Reviews Archive

September 20, 2007

The Jane Austen Book Club

No-brainer chick-pleaser manages a couple of swings above its intellectual weight

By Michelle Orange

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Into the Wild

Penn brings an older brother's understanding to the tragedy of a young iconoclast

By Matt Singer

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The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

Dominik's poetic, detached James never convincingly joins form with content

By R. Emmet Sweeney

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September 13, 2007

The Brave One

Jordan and Foster indulge in vigilante justice and nostalgia-busting for pre-Giuliani New York

By Vadim Rizov

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In the Valley of Elah

Haggis brings the heavy in his attempt to weigh in on the cost of the war

By Michelle Orange

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Great World of Sound

Small-town scamming opus paves the path of corporate dishonesty

By Vadim Rizov

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Eastern Promises

Minor Cronenberg, despite his return to "body horror" and a naked bathhouse fight for the ages

By Vadim Rizov

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September 7, 2007

3:10 to Yuma

The actions the thing in Mangold's revisitation (not revision) of the Western

By Vadim Rizov

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Romance and Cigarettes

Turturro's long-delayed musical a staunchly heterosexual take on John Waters

By R. Emmet Sweeney

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September 6, 2007

The Unknown Soldier

Meditation on the actions of Germany's WWII army an entrancing look at the power of civil identity

By Eric Kohn

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