- Strong, silent type
They're marketing the Western "Appaloosa" as being in the tradition of "Unforgiven," which is almost completely wrong.
The movie isn't a downer, and it isn't revisionist. In fact, it's made expressly for the lover of the movie-Western tradition, somebody who can recognize and enjoy its riffs on well-known genre titles.
About five minutes into "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People," a pig wanders into a black-tie party and pees on a woman's expensive shoe.
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Drab loves dweeb in 'Nick and Norah'
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Michael Cera has to be the movies' most unlikely chick magnet since Bela Lugosi. Cera may not have a chin, or visible shoulders, or a change of clothes - this guy has worn the same zippered hoodie in three straight movies - but on screen, he's fighting them off with a stick.
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Maher's 'Religulous' fights to a draw
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In "Religulous," Bill Maher calls for the world to be scoured of religious belief in order to prevent its destruction by fanatical, hate-mongering extremists. And by fanatical, hate-mongering extremists he means just about everyone who's serious about any major religion.
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Genius moments of 'Flash' are intermittent
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There's no better timing for Flash of Genius and its story of the Little Guy ripped off by Big Business. In the fact-based film, a professor designs the first intermittent windshield wiper.
Greg Kinnear is a good enough actor to handle the plum bits and aces courtoom scenes. - YOU CAN IMAGINE the greedy astonishment that Hollywood must have felt when Paul Newman started showing up for auditions in the early 1950s.
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It’s no ‘Fight Club,’ but ‘Choke’ has its moments
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"Choke" is adapted from a book by Chuck Palahniuk, who recently said that any movie worth its salt should leave the viewer wondering how it ever got financing.
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Wannabe thriller ‘Eagle Eye’ is for the birds
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The thriller "Eagle Eye" invites us to consider the catastrophe that might result if sinister, omnipotent, unchecked power ended up entirely in the hands of . . . A screenwriter.
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Dour ‘Duchess’ stiff as an ironing board
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"The Duchess" reminds us that non-traditional families are nothing new, certainly not to weirdo nobility across the pond.
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A pale rehash of Seattle’s globalization clash
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"Battle in Seattle" is a docu-style chronicle of the momentus, epic, earth-shattering events that occurred there in 1999. Um . . . what were they again?
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Samuel L. Jackson’s ‘Terrace’ performance undercut by director LaBute’s cop-out plot
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Not long into "Lakeview Terrace," I was thinking about Jesse Jackson's open-mike comments about Barack Obama. It wasn't like I was bored. Far from it. I was engrossed in the movie's central character - a black man (Samuel J. Jackson) who resents the interracial couple next door - and I was trying to account for his resentment.
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‘Ghost Town’ a lively comedy
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I would have bet that Hollywood would botch the job of finding the right project for offbeat Brit comic Ricky Gervais, but "Ghost Town" proved me wrong.
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