Articles by Paul Duder

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  Chicago 10

  Brett Morgen

  PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2008

  Stepping up a couple of weight classes from his previous feature, fizzy Hollywood documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture, Brett Morgen us...

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  Step Brothers

  Adam McKay

  PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2008

  When widower Robert (The Visitor’s Richard Jenkins, cashing a cheque) and divorcée Nancy (Mary Steenburgen) marry, the new family include...

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  The Strangers

  Bryan Bertino

  PUBLISHED May 30, 2008

  Home invasion thriller The Strangers opens on James and Kristen as they leave a wedding (not their own) late at night, awkwardly heading fo...

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  P2

  Franck Khalfoun

  PUBLISHED May 7, 2008

  As a driven, pants-wearing, single career woman — and so number two (after oversexed teenagers) on the psycho killer to-do list — Angie (Ra...

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  The Bank Job

  Roger Donaldson

  PUBLISHED Mar 7, 2008

  One of these days, Jason Statham will try on a new wig or accent or persona and a generation of filmgoers will collapse in befuddlement. Bu...

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  Viva

  Anna Biller

  PUBLISHED Feb 29, 2008

  With her debut feature Viva, a would-be cult classic sniffing around morally vacuous, Playboy-damaged L.A. (circa 1972), artist/provocateur...

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  Honeydripper

  John Sayles

  PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2008

  It’s been a depressingly long while since one-time indie wunderkind John Sayles has roiled any waters beyond his own clannish film festival...

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  Over Her Dead Body

  Jeff Lowell

  PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2008

  I don’t know if it’s some kind of Christian millennial angst or just simple intellectual bankruptcy but the "dead paramour returns” motif n...