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Review of The Last Station (2009)

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

a big budget production with excellent actors and technical elements that can't decide on its tone and so ends up with a lot of elbows sticking…

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Review of Shutter Island (2010)

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

Scorsese is clearly having fun in this one: it's part police procedural, part gothic thriller, part sociological drama...from a director who…

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Review of Police, Adjective (2010)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 07 Feb 2010

a sharply satirical film which reveals its pleasures only gradually and at a whisper…

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Review of Crazy Heart (2009)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 22 Jan 2010

Bridges' performance as Blake so transcends the clichés that he's one of the favorites for the Best Actor Oscar this year…

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Review of The Lovely Bones (2009)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 16 Jan 2010

often visually striking but emotionally baffling, and ultimately seems stuck in the same sort of purgatory as its young heroine…

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Review of A Single Man (2009)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 16 Jan 2010

[A Single Man] communicates the terrible grief of a man who lost his partner of 16 years and must keep his mourning, as he kept the relationship,…

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Review of Lake Tahoe (2008)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 16 Jan 2010

[Lake Tahoe is] a small, calm movie that will take you into another world…

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Review of The Young Victoria (2009)

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

worth seeing for Emily Blunt's radiant performance as Victoria and for the eye-popping recreations of life and ritual at the English court…

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Review of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

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

while the film is not entirely successful, it certainly qualifies as a glorious mess of a failure…

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Review of Me and Orson Welles (2008)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 18 Dec 2009

There's nothing interesting about Efron's character which means that a film built around him can't hold our attention for long, with the possible…

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Review of Gozu (2003)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 14 Dec 2009

Gozu takes you on a very strange psychosexual journey, which is all the more disturbing because it takes place in completely ordinary surroundings…

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Review of The Messenger (2009)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 01 Dec 2009

[The Messenger] highlights the gulf between those who have served in Iraq and nearly everyone else they deal with after returning home…

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Review of The Damned United (2009)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 01 Dec 2009

the real story isn't about football, but about the competing agendas of two strong-willed individuals: one apparently playing the supporting…

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Review of An Education (2009)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 13 Nov 2009

a complex and morally ambiguous story which rewards the audience's attention without resorting to pushing their buttons…

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Review of 2012 (2009)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 13 Nov 2009

goes on so long it starts to feel like the fifth piece of chocolate cake when two or three would have been more enjoyable…

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Review of Coco Before Chanel (2009)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 06 Nov 2009

The script...adheres closely to biopic conventions but is brought alive by the magnetic performance of Tautou with strong support particularly…

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Review of The Antichrist (1974)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 30 Oct 2009

Now von Trier's trying his hand at the horror porn genre without abandoning the genital close-ups, making Antichrist a sort of horror porn squared…

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Review of American Casino (2009)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 23 Oct 2009

If there's an overarching theme it's that people respond to incentives and so regulation of the financial market is necessary to see that the…

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Review of Somers Town (2008)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 08 Oct 2009

Meadows' method of working with improvised scenes shot in long takes gives it a sense of emotional truth which is lacking in many more ambitious…

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Review of The Boys Are Back (2009)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 08 Oct 2009

reduces the complexities of human relationships to a series of aphorisms and sitcom-like scenes, each of which is carefully designed to…

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