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Article: Violent, confusing plot sinks retro look at post-war Berlin.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Movie review)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
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- March 2, 2007
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Byline: Daniel M. Kimmel
COLUMN: Movie Review
Did you notice at Sunday's Academy Awards there was very little talk about "The Good German"? It had one nomination (for musical score), which it lost. This was one of the highly touted end-of-the-year films that, when it finally arrived, turned out to be a disappointment. Credit director Steve Soderbergh for taking chances. Sometimes they work ("Out of Sight," "Traffic") and sometimes they don't ("Full Frontal," "Bubble").
Here, he's taken a contemporary novel set in post-WWII Germany, and filmed it as if it were a 1940s Warner Bros. movie (think "Casablanca" or "To Have and Have Not"). The ...
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