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Review of Guest of Cindy Sherman (2008)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 26 Mar 2009

The definitive study of the contemporary art world that Eric Bogosian, one of the movie's interviewees, calls complete bullshit…

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Review of Late Bloomer (2007)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 24 Mar 2009

Nominally a slasher movie, this is very much more a study of some psychological depth about what it means to be severely disabled…

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Review of Late Bloomer (2004)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 24 Mar 2009

Nominally a slasher movie, this is very much more a study of some psychological depth about what it means to be severely disabled…

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Review of Sita Sings the Blues (2008)

By Mark R. Leeper (892) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 22 Mar 2009

All the various visual styles come together perfectly. It is rare to find a film that can be enjoyed from start to finish…

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Review of Hearts and Minds (1974)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 20 Mar 2009

The definitive Vietnam War documentary and arguably the greatest political documentary ever made…

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Review of FTA (1972)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 20 Mar 2009

Stunning portrait of an antiwar musical comedy revue that was a corrective to Bob Hope's gung-ho UFO shows…

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Review of Hearts & Minds (1995)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 20 Mar 2009

The definitive Vietnam War documentary and arguably the greatest political documentary ever made…

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Review of Fermat's Room (2007)

By Mark R. Leeper (892) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 15 Mar 2009

The nifty plot and the puzzles that keep coming should be a pleasure for any thinking viewer…

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Review of Skills Like This (2007)

By Mark R. Leeper (892) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 10 Mar 2009

SKILLS LIKE THIS has a lot to offer, reminding us of the adage that the cheapest way to improve a film is with solid writing…

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Review of Watchmen (2001)

By Mark R. Leeper (892) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 08 Mar 2009

With a film featuring all this violence and with superheroes the last thing you would expect is a film so dreary and tedious…

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Review of Sita Sings the Blues (2008)

By Shane Burridge (68) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 08 Mar 2009

Avoids becoming pretentious or 'artistic' through a lively sense of humour that vies with the graphic design and Hanshaw's performances as…

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Review of Watchmen (2009)

By Mark R. Leeper (892) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 08 Mar 2009

With a film featuring all this violence and with superheroes the last thing you would expect is a film so dreary and tedious…

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Review of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 04 Mar 2009

Extremely powerful story about women dealing with illegal abortion issues in Stalinist Romania, but it is not a simple propaganda movie…

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Review of The Reader (2008)

By Mark R. Leeper (892) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 16 Feb 2009

At heart what makes the film powerful is Winslet in so strong a performance and so totally different from anything she has done in the past…

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Review of Coraline (2009)

By Mark R. Leeper (892) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 12 Feb 2009

Somewhere between Gaiman's writing and the rendering on the screen this film loses coherence with too little happening that makes sense…

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Review of Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus (2006)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 08 Feb 2009

A mostly entertaining and always informative documentary on evolution versus the George W. Bush-approved intelligent design…

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Review of Examined Life (2008)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 02 Feb 2009

Whatever you think of the interviewees (I confess to being immune to Zizek's charms), this is brilliant film-making…

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Review of Frost/Nixon (2008)

By Mark R. Leeper (892) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 29 Jan 2009

While the main character is Michael Sheen's David Frost, Frank Langella is fascinating as the cold and withdrawn Richard Nixon…

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Review of The Unforeseen (2007)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 23 Jan 2009

Powerful study of a landmark struggle between environmentalists and real estate developer in Austin, Texas in the early 90s…

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Review of Milk (2008)

By Mark R. Leeper (892) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 18 Jan 2009

This is a highly affecting film, and Sean Penn gives the most moving performance of the year of a very ordinary man whom history moved to greatness…

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