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Latest reviews – Page 431
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Empire Of The Wolves (L'Empire Des Loups)
Dir. Chris Nahon, Fr. 2005. 128 min.L'Empire des Loups(The Empire of the Wolves) is another in a growing niche of moody, slickFrench action thrillers trying to compete with similar American and Asian fare.Adapted from a Jean-Christophe Grangenovel, as with the thriller CrimsonRivers and its sequel (all three starring Jean Reno), ...
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Men And Women
Dir: Claude Lelouch.France. 2005. 135 mins. Men And Women is an amalgamation of the first two parts inClaude Lelouch's E30 million trilogy Le Genre Humain designed for the export market and worldpremiered last week in Los Angeles at the City Of Lights, City Of Angels filmfestival. Of those two parts, ...
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The Amityville Horror
Dir: Andrew Douglas. US.2005. 89 mins.Michael Bay's low budget operation Platinum Dunes had asmash hit two years ago with its remake of seminal 1974 horror movie TheTexas Chainsaw Massacre and it should scorehit #2 with its remake of 1979 horror classic The Amityville Horror. Seasoned UK commercials director Andrew Douglasturns ...
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House Of D
Dir/scr: David Duchovny.US. 2004. 97mins.Cloying when it means tobe heartfelt, simplistic when it aims to be nostalgic, House Of Dconcerns a troubled artist who must come to terms with his past if he everhopes to get a handle on his life. In his feature writing and directorial debut,actor David Duchovny ...
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Words In Blue
Dir. Alain Corneau. Fr.2004. 114mins.Alain Corneau's WordsIn Blue, the veteran film-maker's first romance, promises much in its firsthalf, overcoming the initial obstacles of weak motivation to develop anintimate, sensitive relationship drama between a young girl who refuses tospeak and her single, emotionally stunted mum.But then the theme switchesfrom lack of ...
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ReviewsSahara
Dir: Breck Eisner. US. 2005. 124 mins.Sahara is a brave attempt by an independent company - Phillip Anschutz’s Anschutz Film Group - to launch a new action hero franchise, this one modeled on Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt character. The film is a lavishly mounted, old-fashioned adventure picture which pitches Pitt ...
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Fever Pitch
Dirs: Peter Farrelly,Bobby Farrelly. US. 2005. 103mins.Predictably, and not toopainfully, the Hollywood version of Nick Hornby's Fever Pitchsubstitutes baseball for football and a cutesy comic tone for the wistful moodof the British author's classic memoir about having 'measured out my lifein Arsenal fixtures.' The result is a slight but sweet ...
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Sometimes In April
Dir/scr: Raoul Peck.US-Rwa. 2005. 140mins.The biggest obstacle to SometimesIn April, Raoul Peck's worthy, emotionally-stirring and thought-provokingaccount of 1994's Rwandan massacre of the Tutsi minority lies, paradoxically,in the success of rival feature Hotel Rwanda.Sometimes In April is superior to Hotel Rwanda on severalfronts, including the fact that it has less of ...
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Silentium
Dir.Wolfgang Mumberger. Austria. 2004. 117mins.Unsubtle,blunt and brutal, Wolfgang Murberger's comedy thriller assaults Austria'sfavorite sacred cows one after the other with a relish whose rough charms willbe difficult to appreciate beyond German-language territories.Basedon the novel by Wolfgang Haas, Silentium is not so much a sequel as arepeat performance by one of ...
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The Interpreter
Dir Sydney Pollack.UK-US. 2005. 128mins.Like the United Nationsitself, The Interpreter has an ambitious remit. It's a politicalthriller set in the halls of the UN's previously-unfilmed East Manhattanedifice. It's firing star power with Nicole Kidman as a mysterious African-bornUN interpreter opposite Sean Penn as a recently bereaved federal agent,complete with romantic ...
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The Interpreter
Dir Sydney Pollack.UK-US. 2005. 128mins.Like the United Nationsitself, The Interpreter has an ambitious remit. It's a politicalthriller set in the halls of the UN's previously-unfilmed East Manhattanedifice. It's firing star power with Nicole Kidman as a mysterious African-bornUN interpreter opposite Sean Penn as a recently bereaved federal agent,complete with romantic ...
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Live And Become (Va, Vis Et Deviens)
Dir.Radu Mihaileanu. Fr-Is-It-Bel. 2005. 153mins.Highlyemotional but massively overlong, director Radu Mihaileanu's Live And Becometackles a burning issue of our time, the search for identity. Here he follows ablack Ethiopian Christian over the course of 20 years, from when, aged nine, heescapes amid a convoy of Falasha Jews being flown to ...
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Me And You And Everyone We Know
Dir/scr: Miranda July.US. 2005. 95mins.Performance/video artistMiranda July takes a captivating jump into the almost-mainstream with Me AndYou And Everyone We Know, a neighbourhood character study set in LosAngeles. Her sparse approach to drama puts the film squarely in theexperimental category, but she follows a traditional linear narrative withconverging storylines which ...
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Sin City
Dirs: Robert Rodriguez,Frank Miller. US. 2005. 124mins.In translating FrankMiller's Sin City series of graphic novels from one artistic medium toanother, co-director Robert Rodriguez - who felt so strongly about sharingcredit with the author that he resigned from the Directors' Guild of Americawhen they balked at dual acknowledgment - delivers what ...
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Valiant
Dir: Gary Chapman. US-UK.2005. 76mins.A charminglyold-fashioned tale of heroic Second World War carrier pigeons, Valiantis aiming for Chicken Run legs - but whether it truly has the wings tosoar internationally flies under a large question mark.Valiant is a promising effort from a largely British team(it was made on a purpose-built ...
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Boudu
Dir. Gerard Jugnot. Fr.2005. 104mins.Ridinghigh on a personal popularity consecrated by the runaway success of TheChorus, Gerard Jugnot now delivers his ninth feature film aswriter-director-actor. But his remake of the 1932 classic Boudu Saved FromDrowning is as ill advised as Down And Out In Beverly Hills, PaulMazursky's 1986 Hollywood makeover.Jugnot's ...
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Mariscos Beach (Crustaces Et Coquillages)
Dir: Olivier Ducastel& Jacques Martineau. Fr. 2005. 90mins.A world premiere in thePanorama section of the Berlin Film Festival this year, Crustaces EtCoqillages has a couple of English titles in play, Mariscos Beachbeing the one used at Berlin and Cote d'Azur the newly coined title forthe US release in the autumn. ...
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Mariscos Beach (Crustaces Et Coquillages)
Dir: Olivier Ducastel& Jacques Martineau. Fr. 2005. 90mins.A world premiere in thePanorama section of the Berlin Film Festival this year, Crustaces EtCoqillages has a couple of English titles in play, Mariscos Beachbeing the one used at Berlin and Cote d'Azur the newly coined title forthe US release in the autumn. ...
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Mariscos Beach (Crustaces Et Coquillages)
Dir: Olivier Ducastel& Jacques Martineau. Fr. 2005. 90mins.A world premiere in thePanorama section of the Berlin Film Festival this year, Crustaces EtCoqillages has a couple of English titles in play, Mariscos Beachbeing the one used at Berlin and Cote d'Azur the newly coined title forthe US release in the autumn. ...