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Living for the Game
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars.
Everyone has a friend who’s just a tad over the top about his favorite sports team. Well, what if everything he did in his everyday life revolved around that team? More
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Soaring to the Screen at Long Last
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars.
Perhaps the biggest surprise about Astro Boy is that it took Japan’s beloved cartoon robot more than half a century to make his big-screen debut. Originally conceived in 1951 by famed animator Osamu Tezuka as Tetsuwan Atomu, or Mighty Atom, and later reinvented as Astro Boy for American TV in the 60s, the boy with the mechanical body and the soul of a sprightly, overconfident child gets his origin story retold in the latest piece of eye candy from Flushed Away director David Bowers. More
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An Action-Packed, Clichéd Melodrama
Packed with Tony Jaa’s signature fighting moves and a variety of fighting styles and weapons, Ong Bak 2: The Beginning will leave Jaa’s fans mostly pleased. More
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Predictable, Obvious, Banal
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars.
Everything about Motherhood, Katherine Dieckmann’s comedy about a day-in-the-life of a Manhattan-based, stay-at-home mom, is painfully predictable, painfully obvious, and painfully banal. More
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A Compelling Character Study
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars.
Less a traditional sports drama or a standard biopic than a character study, The Damned United is never less than compelling thanks to Morgan’s sure-footed insight into Clough’s complex, contradictory personality and Michael Sheen’s chameleon-like performance. More
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A Journey Into Darkness
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars.
How does one begin to describe a film like Antichrist, aptly described in the press notes as director Lars von Trier’s latest provocation? It is a repulsive, perplexing piece of art. It is also brutally effective. More
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How Basketball Saved Five Lives
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars.
The first words that come to mind after watching More Than a Game, a borderline hagiographic documentary about NBA superstar and Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James, his longtime friends and fellow basketball players and their championship-winning high-school basketball team, are “slick", “sentimental", and “superficial". It’s also affecting, poignant, and, on occasion, insightful, and for basketball fans (and especially for LeBron James’ fans), worth the price of a DVD rental or catching it on ESPN. More
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A Sequel That Improves on its Predecessor
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars.
Producer Emmanuel Benbihy, who scored a modest arthouse success three years ago with Paris, je t'aime, an romance-centered anthology film that mixed 18 filmmakers with Paris’ 18 arrondissements (districts), is back with New York, I Love You, the second in a planned “Cities of Love” series (Rio de Janeiro and Shanghai are next). Unsurprisingly for an anthology film, the shorts range from the slight and superficial to the insightful and reflective. More
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A Solid Period Piece
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars.
An Education, a coming-of-age drama directed by Lone Scherfig and adapted by Nick Hornby from Lynn Barber’s memoir, arrives in North American movie theaters ten months after it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this past January. Minus a third-act stumble, the praise received on the festival circuit for An Education -- Scherfig’s unobtrusive direction, Hornby’s deft screenplay and newcomer Carey Mulligan’s performance as Jenny -- is more than justified. More
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The Wild Rumpus Starts
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars.
How much you appreciate Spike Jonze’s beautiful adaptation of author Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are might depend, more than anything else, on your willingness to be challenged. Unlike many movies aimed at young audiences, this one is neither facile nor sugarcoated. It is uncompromising in its intelligence and unflinching in its depiction of the downside of childhood. More
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