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Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Dir. Dave Filoni. US. 2008. 98 mins Action-packed and visually impressive it may be, but CG-animated feature Star Wars: The Clone Wars still feels like what it essentially is - a supercharged TV pilot designed to help George Lucas' venerable Star Wars franchise make the transition from the big to ...
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Dir: Sanaa Hamri. US. 2008. 118 mins.A sequel to the 2005 big-screen adaptation of Ann Brashares' novel about a quartet of young girls who discover a pair of jeans that mysteriously fits each of them perfectly, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 is a painted-within-the-lines drama that skates by ...
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The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor
Dir: Rob Cohen . US. 2008. 107 mins.Nine years have passed since The Mummy, a moderately-charming period action-adventure yarn starring Brendan Fraser, but it seems even longer after viewing Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor, a dispiritingly witless sequel with very little personality but a lot of frenetic comic banter and ...
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Swing Vote
Dir. Joshua Michael Stern, US, 2008, 120 minutes.Swing Vote is a motivational effort whichlurches between homespun sentimentality and topical satire, with the moral that echoes the American mythology that one vote can make a difference, even if it is cast by a beer-drinking boob who has just been laid off ...
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Step Brothers
Dir: Adam McKay . US. 2008. 95 mins.Playing like an overlong DVD version of one of his earlier, funnier, PG-13 films, the R-rated Step Brothers finds Will Ferrell diving into raunchier, coarser terrain, resulting in a movie that feels helplessly in thrall to its own foul language and sex jokes. ...
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Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging
Dir. Gurinder Chadha. 2008. UK . 100 mins.Relighting Sixteen Candles in the UK for a new generation, Gurinder Chadha's Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging is an amiable if fairly anodyne teen outing which will face a tough challenge breaking out from its girlie demographic. This target audience, however, will be ...
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The X-Files: I Want To Believe
Dir. Chris Carter US. 2008. 104 mins. Six years after the end of the long-running TV series - and ten after the first movie spin-off -- writer-director Chris Carter and stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson re-open the X Files with a nicely dark and dense supernatural thriller which Fox ...
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ReviewsThe First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life (Le premier jour du reste de ta vie)
Dir. Remi Bezancon. Fr, 2008. 114 min
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Hand of the Headless Man (Ou est la main de l'homme sans tete')
Dirs. Guillaume and Stephane Malandrin. Belgium-France-Holland. 2007. 103 minsWhen an Olympic-level Belgian diver played by Cecile De France emerges from a coma, elements from several film genres - all of them interesting - seem out to get her in Hand of the Headless Man. De France's sober, nuanced performance anchors ...
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Brideshead Revisited (2007)
Dir: Julian Jarrold. UK . 2008. 120 mins.Evelyn Waugh's greatest novel gets a respectable new film treatment from a team of Britain 's biggest names, although it will inevitably remain in the shadow of the 1981 TV series which to this day is a global symbol of the lost glamour ...
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Space Chimps
Dir: Kirk De Micco. US. 2008. 81 mins.An amiable animated tale in which a group of chimpanzees is sent to a faraway planet to test its viability for life but ends up freeing an enslaved alien populace, Space Chimps is, in terms of plotting, a throwback to the animation of ...
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Terribly Happy - Hanrik Ruben Ganz’s remarkably confident but misanthropic essay on shared culpability and small town mentality features an emotionally disturbed cop sent as punishment to a remote location, surrendering whatever shreds of decency he thought he still had for the murky double-standards of his new locale. Unpleasantly sinister ...
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Dorothy
Dir. Agnes Merlet. 2008. France. 102 min. An isolated Irish island whose wary residents don't like outsiders - or any developments in interior decorating since 1920 or so - is the creepy setting for supernatural thriller Dorothy, Agnes Merlet's first film in 11 years. Placing a female psychiatrist from the ...