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PETER KEOUGH

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Review: I Love You, Man

Paul Rudd and Jason Segel subvert stereotypes
I Love You, Man starts up where He's Just Not into You left off, with some poor emasculated bastard being sacrificed to some clinging, needy, borderline psychotic bitch at the altar.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 20, 2009

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Hope springs infernal

Brimstone and buddy movies are on the Hollywood agenda
Given the current economic climate, spring this year is a season more of dread than of hope for change.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 16, 2009

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Review: Crossing Over

Slickly political, while still offering hugs and tears and gratuitous nudity.
Wayne Kramer's immigration melodrama fits into the glibly schematic, socially conscious multi-narrative niche usually filled by Paul Haggis.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 11, 2009

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Review: 12

Feel free to replace "Angry Men" with "Hammy Actors"
Never known for his restraint, Mikhalkov takes kitschy liberties with the stark drama about a jury deliberating the fate of a minority youth who's being tried for murder.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 11, 2009

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Review: Chocolate

Giving us a superhero we can believe in
Thai filmmaker Prachya ( Ong Bak ) Pinkaew's Chocolate opens with a statement saying it hopes "to be an encouragement to parents and the unconditional love given to the special children of the world."
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 11, 2009

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Review: The Kindly Ones

Inside the Reich
Those put off by the soft-pedaling of the SS in the movie adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's The Reader might be wary of Jonathan Littell's memoir of fictional war criminal Maximilien Aue.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 11, 2009

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Review: Gomorrah

Gomorrah tells tales of initiation and disillusionment, all extrapolated from anecdotes in Roberto Saviano's book.
Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah is a jolting and utterly original take on the gangster movie.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 25, 2009

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Interview: Roberto Saviano

Fire and brimstone from Gomorrah 's author
Roberto Saviano knew what his mission was a dozen or so years ago, when he was 16.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 27, 2009

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Review: The Secret of the Grain

Food for thought
The secret of The Grain is patience
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 19, 2009

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Oscar predictions: Liberal gilt

Oscar wants to be a Millionaire
It's like a fairy tale for Hollywood liberals.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 18, 2009

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Review: The International

Bank failure
In lieu of action, character development, or plot, The International offers architecture.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 10, 2009

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Review: He's Just Not That Into You

Reduces both men and women to shrill stereotypes
And why isn't he? Could it be because you're needy, nagging, and possibly psychotic?
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 04, 2009

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Review: ''The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2009''

Varying degrees of schmaltz and subtlety
As with Best Picture, the themes of death, aging, and difficult love dominate the two Shorts Oscar categories this year.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 04, 2009

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The parent trap

Coraline pushes familiar buttons
Coraline pushes familiar buttons
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 06, 2009

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Review: Lark and Termite

Total immersion
"Language Immersion" is the name of a program set up by the US Army in Korea just prior to the North's invasion of the South.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  January 29, 2009

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Review: Wendy and Lucy

It's a dog's life
It's a dog's life in Wendy and Lucy
By PETER KEOUGH  |  January 20, 2009

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Review: Timecrimes

Bumbling farce gives way to existential horror
It all started with a simple act of voyeurism. Or did it?
By PETER KEOUGH  |  January 20, 2009

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Interview: Kelly Reichardt

The director on the economics of Wendy and Lucy
Kelly Reichardt on the economics of Wendy and Lucy
By PETER KEOUGH  |  January 20, 2009

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2009 Oscar predictions

Martyr complex
This year the Oscars will honor the men who suffer for our sins and the women who don't wear make-up.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 11, 2009

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Review: Waltz With Bashir

Dancing on the edge
The so-called anti-war-film genre has lately "distinguished" itself with a flurry of Iraq-war flops featuring earnest polemics.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  January 13, 2009
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