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Review of El Bulli: Cooking in Progress (2011)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 23 Oct 2011

A rather elegantly simplistic and hands-off exploration of food as avant-garde art that cooks up all sorts of elemental yearnings in the tastebuds…

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Review of Oranges and Sunshine (2010)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 22 Oct 2011

A 'message movie' told in staid, blocky fashion, as if already edited down for a Hallmark-style TV presentation, and the lowest-common-denominator…

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Review of Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology (2011)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 21 Oct 2011

Tiffany Shlain's rangy, autobiographic treatise on technology and modern life has a soul, and bristles with a hunger and intellectual vigor…

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Review of Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

By Perri Nemiroff (375) for Shockya.com (657) on 20 Oct 2011

You know what's coming, but every time the lights dim and the night number title card appears, you anxiously await the demons next taunt, a…

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Review of Father of Invention (2010)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 16 Oct 2011

A weird and fitfully fresh comedy with a name-heavy cast that almost methodically fumbles away a viewer's engagement, leaving them with thoughts…

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Review of The Thing (2011)

By Perri Nemiroff (375) for Shockya.com (657) on 14 Oct 2011

Nowhere close to the caliber of Carpenter's version, but visually stimulating, creepy and well paced enough to get your heart pumping…

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Review of Mardi Gras: Spring Break (2011)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 13 Oct 2011

An unsubtle and roundly unfunny stinker, and the sort of film that no cast member would bring up freely of their own volition in any interview…

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Review of The Woman (2011)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 11 Oct 2011

Its muddled finale feels like a manifestation of Weezer's 'Undone (The Sweater Song),' but this Woman is undeniably unforgettable, and in a…

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Review of The Skin I Live In (2011)

By Perri Nemiroff (375) for Shockya.com (657) on 09 Oct 2011

Intriguing characters that are woven together beautifully, but that doesn't mean they're people you care about and that becomes a problem when…

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Review of Real Steel (2011)

By Perri Nemiroff (375) for Shockya.com (657) on 04 Oct 2011

It's a movie about futuristic robot boxing; as long as you don't walk in looking for something as real and gritty as 'The Fighter' or 'Warrior,…

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Review of Berlin '36 (2009)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 02 Oct 2011

Not all true stories are created equal, as Berlin '36, which unfolds with such a singular lack of dramatic heft as to almost defy logic, amply…

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Review of Shaolin (2011)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 01 Oct 2011

Ambitiously staged set pieces fall victim to portentous technique, creating an ultimately irreconcilable chasm between how much one wants to…

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Review of I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 01 Oct 2011

A stirring French familial drama of simmering resentment, anchored by a searing performance from young Vincent Rottiers…

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Review of American Teacher (2011)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 29 Sep 2011

An inoffensive but hardly essential piece of occupational boosterism…

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Review of Dream House (2011)

By Perri Nemiroff (375) for Shockya.com (657) on 29 Sep 2011

Sloppy filmmaking, sloppy writing, sloppy editing. It's too bad the acting isn't as bad…

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Review of Sarah Palin: You Betcha! (2011)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 28 Sep 2011

Broomfield's eye-opening doc re-treads a lot of known ground about Palin, but also drags out into the full light of day the danger of her particular…

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Review of Programming the Nation? (2011)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 28 Sep 2011

A shaggy look at the history of subliminal messaging and advertising in the United States that leaves one wanting for the pruning of a sensible…

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Review of 50/50 (2011)

By Perri Nemiroff (375) for Shockya.com (657) on 28 Sep 2011

You may look and sound ridiculous when '50/50' makes you laugh and cry at the same time, but the embarrassment is well worth it…

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Review of Bobby Fischer Against the World (2011)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 28 Sep 2011

Tackles the iconoclastic nature of its subject both personally and professionally, making a persuasive, emotionally involving case for the…

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Review of Thunder Soul (2010)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 28 Sep 2011

Not without its problems, but overall a compelling snapshot of how and why good teachers matter, as well as a case for the value of the continued…

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