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BRETT MICHEL

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Away from Her

Unforgettable performances in a forgettable debut film
Sarah Polley’s feature-directing debut boasts outstanding performances, but she’s confused Alice Munro’s elegantly straightforward structure.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  May 08, 2007

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Vacancy

How's that for a twist?
What’s happened to the horror film?
By BRETT MICHEL  |  April 25, 2007

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Year of the Dog

Not too mangy
There’s almost nothing sadder than neglected dogs awaiting their fates.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  April 18, 2007

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Hot Fuzz

Laughs and piles of bodies
Picture Agatha Christie buggered by Michael Bay, with (old-school) Peter Jackson administering lube.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  April 18, 2007

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Perfect Stranger

Worse than a root canal
Hell, after Catwoman and now this, the Academy should demand that Berry return her Oscar.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  April 10, 2007

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Disturbia

A Rear Window redux
What happened to D.J. Caruso?
By BRETT MICHEL  |  April 10, 2007

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The Hills Have Eyes II

They should keep 'em closed
This quickie sequel to last year’s remake of The Hills Have Eyes promises that “the lucky ones die fast.”
By BRETT MICHEL  |  March 29, 2007

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Beyond the Gates

It's weepy on the other side of the fence
As the end credits roll on Michael Caton-Jones’s film, the latest to deal with the Rwandan genocide, it’s hard not to tear up.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  March 29, 2007

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Home for dinner

Dorchester’s ‘tough guy’ grows up
Before I even get my tape recorder turned on, Mark Wahlberg stands to greet me. Shooter: Republicans get gunned down. By Brett Michel
By BRETT MICHEL  |  March 21, 2007

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Shooter

Republicans get gunned down
It was only a matter of time before the Democrats had a version of Rambo to call their own.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  March 21, 2007

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It came from the sink

Bong Joon-ho stirs up the muck in The Host
Drainage spawns a genetic mutation — part salamander, part fish, part . . . vagina dentata? — that emerges from the Han’s banks.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  March 09, 2007

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The good Germans

Breaking through to The Lives of Others
It’s 1984. The Ruling Party monitors its citizenship, its minute observations allowing the “others” to be categorized –– and persecuted. Watch the trailer for The Lives of Others (YouTube)
By BRETT MICHEL  |  February 14, 2007

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Bloodless diamonds

Non-violence and rationality reign in the MFA’s ‘African Cinema’
If the Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle Blood Diamond gets remembered for anything, it would be for the attention it’s drawn to the injustice that has risen alongside globalization in Africa.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  February 14, 2007

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Smokin' Aces

An inept mess
Perhaps Joe Carnahan pitched his follow-up to 2002’s Narc as It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World by way of Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie, and bad wigs. Watch the trailer for Smokin' Aces (QuickTime)
By BRETT MICHEL  |  January 24, 2007

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Separate souls

Korean gender distinctions at the MFA
If you were lucky enough to have experienced “Visions from the South: Korean Cinema 1960–2005” a couple of years back, then you’re already aware of some of the world-class auteurs hailing from Northeast Asia.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  January 23, 2007

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Arthur and the Invisibles

Doesn't dazzle
This, the latest movie from “the creative mind of talented filmmaker Luc Besson," screened for critics last month, in the usual way. Watch the trailer for Arthur and the Invisibles  (QuickTime)
By BRETT MICHEL  |  January 17, 2007

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King and the Clown

A perfect blend of comedy and tragedy
Based on the popular play Yi, Lee Jun-ik’s sumptuous King and the Clown mines the exhaustive diaries of the Chosun Dynasty for inspiration in depicting its tyrannical 16th-century despot.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  January 17, 2007

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The Host

A monster movie with a splash of muckraking
Running a rubber-gloved finger across gallons of dust-covered bottles of formaldehyde, a US military official orders a Korean morgue attendant at a US Army base in Seoul to “empty every bottle to the very last drop.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  January 17, 2007

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Red Doors

A threshold worth crossing
The doors are crimson, a color said to bring good luck, and when they open, multiple melodramas of the Chinese-American Wongs are exposed. Watch the trailer for Red Doors  (QuickTime)
By BRETT MICHEL  |  January 10, 2007

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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Distilling Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
How to distill the essence of Tom (Lola rennt) Tykwer’s handsome rendition of Patrick Süskind’s morbidly satirical 1985 novel about Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an unloved serial murderer/parfumier possessed of a preternatural olfactory sense, without being as tedious as the film?
By BRETT MICHEL  |  January 03, 2007
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