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Review of The Host (2006)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

A livid bureaucratic satire, berserk creature feature and surprisingly somber drama, The Host is a convulsive, wild ride - simultaneously eliciting…

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Review of Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

Untethered to any post-TV era is a conclusion that America gets too comfortable with the mental inactivity it enables. Edward R…

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Review of Sexy Beast (2001)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

It's not just the ironic kick of watching the guy who played Gandhi get his rocks off on sociopathic violence…

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Review of Hotel Rwanda (2004)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

Like Schindler's List, Hotel Rwanda shows how the madness of genocide and war converted one man's context of wealth and success from capitalism…

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Review of Frequency (2000)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

Gregory Hoblit's best film generates Spielbergian fascination with temporal drama of twisting timelines, infused with personal conflict and…

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Review of The Girlfriend Experience (2009)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

Like a sneaky P.I. seeking weakness, Soderbergh places his camera behind everyday barriers…

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Review of In America (2003)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

In America serves as a peaceful reminder of the simplicity and clarity with which kids can stare down death and help adults come to a place…

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Review of The Hurt Locker (2008)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 23 Sep 2010

The decade's best fictional film about its real war, it's a unique perspective on the workplace high of delivering containment from chaos…

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Review of Into the Wild (2007)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 22 Sep 2010

Even in its harrowing final moments, it reaches a spiritually transcendent pinnacle - the idea of ending one long, strange trip and plummeting…

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Review of The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 22 Sep 2010

Seth Gordon's unexpectedly engrossing documentary about the quest for a Donkey Kong record - a seeming paradise only for the pale and pasty…

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Review of Jackass Number Two (2006)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 22 Sep 2010

Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera and company prod themselves into a hilariously fascinating exploration, and exploitation, of their own psychological…

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Review of Seabiscuit (2003)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 22 Sep 2010

It's inspiring despite a sobering thesis: The future is intoxicating, but progress is a kind way of rendering someone's livelihood obsolete…

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Review of Secretary (2002)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 22 Sep 2010

Secretary recalibrates the capabilities of meaningful romantic comedy - a Pygmalion variation that's stealthily tender, witty but never broad…

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Review of The Mist (2007)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 22 Sep 2010

The black-and-white version's stark contrasts give greater claustrophobic force to the fragility of civilization when ideology grows as deadly…

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Review of Jackass: The Movie (2002)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 22 Sep 2010

Superficial shenanigans don't diminish its effect…

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Review of Milk? (2012)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 18 Sep 2010

Rather than force fictional acceptance at which the world unfortunately hasn't arrived, Gus van Sant effectively, astutely chronicles the slow,…

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Review of Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) (2001)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 18 Sep 2010

Its wink-wink eyelids feel heavy from having seen so much in Hollywood and it turns out to be the best accidental detective story since The…

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Review of Milk (2005)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 18 Sep 2010

Rather than force fictional acceptance at which the world unfortunately hasn't arrived, Gus van Sant effectively, astutely chronicles the slow,…

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Review of Kiss of the Dragon (2001)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 18 Sep 2010

Jet Li's true masterpiece of the 2000s is a blitzkrieg of crazy, hard-R martial arts…

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Review of My Dog Skip (2000)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 18 Sep 2010

Not a mawkish dying-dog tearjerker, My Dog Skip carries a touch of Mark Twain, with quasi-dangerous tall tales and awareness of a gap between…

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