Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  Guys and Dolls: Deluxe Edition

  Joseph Mankiewicz

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  The sets are lavish, the costumes bright and beautiful, the voices sharp (with a couple of exceptions) and the cast is enthusiastic. So why...

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  Lady Vengeance

  Park Chan-wook

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  I suppose everybody (by which I mean critics, film buffs, Quentin Tarantino, etc.) has been blowing this Park Chan-wook thing out of propor...

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  Down In The Valley

  David Jacobson

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Down in the Vally is Taxi Driver meets Wim Wenders without being as good as either. It’s a modern-day western tragedy that’s curious to wat...

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  Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul

  Fateh Akin

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  The director of Head-On and the bassist of Einstürzende Neubauten join forces for a documentary that lacks the trail-blazing energy of both...

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  District 13

  Philippe Morel

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Everything about District 13 smacks of laziness and moral turpitude, the kind of slapped-together political tract that could only come from...

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  Caché

  Michael Haneke

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Michael Haneke used to be a bitter old Austrian who ground familiar axes about bourgeois alienation. But somewhere around Time of the Wolf...

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  Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Unrated

  Doug Liman

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  A whopping five minutes have been added to this fateful teaming of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, but they do nothing to enhance the mediocr...

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  The King

  James Marsh

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  You know you’re in for a rough ride when a movie names its hero "Elvis” and expects you to take it symbolically. Alas, this is James Marsh’...