Articles by Joseph Belanger

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  Antoine

  Laura Bari

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2009

  With a knowing wink, a small, sightless child opens the blinds and lets light into the room. It takes about five seconds to fall in love wi...

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  Defamation

  Yoav Shamir

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2009

  The immediately striking thing about Yoav Shamir's latest film, Defamation, is its tone. Narrated by Shamir, said tone is decidedly jovial,...

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  Mean Girls [Blu-Ray]

  Mark Waters

  PUBLISHED Apr 15, 2009

  Given the choice between being surrounded by a pack of wild animals or a pack of teenage girls, I'm not sure which I would choose. On the o...

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  Amadeus: The Director's Cut [Blu-Ray]

  Milos Forman

  PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2009

  Make no mistake: Milos Forman's Amadeus: The Director's Cut is unapologetically dramatic. The good news is that it has absolutely nothing t...

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  Ne Le Dis A Personne (Tell No One)

  Guillaume Canet

  PUBLISHED Feb 11, 2009

  There are times when reviewers are stumped over how to convey admiration, or the lack thereof, without giving everything away. This is expo...

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  The Class (Entre Les Murs)

  Laurent Cantet

  PUBLISHED Jan 15, 2009

  This year's winner at Cannes for the Palmes d'Or and France's official submission to the Academy Awards as Foreign Language Film contender,...

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  Mongol

  Sergei Bodrov

  PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2008

  Everyone has to start somewhere. Even emperors can have humble beginnings. And so the great Genghis Khan, emperor of the Mongol Empire in t...

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  Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

  Henry Selick

  PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2008

  I’ve never been able to pin down what exactly is the target audience for the Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. It’s a holiday ta...