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Review of Paranormal Activity (2007)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 10 Jan 2010

I'd rank being stuck in a big quiet house at night as one of life's most easily unnerving experiences, and this movie capitalizes on it…

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Review of Up in the Air (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 29 Dec 2009

[Its] themes aren't necessarily original, but Up in the Air knows how to package them well, adultly, soberly, with its dependable script and…

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Review of The Hangover (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 29 Dec 2009

Quite entertaining as an entry in this tried-and-true genre of guys going on a inadvertent wacky adventure, and I like how this one is set…

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Review of Avatar (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 29 Dec 2009

Although it looks seamless and wonderful, I'm starting to wonder how worthy it really is to use high-end computer animation to top the next…

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

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 29 Dec 2009

[Precious] is a unique character, not self-pitying and sad, but rather stubborn and forward-looking in angry, almost narrow fortitude…

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Review of Avatar (2011)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 29 Dec 2009

Although it looks seamless and wonderful, I'm starting to wonder how worthy it really is to use high-end computer animation to top the next…

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Review of Inglourious Basterds (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 22 Dec 2009

Shows how most of us turn to film for both fantasy escape and an avenue to make the abstract past tangible, enough to even possibly, and powerfully,…

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Review of The Hurt Locker (2008)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 15 Dec 2009

[Bigelow] may have finally given the Iraq War its definitive identifying film…

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Review of Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 15 Dec 2009

Moore makes the stories of injustice he's gathered the real meat of his film; and as he tells them, he shows a continued disillusionment at…

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Review of Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 13 Dec 2009

I'm starting to wish every auteur would go and make his or her own stop-motion animated flick; what a fantastic experiment that could be…

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Review of Invictus (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 10 Dec 2009

[Flows] with a simplicity that is almost childlike in its optimism…

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Review of District 9 (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 07 Dec 2009

Since the metaphor itself is pretty clear, Blomkamp goes for the visceral quality of the images and situations…

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Review of The Blind Side (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 28 Nov 2009

Incessantly positive because it's about good deeds and its ripple effects…

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Review of Food, Inc. (2008)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 28 Nov 2009

It's a harsh feeling, but Food, Inc. does its job in just getting out the information that most of us probably want to ignore and shouldn't…

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Review of (500) Days of Summer (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 24 Nov 2009

At last, here's a movie that takes the wimpy, tortured, hopelessly-in-love boys from the other movies and tells them to grow up…

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Review of Brüno (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 24 Nov 2009

[Homophobia] deserves confrontation, but when done in the manner of the movie here, it is less enlightening than it is just plain squirmingly funny…

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Review of Monkeybone (2001)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 16 Nov 2009

Primed to be dark, twisted, and playful -- all exhibited traits of the works of the director, animator Henry Selick -- it is instead juvenile,…

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Review of The Nativity Story (2006)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 07 Nov 2009

Frankly, anyone could have made this movie in the particular way it's presented…

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Review of The Mist (2007)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 30 Oct 2009

The Mist paints [its] divides starkly -- perhaps a bit too much so -- but combined with its spooks and gore, it makes for effective, smart…

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Review of Friday Night Lights (2004)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 30 Oct 2009

What Friday Night Lights offers is the perspective that, for the people and young players caught up in this whirlwind, football simultaneously…

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