Articles by Leo Petaccia

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  Crime Novel (Romanzo Criminale)

  Michele Placido

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

  Remember Stand by Me and that trio of young, audacious swains who thought they could conquer the world with a profuse supply of Pez and hea...

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  The Ruins

  Carter Smith

  PUBLISHED Apr 4, 2008

  Take a fatter-looking Iceman from those X-Men movies, add some tragically dumb blonde and Donnie’s weird girlfriend from Donnie Darko, toss...

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  21

  Robert Luketic

  PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2008

  "We’re not gambling," quips a haughty MIT math professor to his newest student and soon to be crime accessory. As if locked in a spell, tha...

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  Vantage Point

  Pete Travis

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2008

  Chiming in on Hollywood’s conveyer belt of post-9/11 paranoia is director Pete Travis’s Vantage Point. I say this because Vantage Point cou...

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  Charlie Bartlett

  Jon Poll

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2008

  Charlie Bartlett is one big hodgepodge of Rushmore, Igby Goes Down, Thumbsucker, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and a whole slew of other coming-...

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  Rendition

  Gavin Hood

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2008

  Among last year’s slew of anti-war, post-9/11 message films, Gavin Hood’s Rendition still stands its ground and provokes enough thought to...

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  In Bruges

  Martin McDonagh

  PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2008

  If you’re familiar with Colin Farrell’s work, you’re still trying to shake those images of a moustachioed Miami cop with a mullet and a bad...

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  The Invasion

  Oliver Hirschbiegel

  PUBLISHED Feb 4, 2008

  This one’s a toughie. On one hand, The Invasion is pitiable; it was swiftly panned upon theatrical release this past fall and rightfully so...