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BRETT MICHEL

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Sharing an Apple

Adapt or Die Dept.
Anyone with even a passing familiarity with the storied Red Sox/Yankees rivalry will tell you that Bostonians sure can hold a grudge.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  May 21, 2008

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Speed Racer

Another faulty family film
When Andy and Larry Wachowski pitched The Matrix to producer Joel Silver, they showed him the seminal anime Ghost in the Shell , claiming their ambition was to re-create it in live action.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  May 07, 2008

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Brotherly amore
“A Fascist in the family is always handy.” Unless it’s a family of leftists in a small Italian town during the turbulent “anni di piombo” (“years of lead”).
By BRETT MICHEL  |  April 23, 2008

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Vocation or vacation?

Honoring independent cinema’s ‘tour guide’
This past Wednesday, the fifth Coolidge Award, honoring a “film artist whose work advances the spirit of original and challenging filmmaking,” was bestowed on Jeremy Thomas.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  May 01, 2008

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The Visitor

Unforgettable direction
Writer/director Tom McCarthy, expanding on the theme of unexpected friendships that propelled 2003’s The Station Agent , is a subtle artist, and that trait extends to Jenkins.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  April 16, 2008

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Visitation rights

Hidden in plain sight
“In terms of the general public, most people I know have never seen the inside of a detention center."
By BRETT MICHEL  |  April 16, 2008

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Nim's Island

Ubiquitous Abigail Breslin in a mildly diverting adventure
Nim is home-schooled, her covert classroom an uncharted isle she inhabits with her scientist father, Jack.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  April 09, 2008

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Chaos Theory

A plot centered around one man's penis
Are you ready for the Truth? Here goes: it’s the name given by over-wound human clock Frank to his penis.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  April 09, 2008

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Double down and Hollywood up

Playing the facts against the fiction of 21
Sometimes Hollywood gets it right; sometimes Hollywood . . . ah, elaborates .
By BRETT MICHEL  |  March 26, 2008

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Shutter

Not scary and a measly PG-13
How frightening is this? A vengeful spirit begins turning up in pictures taken by a pair of newlyweds, ruining many a wedding and honeymoon photo.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  March 25, 2008

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Run, Fat Boy, Run

Cold feet and Nikes
Not even new leather can hide the sweat and desperation of this non-starting shill.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  March 25, 2008

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21

A novel transformation
An Asian leading man is, it seems, too big a gamble for Hollywood’s myopic big players.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  March 25, 2008

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Drillbit Taylor

Leftovers from the '80s
Early on in this Owen Wilson vehicle, someone says, “I got an old saying for you: you can’t polish a turd.” Indeed.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  March 19, 2008

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10,000 B.C.

Far out "history"
A really small continent, since the Anglo hero, D’leh (Steven Strait), is able to traverse its (flat?) surface in a matter of days without so much as needing a shave.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  March 12, 2008

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Be Kind Rewind

A shambling charmer
This isn’t Gondry’s best work — it’s too unstructured, labored when it begs to soar.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  February 20, 2008

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Shaggy frog

Interview: Michel Gondry goes lo-fi
Michel Gondry is not a household name.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  February 20, 2008

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Science and fiction

Hollywood teleports to MIT
It wasn’t all hyperventilation.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  February 15, 2008

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Jumper

An 88-minute flop
Life and this movie are too short to have to put up with the little shit.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  February 13, 2008

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Strange Wilderness

Lazy, lazy, lazy
Gaulke and Wolf (the actual ones) might have greater difficulty saving their careers.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  February 06, 2008

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The Eye

Two directers and still unoriginal
“I see . . . ,” says formerly blind concert violinist Sydney Wells (Jessica Alba, not believable as a musician even while visionless).
By BRETT MICHEL  |  February 06, 2008
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