Articles By Michelle Devereaux
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Together Chen Kaige Published Jan 01, 2006With Together, the director of the acclaimed Chinese historical epics Farewell My Concubine and The Emperor and the Assassin has crafted a m...
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Owning Mahowny Richard Kwietniowski Published Jan 01, 2006Gifted character actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is perfectly cast as socially awkward golden boy Dan Mahowny in this chronicle of the real-lif...
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The Man Without a Past Aki Kaurismaki Published Jan 01, 2006It's tempting to think of Aki Kaurismaki (The Match Factory Girl, La vie de bohème) as the Jim Jarmusch of northern Europe. With his deadpan...
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Confidence James Foley Published Jan 01, 2006Even the tagline to the new crime thriller Confidence "It's not the money. It's the money" smacks of a grift. The movie bends over backw...
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A Home at the End of the World Michael Mayer Published Aug 01, 2004You've probably read it in the gossip pages but If not, let me sum it up: Colin Farrell went full frontal in A Home at the End of the World...
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Acclaimed genre director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's movies are typically rather "un-Japanese" affirmations of the soundness of irrationality, and hi...
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Eternally quotable raconteur, aesthete and "first modern man" Oscar Wilde once remarked, "Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous bod...
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The Hunted William Friedkin Published Sep 01, 2003It's hard to resist calling this the thinking man's First Blood. Truth by told though, any man solidly satisfied with such pointlessness cou...
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Identity James Mangold Published Sep 01, 2003Identity's saving grace comes with a third-act revelation that successfully transforms it from a future staple of the discount bin at your l...
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Till Human Voices Wake Us Michael Petroni Published Aug 01, 2003Amnesia seems to follow Guy Pearce around. First, he was haunted by severe short-term memory loss as he searched for his dead wife's killer...
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Valley Girl Martha Coolidge Published Aug 01, 2003Why is it that in the movies cool, outsider-type guys always fall for feminine stereotypes? Like a pre-Iran/Contra Lloyd Dobler, Nicolas Cag...
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Johnny English Peter Howitt Published Jul 01, 2003In Johnny English, pigeon-like funny man Rowan Atkinson's titular British secret agent is so Clouseau-esque he might consider changing his n...
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Garage Days Alex Proyas Published Jul 01, 2003As the old Australian adage goes, it's a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll. Especially if you suck. It's not giving anything aw...
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American Wedding Jesse Dylan Published Jul 01, 2003If you're going to title your movie American Wedding, you better have something archetypal in mind. Not just "a wedding" (indie scamp Robert...
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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas Patrick Gilmore Published Jul 01, 2003What's with all the allusions to ancient Greek mythology in the latest big-screen tale of the swashbuckling Arabian Knight, Sinbad? This par...
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Raising Victor Vargas Peter Sollett Published Jul 01, 2003Casting non-actors in starring roles is always a gamble. Casting child non-actors in starring roles can be tantamount to insanity. Fortunate...
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Benzina Monica Stambrini Published Jul 01, 2003First-time feature director Stambrini refers to her film, which translates less poetically to "Gas," as a "static road movie," but it's more...
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The Wild Dogs Thom Fitzgerald Published Jun 01, 2003"Life has taught me that all men are dogs and all women are bitches," says Fitzgerald, who not only wrote and directed The Wild Dogs, but al...
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Morvern Callar Lynne Ramsay Published May 01, 2003Someone ought to abduct Samantha Morton, shrink her down and permanently adhere her to the celluloid of a Mike Leigh film. Morton is the bea...
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People I Know Dan Algrant Published May 01, 2003Ah, Al Pacino, the Dr. Jekyll of future screen legends. It can never be truly foretold which side of Pacino will arise from the murky silver...