
Paul Matwychuk
http://www.vueweekly.com
Movies reviews only
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Mississippi Burning (1988) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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Talk Radio (1988) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Jan 04, 2005
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An Actor's Revenge (1963) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Jan 04, 2005
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The Return (2003) |
The Return feels like an experiment designed to find out how much basic plot information you can withhold from an audience and still have an interesting movie. - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Jan 04, 2005
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Saw (2004) |
Capped by a final plot twist so insane I almost feel obligated to salute it out of respect for its sheer lunacy. - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Jan 04, 2005
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Birth (2004) |
Birth is the beigest, most suffocatingly tasteful film I've seen since Woody Allen's Another Woman. - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Jan 04, 2005
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Stage Beauty (2004) |
Stage Beauty pretends to be a celebration of acting, but in fact it's saying you'll be happiest if you go through life playing the most conventional role you can find. - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Jan 04, 2005
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Closer (2004) |
To quote the haunting Damien Rice song that bookends the film, you can't take your eyes off of it. - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Jan 04, 2005
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The Machinist (2004) |
You can't stop thinking about how awful Bale looks-partly because his transformation is so unnerving, but also because the film doesn't give you anything else to think about. - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Jan 04, 2005
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Gozu (2003) |
Anyone in the mood for a gender-bending yakuza comedy/horror film and who doesn't mind seeing a lot of bodily fluids spewing onto the screen ought to give Gozu a whirl. - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Jan 04, 2005
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Enduring Love (2004) |
The notion that being stalked can lead to a spiritual rebirth is pretty goofy, but Enduring Love is skillful enough to make it seem like a reasonable proposition. - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Jan 04, 2005
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Nobody's Fool (1994) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Jan 04, 2005
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Kinsey (2004) |
I don't think you could ask more from a biopic than what Bill Condon accomplishes with Kinsey. - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Jan 04, 2005
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The Pianist (2002) |
There's a rock-solid authenticity to every scene of The Pianist that seems utterly unquestionable to me. - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Jan 23, 2003
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Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002) |
Standing in the Shadows of Motown takes one of the great unknown stories in music history and translates it to the screen in the blandest way possible. - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Jan 19, 2003
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Evelyn (2002) |
I can't say as I was surprised by a single scene in Evelyn, and yet, despite all the manipulations of the script, the film is so sincere and good-hearted that it won me over anyway. - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Jan 19, 2003
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Margaret Cho - Notorious C.H.O. (2002) |
Notorious C.H.O. made me laugh as long and hard as any movie I've seen this year. - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Jan 19, 2003
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The Hot Chick (2002) |
Couldn't someone take Rob Schneider and have him switch bodies with a funny person? - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Jan 19, 2003
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Happy Times (2001) |
Happy Times sounds like any of the dozens of heart-tugging comedies that Miramax seems to release every month, but it has such a peculiar premise and the central performance by Zhao Benshan is so winning that Zhang gets away with it by the skin of - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Jan 19, 2003
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Little Otik (2000) |
Like many Disney films, Little Otik is based on a classic European folktale, but while Disney cleans these stories up into candy-coloured moral fables ready to be adapted into breakfast cereals and ice shows, Svankmajer eagerly plunges into their d - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Jan 19, 2003
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Audition (1999) |
The Audition DVD includes a director's audio commentary for the final half-hour. You may as well turn the commentary on-you'll be clamping your eyes shut for most of it anyway. - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Jan 19, 2003
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Bad Lieutenant (1992) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Turtle Diary (1985) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Barcelona (1994) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Virtuosity (1995) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Being Human (1994) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Cabin Boy (1994) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Masquerade (1988) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Greed (1924) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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The Producers (1968) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Bound for Glory (1976) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Matinee (1993) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Twist and Shout (1984) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Johnny Handsome (1989) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Pet Sematary (1989) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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The Postman (1994) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Bad (1977) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Liquid Sky (1982) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Hoosiers (1986) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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The Truth About Charlie (2002) |
Never do you get the feeling that anybody is in any real danger, or that there's any real attraction between Newton and Wahlberg-and when you're making a caper film that doesn't have any suspense or romance in it, there's not a hell of a lot else left for - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Heaven (2002) |
Arthouse hokum. - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Far From Heaven (2002) |
The remarkable thing about Far From Heaven is what an emotional experience it is -- this is no arid, intellectual exercise but a genuinely heartbreaking story. - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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The Grey Zone (2001) |
It's hard to imagine anybody ever being "in the mood" to view a movie as harrowing and painful as The Grey Zone, but it's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it's started. - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Igby Goes Down (2002) |
Writer/director Burr Steers displays a pitch-perfect sense of the way Igby is at once repelled by his family and his upbringing and yet an unmistakable product of it. - Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Latin Boys Go to Hell (1997) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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Suspicion (1941) |
- Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2002
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