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Questions of Credibility

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2008-02-22 22:19:14 by Editor in Culture Snob
...brisk, bleak, claustrophobic, dense thriller in the vein of Syriana , and the other is a crowd-pleasing legal potboiler that could have come from John Grisham There's nothing inherently wrong with crowd-pleasing legal potboilers, just as there's nothing wrong with brisk, bleak, claustrophobic, dense thrillers. But when they're combined, they...
 
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"Once" upon a magical Oscar moment

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2008-02-25 07:04:00 by Reel Fanatic in Reel Fanatic
...brisk, mostly very enjoyable affair. And Jon Stewart deserves a lot of credit for that, even though he couldn't wait for more than about 10 minutes to tell the four people in America who might not have known already that Diablo Cody was once a stripper. (Yes, if I can digress for a moment, I did say stripper. Having worked briefly as a...
 
Tags: night, sunday night, irglova, moment, jon stewart deserves, stewart, marketa irglova, strip club hey, bourne ultimatum
 
 
 
 
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Top 50 of 1960s

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2007-11-01 05:23:49 by clydefro in clydefro
...brisk running time with wrong turns, red herrings, and a $40,000 MacGuffin. Copied and ripped-off past the point of excess, Bernard Herrmanns scoring of that scene has rightfully become perhaps the most famous combination of music and editing in film. The psychological wrap-up feels out of place, but its somewhat redeemed by setting up...
 
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Hot Fuzz

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2007-09-12 06:28:00 by Gareth in gareth's movie diary
...brisk, and the film saves the best for its closing sequences, the middle sags rather badly (a flaw that also bedevils Knocked Up , though the success of both films seems to give the lie to the idea that mainstream movie audiences are attention-deficit). The plot, in that central segment, descends into complete absurdity that's obviously...
 
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DVD Review: The Seventh Seal (1957), 50th Anniversary Special Edition

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2007-12-08 18:06:24 by Sam Healy in Cinedelica
...brisk pace So is it ultimately an optimistic or pessimistic piece? Such are the complexity, passion and searing intuition of Bergman's masterwork that the answer to this question may prove as elusive as that sought by Antonius Block himself. What is beyond question is that cinema would be immeasurably the poorer for its absence. Endlessly...
 
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Short-Film Week: A Short Film About Failure

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2007-12-05 17:18:39 by Editor in Culture Snob
...brisk, and many people will find it baffling. It's an hour-long character drama dressed up as a thriller that promises epic science fiction and metaphysical truths and delivers neither. The alien signal and construction project drive the plot but are finally irrelevant; they're not quite MacGuffins, but they're not quite important, either...
 
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2006-11-06 13:43:00 by Hetero-Erotica in -M-TERTAINMENT
...brisk 90 minutes. Hes not doing anything we havent seen before. Its the same gags hes done on the HBO show, and on his UK show (with a hideous laugh track) before that. Yet Cohen is so smart and whip-quick that even the same gags youve seen before feel almost fresh due to his superb wit and improvisational techniques. And never do you not...
 
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2006-10-02 21:55:00 by Hetero-Erotica in -M-TERTAINMENT
...brisk 1:40 running time, this is quite a jam packed clip. Also, terrifying. As the usually lovely Samantha Morton shakes spastically to the beat, then goes through a strobe light induced seizure, and then loses her entrails (or spits out a face hugger from Alien, which will later actually engulf her face), you cant help but wonder what the...
 
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Last Week's New Releases

2007-10-15 08:18:00 by Paul Hall, Common Guy's Film Reviews in Common Guy's Film Reviews Blog
 
...brisk and intriguing film that will grab hold of you and take you for a ride. B We Own The Night -- Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall, Eva Mendes...just saying those four names are here in this film should be enough. This is the gritty story of two brothers with different career goals as we start on a journey through the world of...
 
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Directors shoot down convention

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2007-12-20 16:51:12 by Behind The Scenes TV in Behind The Scenes TV
...brisk pacing and narrative momentum in order to evoke moods, ideas and tensions that resist simple explanation or resolution Source: Variety
 
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