All Reviews articles – Page 586
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Dir: Steve Carr . US. 2009. 87mins. A depressingly strained comedic riff on Die Hard, Paul Blart: Mall Cop mixes fat jokes, a sappy romantic subplot and hostages-in-a-mall action elements without much verve or wit. As his first starring vehicle after playing second-fiddle to bigger box-office names in recent films, ...
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ReviewsThe One Man Village (Samaan Bildayaa)
Documentary. Dir. Simon El Habre. Lebanon, 2008. 86 mins.
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Dubai Film Festival Round-up
KhamsaDir/scr: Karim Dridi. Fr. 2008 95 minsAn intriguing and often compelling (if sometimes meandering) feature shot with a cast of uniformly effective non-actor children, Khamsa is set in the Roma community outside Marseilles. This obviously conjures up images of Tony Gatlif (who has a music credit), but this plays it ...
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The Spirit
Dir: Frank Miller. US. 2008. 108 mins. Using the same green screen technology which created stylised films of his comic books Sin City and 300, Frank Miller's first solo effort as a director is an entertaining, if forgettable, cinematic imagining of Will Eisner's classic superhero The Spirit. Strictly two-dimensional, despite ...
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