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Pretty slight compared to Roger & Me and Bowling for Columbine, but it’s worth seeing if you like Moore’s work; I actually liked it better than BfC because it wasn’t as lecture-y in tone. …
It’s one of those super-hokey things where celebs tell you what you’re supposed to like about it, and then they show a clip, but Dino makes it work in spite of Gene Kelly’s scary yellow …
I just love everyone in this movie so much. I really don’t have anything else to say about it.
It’s 93 minutes long, but if Cocteau had told the Beast to spit out his damn lines instead of dragging every utterance of “Belle” out to “Baaaayyyyyllll(ih),” he could have brought it in under an …
Not really a movie, exactly; it’s a filmed performance of three short plays/monologues by Neil LaBute. I’ve defended LaBute in the past, but his apparent need to flay the skin off human nature for …
A lot of Woody Allen’s earlier stuff doesn’t hang together very well, but that’s what I like about it — he’s just throwing sight gags and surrealism and Catskills humor at the wall and seeing …
Did anyone else watch this? Entertainment Weekly gave it a crap review, but I liked it a lot — probably because Noth is a total fox with those chops. Mmm, Noth. It’s …
Sarah Silverman, I salute you. It’s kind of a cheap laugh, but she doesn’t bail out of it, I’ll give her that. …This one’s a bit long, given the material, and I don’t …
A good movie with a great cast that is hella hard to watch. If you rent it, definitely listen to the commentary track, which can be a bit inside but is still really informative. …
It’s very long and very bleak, but quite well done for this kind of thing — not too mawkish, doesn’t hit the notes too hard. Kingsley is excellent. (1/3/06)