Articles by Erin Oke

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  2:37

  Murali K. Thalluri

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2007

  2:37 is an Australian film following a group of teenagers around school on the day one of them decides to commit suicide. The story is told...

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  All The King's Men

  Steven Zaillian

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2007

  All the King’s Men, based on the Robert Penn Warren novel and remade from the 1949 Oscar winning picture, starts off promisingly, following...

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  Antonia

  Tata Amaral

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2007

  Antonia is the name of the all-female rap group whose story this Brazilian film tells. Set in a slum of Sao Paolo, four friends dream of mu...

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  Babel

  Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2007

  As Alejandro Iñárritu’s previous work (21 Grams, Amores Perros) shows, the director has a pretty bleak worldview and Babel is no exception....

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  The Fall

  Tarsem Singh

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2007

  Unlike director Tarsem’s (best known for his work in advertising and music video directing) feature film debut The Cell, The Fall is a movi...

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  Stomp the Yard

  Sylvain White

  PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2007

  Stomp the Yard begins bizarrely with a surreal portrayal of L.A. underground street dance competitions that could have been directed by Dav...

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  Music and Lyrics

  Marc Lawrence

  PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2007

  Music and Lyrics, this Valentine’s Day romantic comedy offering, is pretty ridiculous. Its impossibly contrived plot has washed-up ’80s pop...

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  The Namesake

  Mira Nair

  PUBLISHED Mar 9, 2007

  The Namesake is a wonderful new film from Monsoon Wedding director Mira Nair. Based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake follows two...