Film Reviews
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Summertime (David Lean)
David Lean's 1955 picture-postcard romance confutes genre trappings to become a tender portrait of vulnerability and loneliness.
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The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)
A decade after its release, Sofia Coppola's engrossing teenage melodrama emerges as a seminal account of the emotional turbulence of adolescence.
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Air Force (Howard Hawks)
An influence on George Lucas' Star Wars series, Howard Hawks' weighty wartime propaganda film continually stalls in mid-air.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
David Fincher's directorial evolution continues with a visually breathtaking and contextually poignant interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's overlooked short story.
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JFK (Oliver Stone)
Oliver Stone's elephantine fusion of fact and fiction too often misses the target.
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Max Payne (John Moore)
One more bullet for the "games aren't art" crowd to load in their big, ignorant guns.
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Sex Drive (Sean Anders)
Ho-hum.
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Goya's Ghosts (Milos Forman)
Milos Forman's careless 19th century melodrama strangely tells us little about Goya or his art.
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The Filth and The Fury (Julien Temple)
Is Julien Temple's second Sex Pistols documentary merely pop-propoganda or a fitting historical rebalance?
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Milk (Gus Van Sant)
Performances and history strong in Gus Van Sant's Big Historical Biopic. Personal drama not as much so.
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