Articles by Scott MacDonald

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  Twist

  Jacob Tierney

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2004

  This update of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist isn't as silly as it sounds, but it's so drably earnest that it makes silliness seem preferabl...

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  Connie and Carla

  Michael Lembeck

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2004

  Nia Vardalos, the writer and star of the gigantic word-of-mouth hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding, probably has a better understanding of mainst...

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  The Alamo

  John Lee Hancock

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2004

  This movie was supposed to be released last Christmas as prestige Oscar-bait, but after a couple of reportedly miserable test screenings, t...

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  In This World

  Michael Winterbottom

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  In This World is a shot-on-the-run docudrama about two Afghan refugees risking life and limb to emigrate to the West. It's a serious, compa...

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  The Snow Walker

  Charles Martin Smith

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  In 1983, character actor Charles Martin Smith (who is probably best known as the mild-mannered accountant in The Untouchables) landed his f...

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  Osama

  Siddiq Barmak

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Osama is the first full-length feature shot in Afghanistan since the Taliban came to power back in 1996. It should not be mistaken, however...

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  Welcome to Mooseport

  Donald Petrie

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

  Where have all the good comedies gone? It used to be that no matter how bad American movies got, you could always find a halfway decent com...

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  Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

  Sara Sugarman

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

  Teenage girls in movies are scary these days. It's not that they're too mature or too sexually precocious (that's a given now), it's that t...