Articles by Allan Tong

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  The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz

  Ted Kotcheff

  PUBLISHED Feb 4, 2008

  When Mordecai Richler’s classic novel about a working-class Jewish kid from Montreal hustling his way to success but losing his soul was tu...

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  Tootsie: 25th Anniversary Edition

  Sydney Pollack

  PUBLISHED Feb 4, 2008

  Tootsie survived the cinematic wasteland of the Hollywood ’80s to endure as one of the funniest and most perceptive comedies of all time. I...

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  U2 3D

  Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington

  PUBLISHED Jan 30, 2008

  Nearly sixteen years after Rolling Stones Live At The Max, a new concert film hits the world’s six-storey-high Imax screens. U2 3D captures...

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  Eastern Promises

  David Cronenberg

  PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2008

  Exclaim Critics Pick - 2008! A baby and a diary left by a dead teenage prostitute spark the dark drama behind Eastern Promises. A crime-thr...

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  She's Gotta Have It

  Spike Lee

  PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2008

  Finally, Spike Lee’s charming 1986 debut goes digital, but it arrives in a bare-bones release without extras. What gives? Lesser Spike film...

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  Groundhog Day: 15th Anniversary Edition

  Harold Ramis

  PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2008

  It’s a few groundhog days too soon to reissue one of the finest comedies of all time. The Ramos/Rubin classic about a cynical weatherman (B...

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  The Great Debaters

  Denzel Washington

  PUBLISHED Jan 4, 2008

  Denzel Washington returns to directing with an imperfect yet impressive drama honouring Wiley College’s all-black debating team, which went...

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  Juno

  Jason Reitman

  PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2007

  When teenage misfit Juno (Ellen Page) gets pregnant by her geeky boyfriend, Paulie (Michael Cera), she neither keeps nor aborts her baby. I...