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Review of In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2007)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 03 Aug 2008

A visually stunning love letter to the much-maligned city...It's when the actors open their mouths that I start to have a problem…

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Review of I'm Through with White Girls (2007)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 08 Jul 2008

A broad comedy that occasionally suffers for its leads' lack of comic chemistry...it takes the film a while to work through the stereotypes…

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Review of Iron Man (1931)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 18 Jun 2008

More convincing as sex fantasy than political allegory, Iron Man suggests the answer to combating Them is for Us to reestablish the link between…

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Review of Iron Man (1951)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 18 Jun 2008

More convincing as sex fantasy than political allegory, Iron Man suggests the answer to combating Them is for Us to reestablish the link between…

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Review of Iron Man (2008)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 18 Jun 2008

More convincing as sex fantasy than political allegory, Iron Man suggests the answer to combating Them is for Us to reestablish the link between…

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Review of Sex and Breakfast (2007)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 19 May 2008

The only thing shameful about Sex and Breakfast is its unwillingness to get really shameful…

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Review of The Wackness (2008)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 24 Apr 2008

With its full-on, fully uncritical glorification of adolescent male self-indulgence and permanent immaturity, The Wackness is a kind of cinematic…

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Review of Control (2013)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 04 Feb 2008

Smashes the music biopic mold by portraying the star at its center not as a mythological creature, but as a real-life, messed-up kid in over his head…

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Review of Control (2007)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 04 Feb 2008

Smashes the music biopic mold by portraying the star at its center not as a mythological creature, but as a real-life, messed-up kid in over his head…

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Review of The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 04 Feb 2008

Working through [Jason] Schwartzman as an alter-ego seems to recharge Anderson's ability to marry pitch-perfect style to emotional honesty…

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Review of Bigger Stronger Faster* (2008)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 04 Feb 2008

Mounts a surprisingly sophisticated argument...that steroid criminalization amounts to hating the player whilst willfully ignoring the dynamics…

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Review of 2 Days in Paris (2007)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 04 Feb 2008

An almost Brechtian analysis of what happens to a relationship after that magic hour…

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Review of Control (2004)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 04 Feb 2008

Smashes the music biopic mold by portraying the star at its center not as a mythological creature, but as a real-life, messed-up kid in over his head…

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Review of Ballast (2008)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 04 Feb 2008

Beautifully composed...it gets you by playing hard to get…

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Review of Go Go Tales (2008)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 04 Feb 2008

Probably the most lovingly photographed stripper movie of all time…

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Review of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 04 Feb 2008

Tim Burton's Goth opera may be bloody, but it's most disturbing when it's talking about love…

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Review of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 04 Feb 2008

Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei and Albert Finney are doing some really fascinating, nuanced work, and it's all just slightly diluted by Sidney Lumet's…

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Review of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 04 Feb 2008

An almost excessively beautiful aestheticization of misery…

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Review of Across the Universe (2007)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 04 Feb 2008

A shorter cut, stripped of some of the forced multiculturalism and contemporary political references, would play like gangbusters in middle schools…

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Review of Trouble the Water (2008)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 02 Feb 2008

Tells as powerful a story about the New Orleans diaspora as I've seen on film, from an angle unfamiliar. It plays out like a love story…

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