All Reviews articles – Page 580
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Friday The 13th
Dir Marcus Nispel. US. 2009. 97mins. Hollywood's latest 're-imagining' of a video era horror classic is a muscular but pretty unimaginative take on the films that turned hockey-masked, machete-wielding anti-hero Jason Voorhees into a slasher icon. Director Marcus Nispel and producer Michael Bay, who successfully updated The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ...
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Confessions Of A Shopaholic
Dir: PJ Hogan. US. 2009. 104mins.Fashion magnate Coco Chanel once declared that luxury is the opposite of vulgarity but in the current economic climate such conspicuous consumption can seem somewhat tacky, or even a sign of mental psychosis, especially when a character opines, 'No man will ever treat you as ...
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ReviewsEmpire Of Silver (Baiyin Diguo)
Dir: Christina Yao. China-Taiwan-Hong Kong. 2009. 115mins.Savings and loans crises meld with an unrequited love story in Taiwanese stage director Christina Yao’s first feature. Set in mainland China around 1899, this odd epic has a polished and well-crafted look - it’s clear that reams of research ...
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It Might Get Loud
Dir: Davis Guggenheim. US. 2009. 97mins.When you get down to it, that much-idolised object the electric guitar is basically a plank of wood, some strings and a chunk of circuitry. It’s the person wielding it who makes the noise: that’s the level-headed gist of It Might ...
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ReviewsEccentricities Of A Blond-Haired Girl (Singularidades De Uma Rapariga Loura)
Dir: Manoel de Oliveira. Portugal-France-Spain. 2009. 63mins.
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ReviewsThe Inheritors (Los Herederos)
Dir: Eugenio Polgovsky. Mexico. 2009. 90mins.Eugenio Polgovsky’s remarkable documentary, made on a budget of just $35,000, is a day-by-day study of the lives of several groups of child labourers in rural Mexico. Filmed in the sort of up-close detail that only one-man productions shot over long ...