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PETER KEOUGH

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Review: 'A Horse Is Not a Metaphor'

Hammer's joy in being alive is no metaphor either
Cinema might not be able to cure cancer, but when wielded by a master documentarian like Barbara Hammer, it can squeeze a little beauty out of the disease.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 06, 2009

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Review: The Lollipop Generation

There's a fine line between the trash of early John Waters and just plain garbage.
There's a fine line between the trash of early John Waters and just plain garbage.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 06, 2009

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Mission Control

Jim Jarmusch's arbitrary Limits
Like many of his films, Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control will test the limits of its audience's patience.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 07, 2009

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Review: The Lost Coast

The e-mail is strictly spam
If cellphones as plot devices don't ruin film narrative, maybe e-mail will.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 06, 2009

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Review: The Good American

Your average pro-business Republican might take exception
By most accounts, Tom Weise is a good American.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 06, 2009

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Not so great X-pectations

Wolverine 's shaggy-dog backstory
It doesn't bode well when one of a movie's supervillains has a Roman numeral for a name.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 07, 2009

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Ring master

Toback's Tyson tames two egos
At its best, Tyson becomes its subject's psychotherapist, allowing him to disgorge with no judgment and little restraint his memories, fantasies, impulses, and fears.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 28, 2009

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Review: Pedro

An inspiring life reduced to sound bites, clichés, and hugs
There's no other reason to see the film.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 28, 2009

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Review: I Can't Think Straight

Pastel-colored romance
You'd think being a gay Muslim in London would involve a lot of stress, but in Shamim Sarif's blithe, pastel-colored romance, everyone is beautiful and rich, so it's just another diversion.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 28, 2009

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Review: Revanche

A parable of crime and punishment
Opening with portentous symbolism, studied sordidness, and generous nudity, Austrian director Götz Spielmann's neo–film noir seems like a parody of a foreign film.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 29, 2009

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Review: The Lemon Tree

A sometimes engaging allegory
Message gets entangled with melodrama to the benefit of neither in Eran Riklis's sometimes engaging allegory of the Israeli/Palestinian standoff.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 29, 2009

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Interview: James Toback

Director James Toback tackles legendary boxing champ Tyson in a new documentary
"Eventually, I think Mike should work with kids who have backgrounds similar to his, because he'd be great with them. They'd look up to him."
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 29, 2009

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Review: The Informers

L.A. stories
Were the '80s an era of comic nostalgia, as in Adventureland , or one of inane nihilism, as in Gregor Jordan's adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel?
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 21, 2009

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Middling earth

Too much talk spoils the images
At times, the images in Alastair Fothergill & Mark Linfield's documentary adapted from the BBC nature series of the same name elicit that rare cinematic response: wonder.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 21, 2009

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Independent Film Festival Boston 2009

Alive and well  
A film festival is no better than the films available, and to judge from the selection of more than 50 features and documentaries plus numerous shorts at this year’s Independent Film Festival of Boston, reports of the decline of indie cinema are vastly exaggerated.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  September 14, 2009

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Review: The Burning Plain

Why have burning plain when you can have burning fancy?
Arriaga starts the story in the middle and moves sideways, so it may take you a while to realize it's bogus.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 15, 2009

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Review: Children of Invention

Powerfully moving and rigorously intelligent
Chun's is an eloquent and restrained study of the fine line between respectability and desperation.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 15, 2009

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Review: That Evening Sun

Illuminating familiar ground
Scott Teems's faux Faulkner melodrama scores for cinematography but falls short in originality and character development.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 15, 2009

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Review: Pontypool

Bruce McDonald deserves some credit for trying
Bruce McDonald's ambitious shaggy-dog story combining elements of Talk Radio , William Burroughs, and Night of the Living Dead succeeds about as well as could be expected.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 15, 2009

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Review: Goodbye Solo

Optimistic cabbie meet cranky codger
So far in his brief career, North Carolina native Ramin Bahrani has tapped into the greatest naturalist filmmakers and come back the richer.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 15, 2009
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