Archive for May, 2007

Movie Review | ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End’: Back to the Bounding Main

by JEANNETTE CATSOULIS May 30th, 2007 | Movie Reviews
“At World’s End” is the third and perhaps final episode in the swishy, swashbuckling “Pirates of the Caribbean” saga.
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Mr. Brooks

by Cinema Blend Movie Reviews May 30th, 2007 | Movie Reviews
IMr. BrooksI does an excellent job of showing off Hurt and Costners unsettling inner dialogue, but cant manage to pull the scripts other storylines together quite so well. Moore is unyielding as the besieged Atwood and Dane Cook takes a bold turn from his usual comic characters to play something much darker, but good performances cant salvage the meandering script. With so many disconnects the movie ends up feeling like a bunch of great acting scenes strung together with no one to make sure they tell a solid, overall story.
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Movie Review | ‘Radiant City’: Life in the Sprawling Suburbs, if You Can Really Call It Living

by MATT ZOLLER SEITZ May 29th, 2007 | Movie Reviews
Blending documentary elements and some dramatic material, “Radiant City” is an acerbic position paper on the cultural damage done by postwar architectural fads.
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Death at a Funeral

by Cinema Blend Movie Reviews May 28th, 2007 | Movie Reviews
The latest from director and beloved Mupeteer Frank Oz, IDeath at a FuneralI is a painfully typical farce, full of wild coincidences and clich plot devices; Luckily, its put together with such energy and aplomb that even though you may have seen some of it before its still surprisingly funny.
It stars a mostly British ensemble cast of unfamiliar names with familiar faces. If youre not a hardcore ISerenityI fan then you probably wont know who Alan Tudyk is, but when you see him standing bare-bottomed on a rooftop tripping on acid youll instantly think, oh hey its
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Bug

by Cinema Blend Movie Reviews May 26th, 2007 | Movie Reviews
IBugI is a cautionary chamber piece of trusting love and endless drug use, while the majority of audience will want to see Ashley Judd ripping the bugs out of her skin. Predetermined expectations of what the film will be, sight unseen, destroys IBugIs chances of finding its audience based purely on our reliance on marketing. The film makes no concessions for closed-minded viewers, who will ultimately dismiss the film as boring. William Friedkins directing is patient and cerebral.
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