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REVIEW | Exit Wounds: Irwin Winkler's "Home of the Brave"

by Michael Rowin on December 11, 2006

At the very least, "Home of the Brave" is one for the history books: the first major fiction film about the Iraq War and its effect on those fighting it. Updating "The Best Years of Our Lives" before conflict has reached an end (if there ever is one), this too-earnest drama seeks to realistically po...

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REVIEW | London Falling: Anthony Minghella's "Breaking and Entering"

by Indiewire on December 8, 2006

The kind of movie that makes a pejorative of words like "tasteful" and "intelligent," Anthony Minghella's "Breaking and Entering" arrives just in time to give the faint-hearted a refuge from the untidy pleasures of "Casino Royale" and "Borat." The latest from the director of "The English Patient" is...

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REVIEW | Half Step: James Ponsoldt's "Off the Black"

by Nick Pinkerton on December 6, 2006

There's a lot about "Off the Black" to remind you that it's a directorial debut - the bearded indie-type clerking a small-town convenience store who just screams "director's buddy," for example - but that's not the real problem. Writer/director James Ponsoldt's screenplay never stops reminding us th...

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REVIEW | Daily Grind: Daniel Burman's "Family Law"

by Nick Pinkerton on December 5, 2006

I don't go to the movies looking for modest intentions any more than your average baseball fan goes to the stadium hoping to see some well laid-down bunts, but Daniel Burman's "Family Law" is cause for exception. This story of a thirtyish law professor, Ariel Perelman, (Daniel Hendler), wriggling be...

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REVIEW | Into the Woods: David Lynch's "Inland Empire"

by Michael Koresky on December 4, 2006

Since its wildly anticipated debut screening at this October's New York Film Festival, David Lynch's three-hour, digital-video freefall "Inland Empire" has been both castigated and commended for the same things: its jaggedness, its refusal to give up its secrets, and its merrily incongruous jigsawin...

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REVIEW | Checking Out: Brad Silberling's "10 Items or Less"

by Kristi Mitsuda on November 30, 2006

Brad Silberling's "10 Items or Less" takes its title from the express checkout lane at the grocery store, and refers more particularly here to the aisle manned by Spanish actress Paz Vega as Scarlet in a working-class L.A. neighborhood. To this locale, Morgan Freeman--as himself, or someone like hi...

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REVIEW | Bad Blood: Thom Fitzgerald's "3 Needles"

by Kristi Mitsuda on November 27, 2006

Opening on World AIDS Day, Thom Fitzgerald's "3 Needles" sets itself up as a consciousness raiser from the get-go. Chronicling three stories built around the disease's manifestations across geographic and cultural distances in just over two hours, no wonder the result is reductive--but still, you s...

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REVIEW | Agriculture Clash: Nikolaus Geyrhalter's "Our Daily Bread"

by Michael Rowin on November 25, 2006

In one of those coincidences that will inevitably have critics spotting a newly forming cultural zeitgeist, the food industry doc "Our Daily Bread" now follows fast on the heels of Richard Linklater's Saylesian fictional adaptation of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation expose. Whatever the reasons fo...

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REVIEW | Peter Cattaneo's "Opal Dream"

by Michael Rowin on November 22, 2006

The greatest service one can do for a "family film" like "Opal Dream" is to not slap that condescending label on it at all. "Family" may be a useful generic stamp, but British director Peter Cattaneo's very good, very involving movie doesn't deserve to be qualified as such, with the accompanying sug...

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REVIEW | Hard Lessons: Nicolas Hytner's "The History Boys"

by Michael Koresky on November 20, 2006

What was evidently innovative on stage has become turgid and rote onscreen: Nicolas Hytner's big-screen adaptation of Alan Bennett's wildly praised, Tony-winning "The History Boys" is, as will be noted even in positive reviews, saddled with clumsy musical cues, dreadful montages of frolicking, and o...

REVIEW | Exit Wounds: Irwin Winkler's "Home of the Brave"

REVIEW | London Falling: Anthony Minghella's "Breaking and Entering"

REVIEW | Half Step: James Ponsoldt's "Off the Black"

REVIEW | Daily Grind: Daniel Burman's "Family Law"

REVIEW | Into the Woods: David Lynch's "Inland Empire"

REVIEW | Checking Out: Brad Silberling's "10 Items or Less"

REVIEW | Bad Blood: Thom Fitzgerald's "3 Needles"

REVIEW | Agriculture Clash: Nikolaus Geyrhalter's "Our Daily Bread"

REVIEW | Peter Cattaneo's "Opal Dream"

REVIEW | Hard Lessons: Nicolas Hytner's "The History Boys"

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