Archive for April, 2007

Movie Review | ‘Alice Neel’: A Portraitist’s Grandson Creates Her Portrait on Film

April 19th, 2007 by MATT ZOLLER SEITZ
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The fascinating documentary “Alice Neel” illuminates history while also demonstrating how an artist’s style reveals his or her...

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Movie Review | ‘In the Land of Women’: A Mixed-Up Son of ‘The Graduate’

April 19th, 2007 by STEPHEN HOLDEN
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The meek, mopey comedy “In the Land of Women” is the film equivalent of a sensitive emo band with one foot in alternative rock and the other in the squishy pop...

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Disturbia

April 14th, 2007 by Rolling Stone Movie Reviews
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Shia LaBeouf in Dreamworks' Starring:
Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Sarah Roemer, Carrie-Anne Moss
Review:
No sense kicking this thriller for plot holes and lapses in logic when the action, suspense and flirty sex come at such a lively clip. Shia LaBeouf, a gifted young actor still in search of that breakthrough role, is a winning combo of smart and smartass as Kale, a suburban teen under house arrest for having clocked his Spanish teacher. The dude was way too condescending about the trauma Kale...

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The Hoax

April 14th, 2007 by Rolling Stone Movie Reviews
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Photo Starring:
Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis, Julie...
Review:
Richard Gere, nearly unrecognizable with blackened hair and a fake nose, gives one of his very best performances as Clifford Irving, the huckster who won a million-dollar advance from McGraw-Hill in 1971 for writing an authorized biography of the notoriously reclusive tycoon Howard Hughes. The catch? Irving never met Hughes, a fact that only became known when the gazillionaire, played by Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator, gave a telephone news conference to announce the hoax....

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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The Movie

April 14th, 2007 by Rolling Stone Movie Reviews
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aqua teen hunger force Photo Starring:
Larry Blackmon, C. Martin Croker, Matt Maiellaro, Carey Means, An...
Review:
For those who are shit-ignorant of the late-night Adult Swim programming block on the Cartoon Network, this film of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force series may strike you as balls-out strange, since it involves neither teens nor water. Even us fans know you could bottle this animated series about foulmouthed fast-food products from New Jersey and call it instant stupid. No way do the show?s writers, directors and voice actors...

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