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81%
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Countdown to Zero (2010) |
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'Countdown to Zero' is a sincere editorial with images. That, however, does not make cinema. "
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 24, 2010
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50%
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The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2010) |
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It's the idea here that should hold the interest of some. Most, however, will see mere excessive sicko, not 'Psycho,' unpleasantness for the sake of unpleasantness. "
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Apr 28, 2010
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40%
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Who Do You Love? (2010) |
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Recreated performances backing the more than nostalgic music of the era are worth the ticket, but the rest is more borscht than history."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Apr 9, 2010
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62%
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When You're Strange (2010) |
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Somewhat murky in terms of technical quality and of its central figure's chameleon more than Lizard King persona."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Apr 9, 2010
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71%
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Waking Sleeping Beauty (2010) |
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This eighty-six-minute feature falls far from the enchantment most of the public will enter expecting."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 26, 2010
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0%
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Stolen (2010) |
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Not pretentious in its implications, 'Stolen' nevertheless depends excessively on coincidence, on unlikely connections and not clearly differentiated characters."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 10, 2010
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95%
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Harlan - Im Schatten von Jud Süss (Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Seuss) (2010) |
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Director Moeller's hands-off approach results in too many undigested faces and cross-opinions for the majority unfamiliar with director Harlan."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 4, 2010
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97%
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A Prophet (Un prophete) (2010) |
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The stuffed plot of this blue-hued prison drama spins out of control, and the director's 'world as it is, as it plays out,' complicates itself too much."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Feb 25, 2010
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50%
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Blood Done Sign My Name (2010) |
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Slides into unexceptional melodrama, as the films two threads distract from, rather than reinforce, each other."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Feb 18, 2010
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22%
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Saint John of Las Vegas (2010) |
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There's nothing much heavenly to find in 'Saint John of Las Vegas.'"
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Feb 5, 2010
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86%
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Red Riding Trilogy () |
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The difficulty shows in organizing four novels into three independent, cross-referential films, for Tony Grisoni's 'Red Riding Trilogy' scripts leave loose ends."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Feb 3, 2010
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84%
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
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Those previously in the dark about the story from books or films will remain so, for the 153 minutes make little clear aside from a Be-Sure-To-See-The-Sequel conclusion."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Jan 18, 2010
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83%
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Bright Star (2009) |
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The plot doesn't have much to go on, so much is imagined but not demonstrably true, with acting, production design and period costume hopefully covering for accuracy."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Jan 14, 2010
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90%
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Fish Tank (2010) |
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'Fish Tank' has a spontaneous quality -- but it also, unfortunately, leaves us with a sense that things which matter are going nowhere."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Jan 14, 2010
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48%
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Antichrist (2009) |
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'Antichrist' begins promisingly for the genre but descends into schlock/slasher-school stuff."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Jan 13, 2010
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70%
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The Last Station (2010) |
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Both stars holler histrionics to the hilt, but nowhere is any literary effort, much less genius, on display in 'The Last Station.'"
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Jan 9, 2010
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82%
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Alphaville (1965) |
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The self-conscious didacticism of 'Alphaville' sinks its ship."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Jan 4, 2010
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26%
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The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2009) |
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Far from advertised 'lush, poetic language,' the film's dialogue is pancake flat, including verbal sparring."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Dec 30, 2009
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79%
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Politist, adj. (Police, Adjective) (2009) |
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The film's languid construction mirrors content, the dull everyday of real police routine rather than the usual police procedural."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Dec 20, 2009
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73%
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Flags of Our Fathers (2006) |
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Sequences fade into the pack and make it difficult to differentiate one player from the others, much less remember them after the lights go up."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Oct 4, 2009
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81%
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Disgrace (2008) |
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Individual or societal in thrust, 'Disgrace' is hampered by a lack of resolution and the impenetrability of motivations."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Sep 19, 2009
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48%
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Taking Woodstock (2009) |
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Captures a lost innocence -- but the toneless monosyllables and "very cool's" and "groovy's" grow quickly vapid or spacey."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 27, 2009
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76%
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Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) |
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Alas for 'Five Minutes of Heaven,' confrontations seem rigged and resolution is tacked on in minutes."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 20, 2009
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74%
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I Sell the Dead (2008) |
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Bits strike out in every which way but are not long, deep or effective, so 'I Sell the Dead' develops neither momentum nor personality."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 9, 2009
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68%
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Funny People (2009) |
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Bits strike out in every which way but are not long, deep or effective, so 'I Sell the Dead' develops neither momentum nor personality."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 6, 2009
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87%
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Flammen & Citronen (Flame & Citron) (The Flame and the Lemon) (2008) |
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This noir in underlit blacks and blues grows too complex for its own good."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 29, 2009
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29%
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Deadgirl (2008) |
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With a slight hint of developing into more than a teen-pleaser gorefest, 'Deadgirl' instead goes for the jugular and splatters blood."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 23, 2009
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76%
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Tropical Malady (2005) |
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Camera work in the first half of 'Tropical Malady' appears jumpy and interrupted by confusing cuts and artsy tricks."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 12, 2009
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83%
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Nollywood Babylon (2008) |
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'Nollywood Babylon' teases, for its themes are interesting but, too many of them brought up, they do not get the incisive treatment each deserves."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 9, 2009
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54%
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Surveillance (2009) |
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The film's late, unprepared-for perversity turnabout undoes what has gone before."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 25, 2009
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79%
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The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) |
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Surface gloss is what you get in this caper-romance."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted May 21, 2009
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73%
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Rudo y Cursi (2009) |
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Subtitles, pervasive obscenity, macho mother insults and some nudity/sex probably will not draw in the viewers who made a family hit of Bend It Like Beckham."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted May 7, 2009
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44%
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The Limits of Control (2009) |
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The tiring repetitiousness of 'Limits of Control' may prove too much for many viewers."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted May 1, 2009
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74%
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American Violet (2009) |
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No suspense is developed, and low-income housing and women's house of detention alike are prettied up without any feeling for gritty reality."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Apr 17, 2009
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88%
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Forbidden Lie$ (Forbidden Lies) (2007) |
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Sucked in by her subject, the director gets too close for objective necessary cutting."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Apr 3, 2009
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34%
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Alien Trespass (2009) |
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'Alien Trespass' is neither soulless nor bad. Yet it does not improve on the sources that inspire it, so why not watch them instead?"
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Apr 2, 2009
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8%
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New York City Serenade (2007) |
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Uninspired performances and a lack of chemistry fail to project whatever has brought and kept the film's odd couple together."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 12, 2009
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The Spanish Earth (This Spanish Earth) (1937) |
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A lion's share of the fault lies in the narration, the kind of one-sided screen advocacy journalism that has resurfaced in contemporary non-fictions and based-ons."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 8, 2009
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14%
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The Spirit (2008) |
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To be fair to those embarrassed onscreen in 'The Spirit,' this movie's dialogue would tax the thespian talents of anyone."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Dec 24, 2008
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65%
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Made in Jamaica (2006) |
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Singers, instrumentalists, bands and composers are poorly identified by ornate brief printed titles, only two or three familiar names resonating for a general public."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Dec 20, 2008
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67%
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Muhammad Ali: The Greatest (1974) |
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The three fights covered in this documentary are not pictured at all beyond a very few grainy stills."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Dec 11, 2008
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25%
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Ciao (2008) |
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The plotline of 'Ciao' is trite -- and the filmmaking itself drags."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Dec 4, 2008
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94%
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Milk (2008) |
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With neither subtlety nor depth, 'Milk' does no service to its group cause or individual subject."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Nov 26, 2008
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11%
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Lake City (2008) |
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The filmmakers rely excessively on a repeated dreamlike flashback and on foliage, fields and sunsets to remind us 'we are all part of a greater universe.'"
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Nov 20, 2008
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Jesus Politics (2008) |
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The caucus, primary and institution interviews with campaign workers, churchgoers and their leaders, are unexceptional stuff."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Nov 5, 2008
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65%
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Plus Tard (One Day You'll Understand) (Later) (2008) |
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Accurate in imaging the mystery of man's not fully knowable past, 'One Day You'll Understand' leaves too much distant, unsolved and confused."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Oct 30, 2008
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91%
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Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains (2008) |
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Film festival awards and media encomiums notwithstanding, 'Stranded' does not come to grips with what we think of as 'miracle.'"
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Oct 22, 2008
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72%
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La Mujer sin Cabeza (The Headless Woman) (2008) |
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With its interesting but unresolved premise and loosely related parts, 'The Headless Woman" fails to coalesce into an audience-friendly whole."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Oct 8, 2008
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62%
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Changeling (2008) |
"
'Changeling' sticks to what was, and is, ugly and real but does not do justice to the nightmare."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Oct 7, 2008
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66%
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Che: Part One (The Argentine) (2009) |
"
'Che' fails to image a being of flesh who elicits empathy."
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Oct 6, 2008
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