Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

  Tsai Ming-Liang

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2007

  There didn’t seem to be anywhere for Tsai Ming-Liang to go after the apocalyptic finale of The Wayward Cloud, but his latest feature offers...

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  Driving Lessons

  Jeremy Brock

  PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2007

  Funny, I thought Britain had actual cinema going on there, until I walked into Driving Lessons and saw how far things had degenerated. Harr...

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  The Nativity Story

  Catherine Hardwicke

  PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2007

  I don’t know what lunatic decided to turn the director of Thirteen loose on some unsuspecting scripture but the damage is done: The Nativit...

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  The Puffy Chair

  Jay Duplass

  PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2007

  I’m on the fence as to what to think of this micro-budgeted indie: part of me wants to chide it for its blunt simplicity, and part of me li...

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  The Painted Veil

  John Curran

  PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2007

  W. Somerset Maugham gets the middlebrow lit-flick treatment, and it’s no better or worse than any other film in the genre. Naomi Watts sta...

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  Miss Potter

  Chris Noonan

  PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2007

  Dear Chris Noonan; I hate to be the one to tell you this but Beatrix Potter (an author and illustrator, most famous for Peter Rabbit) was n...

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  Arthur and the Invisibles

  Luc Besson

  PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2007

  I don’t know what possessed hokey action god Luc Besson to try his hand at an animated kid pic but the result is predictable: an ear-splitt...

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  Alpha Dog

  Nick Cassavetes

  PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2007

  I was expecting absolutely nothing from this, which after all is a Nick Cassavetes movie opening in January. But it managed to put to shame...