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Kung Fu Panda is a story that almost tells itself in its title. It is so hard to imagine a big, fuzzy panda performing martial arts encounters that you intuit (and you will be right) that the panda stars in an against-all-odds formula, which dooms him to succeed. For the
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Kung Fu Panda is a story that almost tells itself in its title. It is so hard to imagine a big, fuzzy panda performing martial arts encounters that you intuit (and you will be right) that the panda stars in an against-all-odds formula, which dooms him to succeed. For the
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The crowd I joined for You Don’t Mess With the Zohan roared with laughter, and I understand why. Adam Sandler’s new comedy is shameless in its eagerness to extract laughs from every possible breach of taste or decorum, and why am I even mentioning taste and decorum in this context?
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The crowd I joined for You Don’t Mess With the Zohan roared with laughter, and I understand why. Adam Sandler’s new comedy is shameless in its eagerness to extract laughs from every possible breach of taste or decorum, and why am I even mentioning taste and decorum in this context?
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I am not the person to review this movie. Perhaps you will enjoy a review from someone who disqualifies himself at the outset, doesn’t much like most of the characters and is bored by their bubble-brained conversations. Here is a 145-minute movie containing one (1) line of truly witty dialogue:
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I am not the person to review this movie. Perhaps you will enjoy a review from someone who disqualifies himself at the outset, doesn’t much like most of the characters and is bored by their bubble-brained conversations. Here is a 145-minute movie containing one (1) line of truly witty dialogue:
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My mistake was to read the interview with the director. At the beginning of my review of The Strangers, I typed my star rating instinctively: “One star.” I was outraged. I wrote: “What a waste of a perfectly good first act! And what a maddening, nihilistic, infuriating ending!” I was
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My mistake was to read the interview with the director. At the beginning of my review of The Strangers, I typed my star rating instinctively: “One star.” I was outraged. I wrote: “What a waste of a perfectly good first act! And what a maddening, nihilistic, infuriating ending!” I was
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. of the Crystal Skull. Say it aloud. The very title causes the pulse to quicken, if you, like me, are a lover of pulp fiction. What I want is goofy action — lots of it. I want man-eating ants, sword fights
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. of the Crystal Skull. Say it aloud. The very title causes the pulse to quicken, if you, like me, are a lover of pulp fiction. What I want is goofy action — lots of it. I want man-eating ants, sword fights
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At noon Sunday, I attended a press screening of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I returned to my laptop, wrote my review and sent it off, convinced I would be in a minority. I loved it, but then I'm also the guy who loved Beowulf, and
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At noon Sunday, I attended a press screening of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I returned to my laptop, wrote my review and sent it off, convinced I would be in a minority. I loved it, but then I'm also the guy who loved Beowulf, and
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The two friends in Son of Rambow hang out in a backyard shack that rewards close study. It’s made of rough lumber, hammered together into not quite parallel lines; it’s out of plumb. It could be drawn, but not easily built. Since the 11-year-old hero, Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) is
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The two friends in Son of Rambow hang out in a backyard shack that rewards close study. It’s made of rough lumber, hammered together into not quite parallel lines; it’s out of plumb. It could be drawn, but not easily built. Since the 11-year-old hero, Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) is
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The Grand Cinema’s First 10 film series screens movies first shown at the Grand. Here’s this week’s offerings. See Movie Clock for showtimes. Memento Leonard, the hero of the film, is played by Guy Pearce, in a performance that is curiously moving, considering that by definition it has no emotional arc. He
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The Grand Cinema’s First 10 film series screens movies first shown at the Grand. Here’s this week’s offerings. See Movie Clock for showtimes. Memento Leonard, the hero of the film, is played by Guy Pearce, in a performance that is curiously moving, considering that by definition it has no emotional arc. He
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Martin Scorsese’s Shine a Light may be the most intimate documentary ever made about a live rock’n’ roll concert. Certainly it has the best coverage of the performances on stage. Working with cinematographer Robert Richardson, Scorsese deployed a team of nine other cinematographers, all of them Oscar winners or nominees,
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Martin Scorsese’s Shine a Light may be the most intimate documentary ever made about a live rock’n’ roll concert. Certainly it has the best coverage of the performances on stage. Working with cinematographer Robert Richardson, Scorsese deployed a team of nine other cinematographers, all of them Oscar winners or nominees,
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a film about a man who experiences the catastrophe I most feared during my recent surgeries: “locked-in syndrome,” where he is alive and conscious but unable to communicate with the world. My dread, I think, began when I was a boy first reading
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a film about a man who experiences the catastrophe I most feared during my recent surgeries: “locked-in syndrome,” where he is alive and conscious but unable to communicate with the world. My dread, I think, began when I was a boy first reading
