Articles by Michelle Devereaux

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  The Man Without a Past

  Aki Kaurismaki

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  It's tempting to think of Aki Kaurismaki (The Match Factory Girl, La vie de bohème) as the Jim Jarmusch of northern Europe. With his deadpa...

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  Confidence

  James Foley

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Even 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 back...

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  Owning Mahowny

  Richard Kwietniowski

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Gifted character actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is perfectly cast as socially awkward golden boy Dan Mahowny in this chronicle of the real-li...

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  Together

  Chen Kaige

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  With Together, the director of the acclaimed Chinese historical epics Farewell My Concubine and The Emperor and the Assassin has crafted a...

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  A Home at the End of the World

  Michael Mayer

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

  You'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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  The Hunted

  William Friedkin

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2003

  It's hard to resist calling this the thinking man's First Blood. Truth by told though, any man solidly satisfied with such pointlessness co...

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  Identity

  James Mangold

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2003

  Identity's saving grace comes with a third-act revelation that successfully transforms it from a future staple of the discount bin at your...

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  Valley Girl

  Martha Coolidge

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2003

  Why is it that in the movies cool, outsider-type guys always fall for feminine stereotypes? Like a pre-Iran/Contra Lloyd Dobler, Nicolas Ca...