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REVIEW: The Messenger
“The Messenger” – it’s just like “Up in the Air,” only with graver situations and implications. And that’s a very good thing! The movie captures with a haunting realism the journeys of two enlisted men...
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REVIEW: Rampart
The slogan for “Rampart,” though not on the poster I’ve embedded in this review, is “the most corrupt cop you’ve ever seen on screen.” To that, I merely laugh. So I guess they assume we haven’t seen...
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REVIEW: Love & Mercy
Struggle is an inevitable, unavoidable part of creating art and living life. But in Bill Pohlad’s “Love & Mercy,” an unconventional two-panel biopic of Beach Boys lead singer Brian Wilson,...
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REVIEW: Time Out of Mind
The urban poor are so often exoticized or romanticized on screen (see “The Soloist,” “Gimme Shelter“). The issue of how our society can allow such a tragedy to befall a person usually gets passed over...
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REVIEW: The Dinner
I’ve racked my brain for days. Still, I cannot find a scenario in which the same person who masterfully threaded the seven-character Bob Dylan opus “I’m Not There” could also write something as clunky...
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