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Movie Review: FUGITIVE PIECES
May 05, 2008; ... Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 05-05-2008 Movie Review: FUGITIVE PIECES Adapted from Anne Michaels' novel, this resonant film tells of a Polish Jew who, at the age of nine, saw his parents killed and his sister abducted by the Nazis. As an adult, Jakob Beer (Dillane) is ...
Movie Review: IRON MAN
May 05, 2008; ... Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 05-05-2008 Movie Review: IRON MAN Is action more important than character in a superhero movie? They're not mutually exclusive of course, but this adaptation of the Marvel Comic favors the latter thanks to the casting of Robert Downey, Jr ....
Movie Review: MADE OF HONOR
May 05, 2008; ... Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 05-05-2008 Movie Review: MADE OF HONOR "When Harry Met Sally" collides with "My Best Friend's Wedding" in a padded romantic-comedy whose degree of insipidness will depend on how much one considers Patrick Dempsey worthy of sex-symbol ...
Movie Review: MISTER LONELY
May 05, 2008; ... Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 05-05-2008 Movie Review: MISTER LONELY In Paris, a Michael Jackson impersonator (Luna) meets a faux Marilyn Monroe (Samantha Morton) and follows her to a commune in Scotland where everybody pretends to be someone they're not -- Charlie ...
Movie Review: REDBELT
May 05, 2008; ... Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 05-05-2008 Movie Review: REDBELT Starting out in riveting, muscular fashion, this story about a jiu-jitsu teacher (the superb Chiwetel Ejiofor) goes soft during the middle rounds. Writer-director David Mamet is unable to score enough ...
Movie Review: SON OF RAMBOW
May 05, 2008; ... Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 05-05-2008 Movie Review: SON OF RAMBOW "Make Believe Not War" is the tagline for this winsomely raucous dramedy about friendship, faith and cinephilia. Set in England during the early 1980s, it follows a lad raised in a strict religious ...
Movie Review: FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON
Apr 07, 2008; ... Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 04-07-2008 Movie Review: FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON This loose homage to Albert Lamorisse's 1956 children's classic is the se= cond film by Hou Hsiao-hsien to be set outside of his native Taiwan. Like the rest of = his work, ...
Movie Review: LEATHERHEADS
Apr 07, 2008; ... Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 04-07-2008 Movie Review: LEATHERHEADS The flimsy headgear worn by football players in the 1920s provided little= protection, but that doesn't explain how this sepia-tinged bomb got so slaphappy. Geo= rge Clooney must have sustained ...
Movie Review: MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS
Apr 07, 2008; ... Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 04-07-2008 Movie Review: MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS In Wong Kar Wai's English-language film, a jilted New Yorker played by ch= anteuse Norah Jones embarks on a cross-country odyssey to nurse her wounds and de= cide about the kindly caf=E9 ...
Movie Review: NIM'S ISLAND
Apr 07, 2008; ... Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 04-07-2008 Movie Review: NIM'S ISLAND It's hard to predict whether kids will cotton to this grinder about a gir= l and her marine-biologist father (Gerard Butler) who live on a fantasy island in t= he South Pacific and are visited by ...
Movie Review: THE RUINS
Apr 07, 2008; ... Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 04-07-2008 Movie Review: THE RUINS This latest horror film about Americans in foreign-locale trouble focuses= on the supernatural terror encountered by four pretty people venturing into the = Mexican jungle in search of an "off the ...
Movie Review: SHINE A LIGHT
Apr 07, 2008; ... Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 04-07-2008 Movie Review: SHINE A LIGHT Start me up, indeed. The Rolling Stones boast a combined age of 253, but = you wouldn't know it from the supercharged performance they give in Martin Scorsese's = concert film. Mick, Keith, ...
Movie Review: NTARY
Apr 07, 2008; ... Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 04-07-2008 Movie Review: ...
Movie Review: TUYA'S MARRIAGE
Apr 07, 2008; ... Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 04-07-2008 Movie Review: TUYA'S MARRIAGE This winner of the Golden Bear prize at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival cen= ters on an indomitable heroine whose economic circumstances and emotional needs coll= ide on the arid plains of Inner ...
Movie Review: BOARDING GATE
Mar 31, 2008; ... Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 03-31-2008 Movie Review: BOARDING GATE The turgid parts outnumber the erotic passages in this peripheral thriller from French moviemaker Olivier Assayas. Asia Argento plays a former prostitute whose relationship with a struggling financier ...
Movie Review: FLAWLESS
Mar 31, 2008; ... Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 03-31-2008 Movie Review: FLAWLESS One key to a successful heist picture is managing the suspension of disbelief and getting viewers to swallow enough outlandishness. In this case, once you accept Demi Moore as the highest-ranking female ...
Movie Review: MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD
Mar 31, 2008; ... Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 03-31-2008 Movie Review: MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD Growing up in the 1960s and '70s, one son of a working-class Italian family becomes a firebrand communist while his younger sibling (Elio Germano) gravitates toward fascism. Sounds like ...
Movie Review: PRICELESS
Mar 31, 2008; ... Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 03-31-2008 Movie Review: PRICELESS A gold-digger finds true love on the French Riviera in this fizzy picture pairing two Gallic stars. With its sophisticated slant on sex and romance, the domestic hit will tickle foreign audiences while ...
Movie Review: RUN, FAT BOY, RUN
Mar 31, 2008; ... Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 03-31-2008 Movie Review: RUN, FAT BOY, RUN In his bigscreen directorial debut, "Friends" actor David Schwimmer travels across the pond to tell the story of a hapless fellow (Pegg) who goes to extreme lengths to win back the woman (Thandie ...
Movie Review: STOP-LOSS
Mar 31, 2008; ... Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 03-31-2008 Movie Review: STOP-LOSS It's a shame so much of the pre-release publicity for this film, which follows a decorated Iraq War veteran who goes AWOL after receiving orders to return to the Middle East, concerns its commercial ...