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PETER KEOUGH

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Sin city

Sex and drugs rock the Boston Festival of Films from Iran
Sex and drugs rock the Boston Festival of Films from Iran
By PETER KEOUGH  |  November 07, 2008

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Interview: Charlie Kaufman

Straight poop
People either love or hate Charlie Kaufman.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  November 04, 2008

B List rewind

 Boston Phoenix film critics salute The Fly , King Creole , and The Conversation in The National Society of Film Critics latest tome.
 Boston Phoenix film critics salute The Fly , King Creole , and The Conversation in The National Society of Film Critics latest tome.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 31, 2008

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White on black

Lance Hammer’s Delta dawn
Lance Hammer’s minimalist melodrama pushes William Faulkner into the 21st century or relocates Russell Banks from the Northeast to the Mississippi Delta.  
By PETER KEOUGH  |  November 04, 2008

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I’ve Loved You So Long

A crass and pretentious soap opera
So which portrayal of a victimized woman will win an Oscar this year?  
By PETER KEOUGH  |  November 04, 2008

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Interview: Lance Hammer

Delta force
Some filmmakers seek to penetrate the mystery of human existence through cinema.  
By PETER KEOUGH  |  November 04, 2008

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Mother courage

Angelina Jolie goes on a tear in Changeling
How many ways can Angelina Jolie cry?  
By PETER KEOUGH  |  November 05, 2008

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Breakfast With Scot

Chaste, and lacking wit
Laurie Lind’s fuses Three Men and a Baby, La Vie en Rose , and every other gay rom-com ever made.  
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 21, 2008

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W. gets a B

Josh Brolin prevails over Oliver Stone’s shaky portrait
Josh Brolin prevails over Oliver Stone’s shaky portrait
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 15, 2008

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What Just Happened

Half-baked insider parody
“There isn’t a film there,” Ben tells the screenwriter. Sounds like What Just Happened .  
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 28, 2008

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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

A slight but sometimes affecting trifle
The relationship between fathers and daughters is complicated enough without being further strained by Mao’s Cultural Revolution.  
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 15, 2008

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Putting up W’s

Screen depictions beat around the Bush
How is it that the least popular and possibly worst chief executive in American history has inspired no lasting impersonations?  
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 15, 2008

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Candide camera

Mike Leigh lightens up in Happy-Go-Lucky
There might be a dark side to Poppy (Sally Hawkins), the driving force behind Mike Leigh’s new film Happy-Go-Lucky , but damned if I could find it.  
By PETER KEOUGH  |  January 12, 2009

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Miracle at St. Anna

Has Spike Lee lost his way?
What is the Miracle at St. Anna? Maybe that a filmmaker capable of the eloquence of When the Levees Broke could make such an incoherent movie.  
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 01, 2008

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How To Lose Friends & Alienate People

Lesson learned, but no laughs
British comics Rich Gervais and Simon Pegg have attempted the jump to Hollywood, opting to squeeze their eccentric personae into a standard romantic comedy.  
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 01, 2008

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Flash of Genius

An unexciting, earnest homily
The title of Marc Abrahams’s first feature refers to the “eureka” moment that the US patent people insist must occur if an inventor is to prove that an idea is his own.  
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 01, 2008

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Flow

A somewhat wishy-washy exposé
Instead of goading us with bits and pieces of the doom-and-gloom picture, some documentarian should come up with a unified theory of why we’re all screwed.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  September 24, 2008

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Lakeview Terrace

Full of entrapping clichés
LaBute tries to engage issues of race, class, and gender in this potboiler, but his usual vitriol gives way to blood in the swimming pool.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  September 23, 2008

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Hounddog

A trite rehash of second-rate Southern Gothic
Those undaunted or attracted by the hysteria will wonder what the fuss is about as they discover that Hounddog’s biggest offense is Fanning’s renditions of the Elvis tune.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  September 24, 2008

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Choke

“Gag” might be a better title
Dotty old women, idiots in powder wigs, a fat guy beating off, and disgorged chunks of food — they aren’t as funny as you might think.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  September 23, 2008
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