)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 22 Dec 2006

A rare success in the overcrowded (with formulaic disappointments) field of movies about estranged mothers and daughters who, at last, find…

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Review of Volver (2006)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 22 Dec 2006

A rare success in the overcrowded (with formulaic disappointments) field of movies about estranged mothers and daughters who, at last, find…

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Review of Eragon (2006)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 15 Dec 2006

I left Eragon feeling like I'd just watched a Renaissance Faire stage its own production of Star Wars…

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Review of The Holiday (2006)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 08 Dec 2006

There is evidence in The Holiday that the declining value of the dollar appears to have distorted the status of leading men on both sides of the pond…

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Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 21 Nov 2006

Fur is a nice-looking movie, Kidman a fine actress, but the metaphorical purpose of the hairy-guy thing is at once too obvious and insufficient…

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Review of A Good Year (2006)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 10 Nov 2006

Crowe never connects with this character, and his internal journey from putz to prince never attains any emotional resonance…

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