Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  The Page Turner

  Denis Dercourt

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2007

  The "page turner” in question is a sheet-music changer, not a must-read novel. To be honest, it’s not a must-see movie either. L’enfant’s D...

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  Sydney White

  Joe Nussbaum

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2007

  This may be the grand high Pooh-Bah of backhanded compliments but Sydney White is kind and good-natured enough to distract you from its low...

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  Good Luck Chuck

  Mark Helfrich

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2007

  I thought License to Wed would easily rank as the worst movie of the year, until it was handily dethroned by The Brave One. Safe in my beli...

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  Face/Off

  John Woo

  PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2007

  Sometimes the mind plays tricks on you. I could have sworn that Face/Off was the smart, exciting actioner I thought I saw when it came out...

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  Kon Ichikawa's 47 Ronin

  Kon Ichikawa

  PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2007

  Chushingura, the tale of the 47 disenfranchised samurai that avenged their master and then committed Seppuku, is a historical legend so wel...

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  Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke

  Lou Adler

  PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2007

  You’d expect that a cheaply knocked-off movie about a couple of guys smoking grass would be stupid, boring and unfunny but something inexpl...

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  Across the Universe

  Julie Taymor

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2007

  So it’s finally happened: the ’60s, that once painful memory of political strife and social upheaval, have passed from hotly debated point...

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  The Brave One

  Neil Jordan

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2007

  Some time ago, I announced that License to Wed would rank as the worst movies of the year. There is a reason for this: I hadn’t seen The Br...