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  • October 2007

    • Afflecks' Gone Baby a Real Coup

      Metacritic  |  Oct 19, 07 4:48 PM CDT

      Afflecks' Gone Baby a Real Coup

      (Newser) - Ben Affleck “emerges triumphant” from his directorial debut, Rolling Stone says in reviewing Gone Baby Gone , out today and already a critics' darling. “It's one of the best crime movies of this decade,” the Hollywood Reporter raves. Younger brother Casey stars as a PI searching for a missing girl in a story brimming with “genuine moral complexity,” the Village Voice says. More »

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      movie review  • Ben Affleck  • Casey Affleck

    • Rendition Torture to Sit Through

      Metacritic  |  Oct 19, 07 2:17 PM CDT

      Rendition Torture to Sit Through

      (Newser) - Rendition, the story of an American woman's search for her arrested Egyptian-born husband, is a well-meaning but ultimately shallow exploration of America's policies on torture, critics say. " Rendition tackles the concern in a heavy-handed thriller with simplistic characters and manipulative storylines," says the Hollywood Reporter. More »

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      movie review  • Reese Witherspoon  • Meryl Streep  • Jake Gyllenhaal

    • Del Toro's Good; Berry's on Fire

      Metacritic  |  Oct 19, 07 10:15 AM CDT

      Del Toro's Good; Berry's on Fire

      (Newser) - Things We Lost in the Fire, the weepie opening today and starring Halle Berry as a newly bereaved widow and Benicio Del Toro as her heroin-addicted comforter, draws mixed reviews. Most agree with the Chicago Tribune that it's "consistently well acted," awarding special praise to Del Toro. But the movie gets no points for originality. More »

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      movie  • film  • movie review  • David Duchovny  • Halle Berry  • Benicio Del Toro

    • Mediocrity, Blahs Own the Night

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  Oct 12, 07 3:00 PM CDT

      Mediocrity, Blahs Own the Night

      (Newser) - No one feels too strongly about We Own the Night, a crime drama Variety calls “exceptionally conventional.” It delivers “jolts of pulse-quickening drama,” the Inquirer says, complete with a rainy car chase every reviewer loved. Beyond that, “reactions will depend greatly upon one's tolerance for dramatic implausibilities, plot loopholes, emotional clichés, and period anachronisms,” Variety says. More »

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      movie  • movie review  • Mark Wahlberg  • Joaquin Phoenix

    • Not Even Cate Can Save Liz 2

      Metacritic  |  Oct 12, 07 11:57 AM CDT

      Not Even Cate Can Save Liz 2

      (Newser) - Nobody can bear to say a bad word about Cate Blanchett, star of Elizabeth: The Golden Age ," despite agreeing that the film itself is a big gooey mess. "Cate Blanchett can do anything," writes Peter Travers in Rolling Stone , "but she can't save this creaky sequel." Most agree with Roger Ebert: "We lose sight of the humans behind the dazzle of the production." More »

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      movie  • movie review  • Cate Blanchett  • Queen Elizabeth I

    • Clooney Wows in Sleek Clayton

      Metacritic  |  Oct 5, 07 2:53 PM CDT

      Clooney Wows in Sleek Clayton

      (Newser) - It might sound like a familiar corporate thriller—a court case, dark secrets, attacks of conscience—but Entertainment Weekly says Michael Clayton makes it all seem fresh, calling it “better than good.” It’s no Erin Brockovich , raves Slate , fading white and black hats to gray. And George Clooney's performance has critics thinking Oscar. More »

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      movie  • movie review  • Oscar  • George Clooney  • Michael Clayton

  • September 2007

    • As Serious Film, 'Kingdom' Falls

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  Sep 28, 07 11:47 AM CDT

      As Serious Film, 'Kingdom' Falls

      (Newser) - The Kingdom , starring Jamie Foxx and directed by Peter Berg, wants to be a thoughtful action movie about terrorism—part Rambo , part Syriana , muses the Washington Post . Instead, Newsday says, it's a “clamorous and patronizing” popcorn flick, that EW calls “shameless” in pushing audiences’ buttons. More »

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      movie  • movie review  • Jamie Foxx  • Kingdom  • Peter Berg

    • Do Not Adjust Your Flat Panel TV

      Wall Street Journal  |  Sep 23, 07 5:06 AM CDT

      Do Not Adjust Your Flat Panel TV

      (Newser) - The Wall Street Journal’ s Joe Morgenstern needs you to know that you’re watching your HDTV wrong. Next generation televisions are built for a 16:9 aspect ratio, he explains, so normal TV’s 4:3-formatted programming only looks right when bordered by black boxes. But TV owners who paid a premium for the big sets are stretching images beyond reason. More »

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      television  • movie review  • HDTV  • high definition

    • 'Eastern Promises' Makes Good

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  Sep 21, 07 9:43 AM CDT

      'Eastern Promises' Makes Good

      (Newser) - Eastern Promises , like director David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence before it, is a crime thriller starring Viggo Mortensen. And like Violence , critics love it. Its Russian mobsters transplanted to London are not characters, Roger Ebert raves, but “plausible human beings.” Mortensen stands out, having “just the ratio of machine to mortal that Cronenberg requires,” says the New Yorker ’s Anthony Lane. More »

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      movie  • movie review

    • Critics Riding High on Western '3:10 to Yuma'

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  Sep 7, 07 6:47 AM CDT

      Critics Riding High on Western '3:10 to Yuma'

      (Newser) - Critics are saddling up for "3:10 to Yuma," a remake of a Western that “moves like a barn on fire,” according to Newsday ’s Jan Stuart. It's director James Mangold's "most sustained and evocative work," touts the New Yorker . The morally nuanced film follows rancher (Christian Bale) in his effort to bring a charismatic prisoner (Russell Crowe) to his execution. More »

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      movie  • film  • movie review  • media criticism  • movie remakes  • 3:10 to Yuma

    • Blanchett 'Astonishing' as Dylan

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Sep 5, 07 4:38 PM CDT

      Blanchett 'Astonishing' as Dylan

      (Newser) - I'm Not There , director Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan biopic, has gained at least one fan in the Telegraph 's David Gritten. More "symbolist poem" than conventional biography, the film portrays Dylan in various guises, including an 11-year-old black actor and Cate Blanchett in the film's "tour de force." Among other embodiments: Richard Gere as Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid. More »

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      movie review  • Cate Blanchett  • Bob Dylan  • I'm Not There  • Venice Film Festival  • Todd Haynes

  • August 2007

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