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Review: Adam
Sensitive and subtle
As opposed to what happens in most films about mentally challenged characters, the protagonist of Max Mayer's debut feature does not regress into a stereotype. Instead, he shows by contrast how stereotyped all the other characters are.
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PETER KEOUGH
| August 06, 2009
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Plausibility is not its strongest suit
"Your mom and I think that if the American economy can be billions in debt and still be fine, then so can you," reason the absurdly accepting parents of Rebecca Bloomwood.
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| February 18, 2009
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The screen offers relief from a world of woe
The screen offers relief from a world of woe
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PETER KEOUGH
| January 09, 2009
The Jane Austen Book Club
Jane would find another movie
Robin Swicord’s film posits a book club of six Californians meeting once a month to discuss Jane Austen’s novels.
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JEFFREY GANTZ
| September 19, 2007
War zones
Fall films face terror at home and abroad
The party’s over. Time for the lessons to begin.
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PETER KEOUGH
| September 12, 2007
Beyond the Gates
It's weepy on the other side of the fence
As the end credits roll on Michael Caton-Jones’s film, the latest to deal with the Rwandan genocide, it’s hard not to tear up.
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BRETT MICHEL
| March 29, 2007
Spring loaded
Working out the kinks
It’s spring, and Hollywood has to get the kinks out of its system before it can focus on the business at hand: the sequels of summer.
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PETER KEOUGH
| March 12, 2007
Blood and Chocolate
You'll howl
Shape shifters or werewolves have always required crafty cinematic sleight of hand.
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TOM MEEK
| January 31, 2007
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