Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  Little Man

  Keenan Ivory Wayans

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2007

  You pretty much know what you’re in for with any movie about little people pretending to be babies, and Little Man doesn’t disappoint those...

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  Deliver Us from Evil

  Amy Berg

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2007

  It would be merely redundant to hurl epithets at a man like Oliver O’Grady. In his role as priest for a number of California churches, he m...

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  Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels: Director's Cut

  Guy Ritchie

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2007

  Maybe it was the mood I was in but the first time I saw Guy Ritchie’s debut fracas I was rather negatively impressed. It seemed the harbing...

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  The Magus

  Guy Green

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2007

  Woody Allen once remarked that if he had his life to live over, he’d do everything the same, except watch the film version of The Magus. He...

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  Into Great Silence

  Philip Groning

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2007

  Two hours and 40 minutes of silent monks isn’t normally my idea of solid entertainment but there’s no denying that this once-in-a-lifetime...

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  Little Children

  Todd Field

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2007

  The comedy hit of the year has arrived — too bad its makers think it’s a tragedy. Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson play stifled, stay-at-hom...

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  The Omen

  John Moore

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2007

  It would be stretching things more than somewhat to suggest that this remake of the 1976 devil movie favourite is the desecration of a clas...

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  The Secret Life of Words

  Isabel Coixet

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2007

  There’s an erroneous belief, one that still lingers, that so-called "independent films” are somehow more honest and advanced than Hollywood...