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PETER KEOUGH

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Review: Tetro

Francis Ford Coppola: still lost in a cinematic jungle
Francis Ford Coppola made one perfect picture, The Conversation , in 1974.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  June 16, 2009

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Review: O'Horten

Norwegian would
In Bent Hamer's sub-Arctic shaggy-dog story (with a real, non-shaggy dog), the vehicle for soon-to-be-retired Odd Horten, engineer for the Bergen-to-Oslo run, is not a flying house but a bullet train.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  June 11, 2009

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Review: Away We Go

Sam Mendes furthers his descent
Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida had a baby last December, their second, and congratulations for that. But not for this self-righteous, pseudo-hip, cutesy-wootsy, cringe-inducing screed.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  June 10, 2009

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Festival atmosphere

Between the Blockbuster and the beach there are the film festivals of New England
Summer traditionally has been the happy hunting ground for Hollywood studios — the time when they unleash their big-budgeted, f/x-heavy warhorses on armies of newly freed schoolchildren and frazzled adults trying to beat the heat.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  June 09, 2009

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Gay deceivers

Outrage isn't outrageous enough
The California State Supreme Court just upheld Proposition 8, denying gay people the right to marriage. This should disabuse the complacent of the illusion that the religious right has relinquished its death grip on America. So, too, should Kirby Dick's documentary about the homophobic power of closeted right-wing politicians in America.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  June 04, 2009

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Review: Land of the Lost

Will Ferrell bottoms out
Even Matt Lauer deserves a better fate than to watch his career die at the hands of Brad Silbering.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  June 03, 2009

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Review: The Hangover

Almost all the elements are familiar.
The increasingly tiresome trend of raunchy comedies about bad male behavior finds nothing new to laugh about in Todd Phillips's retread of Old School.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  June 02, 2009

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Review: Up

Raising the art to a higher level
Nobody these days tells stories as cinematically as do the people at Pixar. At least for the first half-hour of their films.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  June 01, 2009

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Review: The Song of Sparrows

Rings true despite lapses
Its title notwithstanding, the bird most in evidence in Majid Majidi's look at the conflict between tradition and modernity, city and country, is much larger and less musical.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 27, 2009

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Review: Terminator Salvation

Terminator franchise can not be salvaged
The future has not been kind to the Terminator franchise.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 21, 2009

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Review: The Girlfriend Experience

Getting the business
Comparing prostitution with capitalism is about as old as the oldest profession itself.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 20, 2009

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Review: The Brothers Bloom

Too much nudging and winking
Some have criticized Rian Johnson for being too clever in his follow-up to the overpraised Brick , but I think it's his cuteness that's the problem.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 20, 2009

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Review: Dust

Resistance is futile, make the most of it
German documentarian Hartmut Bitomsky likes to make movies about how things are put together and how they come apart.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 19, 2009

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Review: The Garden

All politics may not be local, but effective political documentaries tend to be
The title of Scott Hamilton Kennedy's complex, provocative, ultimately uplifting documentary invariably calls to mind Genesis, and parallels can be drawn.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 19, 2009

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A star is porn

Adult-film star Sasha Grey makes her mainstream debut
"As Steven was saying the other night at the screening, at the end of the day we're all selling something, and we all want something, whether it's monetary or not."
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 18, 2009

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Class project

Atom Egoyan offers reasons for Adoration
Atom Egoyan was one of the first and most insightful of filmmakers to ponder the consequences and the moral implications of technological advances in media and communications.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 18, 2009

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Review: Sleep Dealer

Wide awake
Just when you thought Mexican cinema had lost its edge with films like Rudo y Cursi , along comes an ambitious and intelligent offering like this dystopic fable from Alex Rivera.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 13, 2009

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Review: Tulpan

Haunting, yet familiar
Borat notwithstanding, movies from Kazakhstan have their share of funny moments.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 13, 2009

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Review: Rudo y Cursi

Tepid, crude, and prissy
In 2001, Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna teamed up in Alfonso Cuarón's Y tu mamá también , and that exuberant coming-of-age romp suggested that Mexican cinema might be the next New Wave.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 13, 2009

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Review: OMG/Hahaha

An ambitious attempt to incorporate new media
If e-mail or cellphones don't prove the downfall of film, maybe it will be text-messaging or blogs.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 06, 2009
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