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Review of The Constant Gardener (2005)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 03 Dec 2009

One of the best elements in the adaptation is Caine's blending, like le Carré's, of the past and the present so that one can enrich the other…

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Review of Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 26 Nov 2009

The same eye for immaculate compositions that had seemed increasingly to hem in his human actors here serves as the basis for some of the most…

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Review of Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 13 Nov 2009

[I]f Precious has a crucial flaw, it is that it is at once too bleak and too hopeful in its closing scenes: too bleak in the history it unearths,…

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Review of 2012 (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 13 Nov 2009

[J]ust as the cyclones and tsunamis of The Day After Tomorrow ultimately succumbed to a bad case of narrative frostbite, 2012's ludicrous thrills…

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Review of Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 14 Oct 2009

Where the Wild Things Are may not be a great film for children (or, at least, most children)…

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Review of Where the Wild Things Are (1975)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 14 Oct 2009

Where the Wild Things Are may not be a great film for children (or, at least, most children)…

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Review of Zombieland (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 04 Oct 2009

[E]verything Jennifer's Body was not--fast, funny, and fully aware of the obligations and opportunities inherent in the genre…

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Review of Jennifer's Body (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 17 Sep 2009

[T]here's something a bit sour about the whole enterprise, a lack of fun that becomes more evident as the injuries and indignities piled upon…

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Review of The Informant (2008)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 17 Sep 2009

[Damon] occupies his equivocating antihero utterly, capturing the Walter Mittyish self-delusion, the desperate desire to please, and the bottomless…

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Review of The Informant! (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 17 Sep 2009

[Damon] occupies his equivocating antihero utterly, capturing the Walter Mittyish self-delusion, the desperate desire to please, and the bottomless…

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Review of Extract (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 03 Sep 2009

[Extract] resembles its titular foodstuffs: less a fully realized comedy than the distillation of one…

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Review of Fracture (2007)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 28 Aug 2009

The chief pleasure in the picture (set in Los Angeles) is in watching Hopkins spin off another of his nutty self-possessed intellectual criminals--this…

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Review of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 23 Aug 2009

Johnny Depp's impersonation of the Thompson figure is effective up to a point, but it's hard to imagine any segment of the public embracing…

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Review of A Decent Factory (2005)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 20 Aug 2009

Why, then, is the picture chilling? Because it is a calm reminder of an inevitability…

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Review of Inglourious Basterds (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 19 Aug 2009

The true moral universe in which the film unfolds is that of the spaghetti westerns...: a world in which the strong are above the law and the…

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Review of Flirting with Disaster (1996)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 19 Aug 2009

Flirting With Disaster, like that Energizer Bunny, keeps on going. But in this case, the perpetual motion is a deliciously hysterical rush…

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Review of District 9 (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 13 Aug 2009

District 9 succeeds brilliantly as an exercise in style, but the style promises a level of substance the film never quite delivers…

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Review of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 10 Aug 2009

Sometimes, a film defies conventional narrative and artistic standards so utterly that it seems unfair to judge it by them…

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Review of Julie & Julia (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 06 Aug 2009

[T]he whole enterprise has a whiff of marketing to it. Did the filmmakers worry that Child wouldn't be 'relatable' to contemporary women…

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Review of Funny People (1976)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 29 Jul 2009

The movie...feels like the work of an artist in transition, an attempt by Apatow to see how far he can push his foul-mouthed bromances toward…

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