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Review of My Dog Tulip (2010)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 05 Feb 2011

Many films have been written about the bonds between man and beast but few are as wise, as witty, or as unflinchingly founded in observation…

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Review of Somewhere (2010)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 14 Jan 2011

If you have the patience to give yourself over to the measured pace of this film…

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Review of Casino Jack (2010)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 07 Jan 2011

as a fact-based narrative it's a mess while as a character study it's shallow and unsatisfying…

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Review of Fish Tank (2009)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 03 Jan 2011

Plenty of films have presented us with the Angry Young Man but not so many with the Angry Young Woman ...Andrea Arnold does her bit to help…

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Review of Made in Dagenham (2010)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 29 Dec 2010

an exceptionally strong cast and high production values overcome the script's occasional lapses into melodrama…

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Review of Tamara Drewe (2010)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 17 Dec 2010

looks like the pilot for a television series stretched to almost two hours and provided with a healthy cinematography budget, but not much…

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Review of Marwencol (2010)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 17 Dec 2010

The film Marwencol is as mesmerizing as Mark's imaginary town and treats him and his world with absolute respect…

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Review of Waste Land (2010)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 10 Dec 2010

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Review of White Wedding (2009)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 05 Dec 2010

the didactic and unbelievable nature of many of the conversations and events, sometimes emphasized by cross-cutting, strains the patience…

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Review of Fair Game (2010)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 19 Nov 2010

the case made by Doug Liman's Fair Game: you can't count on either your elected officials or the news media to tell you the truth or even…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 19 Nov 2010

Childhood things ...[are] set aside as our three heroes, now young adults, set off on their own like resistance fighters in a World War II movie…

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Review of Last Train Home (2009)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 05 Nov 2010

Last Train Home finds a kind of desperate poetry in the hardships of the annual trip home…

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Review of The Tillman Story (2010)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 28 Oct 2010

Reportedly, Bar-Lev wanted to call it I'm Pat Fucking Tillman after the last words of the man himself...My own suggestion would be Blasting…

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Review of Stone (1974)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 21 Oct 2010

screenwriter Angus MacLachlan seems to be trying to rewrite Equus without realizing that: 1) what works on stage does not necessarily work…

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Review of Night Catches Us (2010)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 21 Oct 2010

a complex, intriguing film written and directed by Tanya Hamilton and set in Philadelphia's African American community in the summer of 1976…

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Review of Freakonomics (2010)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 21 Oct 2010

somewhere between ... an illustrated, freshman-level lecture by a superstar professor and ... a brainy but popular television anthology show…

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Review of Stone (2010)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 21 Oct 2010

screenwriter Angus MacLachlan seems to be trying to rewrite Equus without realizing that: 1) what works on stage does not necessarily work…

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Review of Stone (2012)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 21 Oct 2010

screenwriter Angus MacLachlan seems to be trying to rewrite Equus without realizing that: 1) what works on stage does not necessarily work…

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Review of Nowhere Boy (2009)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 14 Oct 2010

Were I a publicist, I'd probably use the tagline, The year John Lennon became John Lennon…

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Review of Let Me In (2010)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 30 Sep 2010

not so much a remake as a reimagining of the material. It's a brilliant film that offers a different, but in no way inferior, take on the story…

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