All Reviews articles – Page 592
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Giovanna's Father (Il Papa di Giovanna)
Dir/scr: Pupi Avati. Italy, 2008. 104 mins.Easily watchable but eminently forgettable, this period melodrama about a protective father besotted by his deranged daughter is bound to go the way of most previous Pupi Avati films: a respectable career in Italy followed by indifference elsewhere, despite featuring an emotionally-charged performance by ...
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The Women
Dir: Diane English. US. 2008. 114 mins.Diane English, the creator of hit 80s TV sitcom Murphy Brown, set herself a tall order for her theatrical directing debut - remaking George Cukor's classic 1939 ensemble starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell. So long in the making that it feels ...
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ReviewsStill Walking (Aruitemo, Aruitemo)
Dir. Hirokazu Kore-Eda. Japan. 2008. 114 mins.Adapted by Kore-Eda from a novel he wrote, evidently inspired by the death of his parents a few years back, Still Walking is a quiet, almost whispered picture in which nothing much seems to happen and may well be a ...
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ReviewsPandora's Box (Pandoranin Kutusu)
Dir. Yesim Ustaoglu. Turkey/France/Germany/Belgium. 2008. 112 mins.
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Nothing But the Truth
Director: Rod Lurie. US. 2008. 107mins.A dramatic fictionalization thatconflates the political scandal of former covert intelligence officerValerie Plame and controversial journalist Judith Miller, Rod Lurie's Nothing But the Truthis a miscalculated piece damaged by poor direction, mediocre writingand performances that feel consistently misguided and off-key. Lurie (The Contender) is acontemporary ...
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Reviews$9.99
Dir. Tatia Rosenthal.Israel/Australia, 2008. 78 mins.Dealing with such lightweight issues as ‘the meaning of life’ and ‘happiness’ may seem a bit excessive for a stop-motion animated film weighing in at less than 78 minutes. But the film doesn’t take itself that seriously after all, defusing some ...
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ReviewsThe Other Man
Director: Richard Eyre. UK/USA. 2008. 90mins.Richard Eyre is fast becoming the new master of unhealthy obsession. After Judi Dench’s creepily predatory school teacher inNotes On A Scandal, it is now the turn of Liam Neeson to play a fool for love inThe Other Man.Well-heeled literary adaptation ...
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ReviewsThe Stoning Of Soraya M
Dir. Cyrus Nowrasteh. US. 2008. 116mins.This harrowing, if cinematically flawed, account of a male mob’s murder of a young wife and mother according to Shariah law in an Iranian village in 1986, just a few years after Khomeini took power, takes on particular relevance today. Exposes ...
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ReviewsUncertainty
Dir. Scott McGehee, David Siegel. US. 2008. 101 minsRegular collaborators McGehee and Siegel have hit what is called in baseball a double-a compliment, that—with Uncertainty. In the past, their provocative films have veered toward the academic, as with the study of amnesia in the modern Cain-and-Abel ...
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