Articles by Erin Oke

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  Turtles Can Fly

  Bahman Ghobadi

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  Turtles Can Fly is a bleak yet touching look at a small community on the Turkey/Iran/Iraq border on the eve of the latest U.S. invasion. As...

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  Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning

  Grant Harvey

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  This latest outing in the Canadian horror franchise has Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins) inexplicably living in the...

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  Raise Your Voice

  Sean McNamara

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  Raise Your Voice is a ridiculous cheese fest rife with clichés and frighteningly puritanical underpinnings. The movie stars Hilary Duff as...

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  Silver City

  John Sayles

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  One of the leading voices in American independent film, John Sayles returns with yet another politically and socially relevant tale in Silv...

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  Wicker Park

  Paul McGuigan

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  Another addition to the growing trend of Hollywood lazily remaking successful foreign films, Wicker Park takes the 1996 French hit L'Appart...

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  The Forgotten

  Joseph Ruben

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  The Forgotten is an above average supernatural thriller with a stellar cast and a decent premise — a pretty rare thing for Hollywood, unles...

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  The Rage in Placid Lake

  Tony McNamara

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2004

  Australia's The Rage in Placid Lake is at once a sharp social satire and a quirky coming of age story that's much more complex and interest...

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  Valentin

  Alejandro Agresti

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2004

  There is a particular type of foreign film that seems to get North American distribution almost to the exclusion of anything else. These qu...