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Review: Not Easily Broken

Bill Duke's Not Easily Broken
 It's an uneven yet affecting effort, clotted with cliché and stereotype early on but becoming confluent and even provocative as it places a salient spin on responsibility, race, and going the distance.
By: TOM MEEK  |  January 07, 2009

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Review: Revolutionary Road

Sam Mendes's not so Revolutionary Road
It's a masterful, devastating portrait of a marriage crumbling and a merciless critique of the torpor and predictability of 1950's suburbia.
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  December 30, 2008

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Review: The Wrestler

Aronofsky, Rourke make The Wrestler a champ
Despite the bleak scenario, this is Aronofsky's funniest film.
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  December 24, 2008

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Review: The Reader

Tiresome and callow
It's Christmas, and our thoughts turn toward the Third Reich.
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  December 24, 2008

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Review: The Spirit

Awful on every level
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  December 23, 2008

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Review: Valkyrie with Tom Cruise

You know the bad guys win, so what's the point?
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  December 24, 2008

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Review: Bedtime Stories

Sandler reassures his audience
Adam Sandler returns to his simpering manchild persona in this witless ode to "imagination" directed by Adam Shankman.
By: BETSY SHERMAN  |  December 23, 2008

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Review: Marley & Me

Banal entertainment
Will Jennifer Aniston ever get a good film role?
By: BRETT MICHEL  |  December 23, 2008

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Review: The Human Condition

Kobayashi's 10-hour epic
Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi (1916-1996) always stood up to the established order
By: BRETT MICHEL  |  December 22, 2008

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Review: Gran Torino

Cuddly Clint?
Gran Torino is vintage Eastwood
By: GERALD PEARY  |  December 17, 2008

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Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Age before beauty
The film evokes the mystery and pathos of a life lived. In reverse.
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  January 06, 2009

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Review: Seven Pounds with Will Smith

A gimmicky tale annoyingly told
Will Smith's previous film with director Gabriele Muccino, The Pursuit of Happyness, was a tale well told. Their new one is a gimmicky tale annoyingly told.
By: BETSY SHERMAN  |  January 06, 2009

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Review: The Day the Earth Stood Still

We're doomed
The scene set in McDonald's makes sense, unlike the rest of the plot.
By: BRETT MICHEL  |  December 17, 2008

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Review: Yes Man with Jim Carrey

The correct answer is "No"
Once the one-note joke's been established, everything else follows with plodding, mechanical predictability.
By: BRETT MICHEL  |  December 16, 2008

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Review: The Tale of Despereaux

A glorified hunk of cheese
This animated mouse epic aspires to grand scale but falters in its execution.
By: TOM MEEK  |  December 16, 2008

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Review: Francois Ozon's Angel

Inglorious kitsch melodrama
But Ozon has a wry plan, for the conventionally told tale switches tone and becomes a very funny bodice ripper itself.
By: GERALD PEARY  |  December 16, 2008

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Review: Ciao

A most gentle and civil gay film
The set-up in Yen Tan's most gentle and civil of gay films is that Dallas twentysomething Mark dies in a car accident just as his year-long Italian e-mail flirtation, Andrea (Alessandro Calza), is due to visit him from Genoa.
By: GERALD PEARY  |  December 16, 2008

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Review: Delgo

Somewhat less impressive than the Geico gecko
In a far-away animated land resembling Middle-earth by way of George Lucas's Clone Wars , two races clash over a common territory in a situation akin to the current conflict in the Middle East.
By: TOM MEEK  |  December 16, 2008

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Review: Doubt

Nun story
John Patrick Shanley's Doubt on screen
By: CAROLYN CLAY  |  December 12, 2008

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Review: Frost/Nixon

Tricky flick
Dick gets off easy in Frost/Nixon
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  December 12, 2008
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