Tag: Douglas Strassler
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‘Pitch Perfect’ hits sour note by striving for being cool than being unique
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What this song-filled flick has going for it is a cast that can sing… which they do… again, and again, and again
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‘The Master’ might just be a… ‘master’-piece
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Make no mistake, ‘The Master,’ as is to be expected by a work from the leading American auteur of his generation, is as mature and confident a motion picture as you’ll find this year.
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Flawed ‘Ted’ reveals Seth MacFarlane’s limits as a storyteller
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Ted Seth MacFarlanes foul feature film debut isnt exactly childs play.
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‘Breaking and Entering’
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Anthony Minghellas Breaking and Entering is less sprawling than his previous movies but equally ambitious.
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‘The Painted Veil’
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The W. Somerset Maugham story The Painted Veil gets yet another screen adaptation, this time directed by John Curran.
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‘Notes on a Scandal’
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Richard Eyres brilliant study of a friendship gone awry, Notes on a Scandal features two of the years greatest performances.
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‘Dreamgirls’
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Despite some problems there are many pleasures to be found in the screen adaptation of Dreamgirls.
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‘The Good German’
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Soderbergh tries so hard to make The Good German feel like an old-style film, that he forgets to make it a good one.
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Oscars 2005
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Im pleased to say that Oscar in all his rather finite wisdom has done a pretty good job in reflecting the last year in film.