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| x Review of Burning Plain, The at www.filmthreat.com | In The Burning Plain, another directorial debut, sensationalism is on order, but its buttressed by fear, suffering, and desire – the schizo-blend that makes Arriaga's scripts so unique. | The Burning Plain | Guillermo Arriaga | ||
| Kim Basinger | |||||
| The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | |||||
| J.D. Pardo | |||||
| Joaquim de Almeida | |||||
| x Review of Burning Plain, The at www.philly.com | For a film that strives so hard to show the sheer messiness of real people's lives, Burning Plain does have an impossibly neat ending. | The Burning Plain | Joaquim de Almeida | ||
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| x Review of Burning Plain, The at rogerebert.suntimes.com | Told chronologically, it might have accumulated considerable power. Told as a labyrinthine tangle of intercut timelines and locations, it is a frustrating exercise in self-indulgence by writer-director Guillermo Arriaga. | The Burning Plain | Joaquim de Almeida | ||
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| Guillermo Arriaga | |||||
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| x Review of Burning Plain, The at www.boston.com | The best performance here comes from a Mexican child actress, Tessa Ia, as half of one of the fraught mother-daughter relationships. | The Burning Plain | Guillermo Arriaga | ||
| Kim Basinger | |||||
| Charlize Theron | |||||
| New Mexico | |||||
| x Review of Burning Plain, The at www.hollywoodreporter.com | An ambitious, visually handsome production which fails to ignite. | The Burning Plain | Jose Maria Yazpik | ||
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| Guillermo Arriaga | |||||
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| x Review of Burning Plain, The at www.variety.com | Many of the weaknesses and few of the strengths of Guillermo Arriaga as a scripter are evident in his directing debut, The Burning Plain. | The Burning Plain | Joaquim de Almeida | ||
| Babel | |||||
| New Mexico | |||||
| Guillermo Arriaga | |||||
| Jose Maria Yazpik | |||||
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| x Review of Burning Plain, The at www.avclub.com | The characters in The Burning Plain are so narrowly defined by tragedy that they reveal no other facets of humanity. | The Burning Plain | Babel | ||
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| Guillermo Arriaga | |||||
| Amores perros | |||||
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| x Review of Burning Plain, The at www.villagevoice.com | The writer's most successful works--"The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" and "Amores Perros"--were bolstered by directors who brought genuine emotion to the screen, but The Burning Plain marks Arriaga's behind-the-camera debut, and his obviousness is staggering. | The Burning Plain | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | ||
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| Guillermo Arriaga | |||||
| Amores perros | |||||
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| x Review of Burning Plain, The at newyork.timeout.com | This film’s greatest accomplishment is that its theatrical gestures manage to feel preposterous, pretentious and routine at the same time. | The Burning Plain | Joaquim de Almeida | ||
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| Guillermo Arriaga | |||||
| J.D. Pardo | |||||
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| x Review of Bright Star at www.ew.com | Campion's big-sisterly encouragement of Cornish's lovely, openhearted performance -- and Whishaw's well-matched response -- results in a character instantly, intimately recognizable to anyone remembering her own first love. | Bright Star | John Keats | ||
| Jane Campion | |||||
| Fanny Brawne | |||||
| Italy | |||||
| Ben Whishaw | |||||
| x Review of Bright Star at www.newyorker.com | What makes the movie extraordinary, however, is not so much the portrait of a poet as the accuracy and the detail of the period re-creation. | Bright Star | Ben Whishaw | ||
| John Keats | |||||
| Paul Schneider | |||||
| Abbie Cornish | |||||
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| x Review of Bright Star at movies.nytimes.com | Ms. Campion, with her restless camera movements and off-center close-ups, films history in the present tense, and her wild vitality makes this movie romantic in every possible sense of the word. | Bright Star | John Keats | ||
| Paul Schneider | |||||
| Abbie Cornish | |||||
| Jane Campion | |||||
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| x Review of Bright Star at www.hollywoodreporter.com | Bright Star may not be a joy forever but it will do until the next joy comes along. | Bright Star | Ben Whishaw | ||
| John Keats | |||||
| Paul Schneider | |||||
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| x Review of Bright Star at www.variety.com | Breaking through any period-piece mustiness with piercing insight into the emotions and behavior of her characters, the writer-director examines the final years in the short life of 19th-century romantic poet John Keats through the eyes of his beloved, Fanny Brawne, played by Abbie Cornish in an outstanding performance. | Bright Star | Ben Whishaw | ||
| Paul Schneider | |||||
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| London | |||||
| Mark Bradshaw | |||||
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| x Review of Bright Star at www.avclub.com | It’s a studied movie that gives itself over to bursts of intensity, and between them sometimes threatens to become as spellbound by its subjects as they become with each other. | Bright Star | John Keats | ||
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| x Review of Bright Star at nymag.com | Young Edie Martin, with her chaotic swarm of red ringlets and deadpan dutifulness (she has few lines, but they’re goodies), is the movie’s sign of eternal spring--the butterfly atop the just-opened blossom. | Bright Star | Ben Whishaw | ||
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| Paul Schneider | |||||
| Abbie Cornish | |||||
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| x Review of Bright Star at www.nypost.com | Catnip for the art-house crowd. | Bright Star | John Keats | ||
| Paul Schneider | |||||
| Abbie Cornish | |||||
| Jane Campion | |||||
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| x Review of Bright Star at www.rollingstone.com | Bright Star is the New Zealand writer-director's raw, sensual attempt to render Keats as experienced by a young girl who couldn't understand the genius of his verse. | Bright Star | John Keats | ||
| Paul Schneider | |||||
| Abbie Cornish | |||||
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| x Review of Bright Star at www.villagevoice.com | It's more conventionally romantic than wildly Romantic--but no less touching for that. | Bright Star | John Keats | ||
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| x Review of Bright Star at newyork.timeout.com | Writer-director Jane Campion approaches the tale with an artiste’s respectful solemnity, but it too often comes off like "Twilight" transplanted across oceans and centuries. | Bright Star | Paul Schneider | ||
| Abbie Cornish | |||||
| Jane Campion | |||||
| Ben Whishaw | |||||
| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at movies.nytimes.com | A B-movie-style throwback that’s consistently diverting and blissfully free of morals and messages, A Perfect Getaway is just the thing for the summertime movie blahs: it’s a genuinely satisfying cheap thrill. | A Perfect Getaway | Timothy Olyphant | ||
| Steve Zahn | |||||
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| The Chronicles of Riddick | |||||
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| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at www.sfgate.com | A clever, heart-pounding thriller, and a welcome return to form for the director. | A Perfect Getaway | Hawaii | ||
| Vin Diesel | |||||
| Steve Zahn | |||||
| The Chronicles of Riddick | |||||
| Kiele Sanchez | |||||
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| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at www.theglobeandmail.com | Benefits from one standout performance: Timothy Olyphant ( Deadwood ) plays the part of Nick with ingratiating comic relish. | A Perfect Getaway | Hawaii | ||
| Kiele Sanchez | |||||
| Steve Zahn | |||||
| The Fugitive | |||||
| David Twohy | |||||
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| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at www.oregonlive.com | If you're willing to have your patience tested, Twohy and his cast reward it. | A Perfect Getaway | Hawaii | ||
| Timothy Olyphant | |||||
| Steve Zahn | |||||
| Chris Hemsworth | |||||
| Kiele Sanchez | |||||
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| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at rogerebert.suntimes.com | The plot will require some discussion after the film is over. Is it misleading? Yes. Does it cheat? I think not. It only seems to cheat. That’s part of the effect. All’s fair in love and war, and the plots of thrillers. | A Perfect Getaway | Hawaii | ||
| Timothy Olyphant | |||||
| Steve Zahn | |||||
| Chris Hemsworth | |||||
| David Twohy | |||||
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| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at www.villagevoice.com | A Perfect Getaway is never great, but Twohy isn't aspiring for greatness--he's after gritty and lively and weird. And that's good enough. | A Perfect Getaway | Hawaii | ||
| Timothy Olyphant | |||||
| Steve Zahn | |||||
| Chris Hemsworth | |||||
| Kiele Sanchez | |||||
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| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at www.latimes.com | To Twohy's credit, he does a decent job of keeping you guessing -- and interested -- until almost the very end. | A Perfect Getaway | Hawaii | ||
| Timothy Olyphant | |||||
| Steve Zahn | |||||
| Chris Hemsworth | |||||
| Kiele Sanchez | |||||
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| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at www.variety.com | A big-reveal thriller with surprises that really do surprise -- and are worth waiting for through an audaciously long buildup -- A Perfect Getaway finds writer-director David Twohy in popcorn form with a muscularity not seen since 2000's "Pitch Black." | A Perfect Getaway | Hawaii | ||
| Timothy Olyphant | |||||
| Chris Hemsworth | |||||
| Kiele Sanchez | |||||
| Mark Plummer | |||||
| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at www.washingtonpost.com | While A Perfect Getaway, like "The Sixth Sense," recaps itself, to indicate to the audience what they may have missed (and when), there seems to be plot holes large enough that one could paddle through them in an outrigger canoe. | A Perfect Getaway | |||
| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at www.chicagoreader.com | Writer-director David Twohy (Pitch Black) serves up mechanical thrills culminating in a bogus twist ending. | A Perfect Getaway | Timothy Olyphant | ||
| Steve Zahn | |||||
| Chris Hemsworth | |||||
| Kiele Sanchez | |||||
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| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at www.ew.com | Steve Zahn makes full use of the many varieties of hyper in his acting arsenal, while Timothy Olyphant has a heckuva good time telegraphing macho mania. | A Perfect Getaway | Hawaii | ||
| Timothy Olyphant | |||||
| Steve Zahn | |||||
| Puerto Rico | |||||
| Kiele Sanchez | |||||
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| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at www.avclub.com | Even if you know what’s coming, it’s a neat bit of meta-thriller filmmaking, as much about the mechanics of storytelling as a reasonably satisfying example of it. | A Perfect Getaway | Hawaii | ||
| The Arrival | |||||
| Timothy Olyphant | |||||
| Steve Zahn | |||||
| Kiele Sanchez | |||||
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| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com | When the story’s twist arrives, you half-expect Twohy to throw in a couple of reels from "Dead Again," plus outtakes from "The Usual Suspects." It’s a lulu; I'm just not sure if it's the sort of lulu that will lead to great word-of-mouth. | A Perfect Getaway | Timothy Olyphant | ||
| Steve Zahn | |||||
| Chris Hemsworth | |||||
| Puerto Rico | |||||
| Kiele Sanchez | |||||
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| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at www.boston.com | A Perfect Getaway may not play fair by the audience but at least it cheats honestly. These days that's something. | A Perfect Getaway | Steve Zahn | ||
| Chris Hemsworth | |||||
| Kiele Sanchez | |||||
| David Twohy | |||||
| Milla Jovovich | |||||
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| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at www.reelviews.net | Just a run-of-the-mill slasher/thriller. | A Perfect Getaway | Hawaii | ||
| Timothy Olyphant | |||||
| Steve Zahn | |||||
| Chris Hemsworth | |||||
| Kiele Sanchez | |||||
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| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at www.usatoday.com | For a thriller of its kind, it's a lively and slick summer escape. | A Perfect Getaway | Kiele Sanchez | ||
| Timothy Olyphant | |||||
| Steve Zahn | |||||
| Chris Hemsworth | |||||
| Milla Jovovich | |||||
| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at www.nypost.com | Twohy serves up a hard-to-swallow second-act twist and an unconvincing back story, but the slightly overlong A Perfect Getaway recovers with a pulse-pounding climax. | A Perfect Getaway | Timothy Olyphant | ||
| Steve Zahn | |||||
| Chris Hemsworth | |||||
| The Chronicles of Riddick | |||||
| Kiele Sanchez | |||||
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| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at www.miamiherald.com | For a low-brow, psycho-on-the-loose-in-paradise thriller, A Perfect Getaway is surprisingly entertaining. | A Perfect Getaway | Hawaii | ||
| Tucker Tooley | |||||
| Steve Zahn | |||||
| The Chronicles of Riddick | |||||
| Kiele Sanchez | |||||
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| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at www.hollywoodreporter.com | It's still a gimmicky, tricked-out tale that is all too self-aware. But the film does keep you guessing and probably guessing wrong. | A Perfect Getaway | Hawaii | ||
| Timothy Olyphant | |||||
| Steve Zahn | |||||
| Chris Hemsworth | |||||
| Puerto Rico | |||||
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| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at www.stltoday.com | More scenic than scary. | A Perfect Getaway | |||
| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at www.austinchronicle.com | A Perfect Getaway is, in its own delightfully silly and manipulative way, one of the most effective paranoid thrillers of the new millennium. That doesn't make it a great movie by a long shot. | A Perfect Getaway | Hawaii | ||
| The Arrival | |||||
| Waterworld | |||||
| Vin Diesel | |||||
| Mark Plummer | |||||
| x Review of Perfect Getaway, A at www.nydailynews.com | The result isn't deadly dull, but it does turn what should have been a most dangerous game into a basic scenery-chewing contest. | A Perfect Getaway | Timothy Olyphant | ||
| Hawaii | |||||
| Pitch Black | |||||
| David Twohy | |||||
| x Review of Paper Heart at www.filmthreat.com | Cera once again does his "Michael Cera thing." Personally, I love his "thing" but know it’s not for everyone, and I agree that it doesn’t always work contextually. But trust me, here it really works. | Paper Heart | Michael Cera | ||
| x Review of Paper Heart at www.ew.com | The movie's hide-and-seek attitude toward truth mirrors the intricacies of one lover getting to know another -- an arresting notion of the heart that's much more than paper-deep. | Paper Heart | Charlyne Yi | ||
| Knocked Up | |||||
| Michael Cera | |||||
| Jake Johnson | |||||
| x Review of Paper Heart at rogerebert.suntimes.com | A quasi-documentary about love that is sweet, true and perhaps a little deceptive. | Paper Heart | Charlyne Yi | ||
| Michael Cera | |||||
| Nicholas Jasenovec | |||||
| x Review of Paper Heart at www.rollingstone.com | Enjoying this wondrous wisp of a something is easy, describing it is hard. Luckily, Charlyne Yi is an enchantress. | Paper Heart | Charlyne Yi | ||
| Knocked Up | |||||
| Michael Cera | |||||
| Jake Johnson | |||||
| x Review of Paper Heart at www.usatoday.com | Doesn't always have a clear path, but that is part of its meandering appeal. It asks if true love exists, then renders it a rhetorical question. | Paper Heart | Charlyne Yi | ||
| Michael Cera | |||||
| x Review of Paper Heart at www.calendarlive.com | At best, they entertain in a "people say the darndest things" kind of way. But they do support the notion that people still fall in love and find a way to make it work for a lifetime, which is about as happy an ending as you could wish for. | Paper Heart | Charlyne Yi | ||
| Los Angeles | |||||
| Michael Cera | |||||
| Jake Johnson | |||||
| x Review of Paper Heart at www.oregonlive.com | Paper Heart isn't the most cloying instance of earnest indie quirk to emerge in the past few months, nor is it the most charming, but the mere fact that such a continuum exists is reason enough to worry. | Paper Heart | Charlyne Yi | ||
| Texas | |||||
| Michael Cera | |||||
| Seth Rogen | |||||
| x Review of Paper Heart at www.csmonitor.com | It's all kind of silly and amorphous, but the scenes between Yi and Cera, whether or not they were scripted, have a babes-in-the-wood loveliness. | Paper Heart | Charlyne Yi | ||
| Knocked Up | |||||
| Michael Cera | |||||
| Nicholas Jasenovec | |||||
| x Review of Paper Heart at www.stltoday.com | This movie may be sickly sweet, but it's harmless; and as a handcrafted antidote to a toxic toy story like "G.I.Joe," Paper Heart has healing properties. | Paper Heart | |||
| x Review of Paper Heart at www.boston.com | The movie’s a platypus: cute as the dickens but what the heck is it? | Paper Heart | Charlyne Yi | ||
| Michael Cera | |||||
| Nicholas Jasenovec | |||||
| x Review of Paper Heart at www.hollywoodreporter.com | A "hybrid documentary" that bemusedly blurs the line between fact and fiction. | Paper Heart | Las Vegas | ||
| Charlyne Yi | |||||
| Atlanta | |||||
| Elise Salomon | |||||
| Jake Johnson | |||||
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| x Review of Paper Heart at www.nydailynews.com | While Cera is adorable, Yi’s faux naiveté is overplayed and her philosophical musings are underwhelming. But you won’t soon forget the real-life couples she interviews. | Paper Heart | Charlyne Yi | ||
| Michael Bay | |||||
| Michael Cera | |||||
| x Review of Paper Heart at www.salon.com | At times, the relentless preciousness, the ironic distance, the posture of "We're just adorably like this" gets to be a little too much. | Paper Heart | Superbad | ||
| Demetri Martin | |||||
| Charlyne Yi | |||||
| Atlanta | |||||
| Jake Johnson | |||||
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| x Review of Paper Heart at www.reelviews.net | The end product feels trite and unfinished, with the romantic plot being awkwardly and unconvincingly shoehorned into a production that lacks focus. | Paper Heart | Los Angeles | ||
| Knocked Up | |||||
| Michael Cera | |||||
| Las Vegas | |||||
| x Review of Paper Heart at www.austinchronicle.com | It's a neat, sweet experiment in meta-documentary filmmaking overall, but like Yi's own heart, it sabotages itself in the process and becomes another casualty of too-close scrutiny. | Paper Heart | Knocked Up | ||
| Michael Cera | |||||
| x Review of Paper Heart at www.variety.com | There may be a fairly sharp line dividing those who find the whole delightfully odd, and those irked by what could be read as a faux childlike simplicity to the enterprise. | Paper Heart | Superbad | ||
| Charlyne Yi | |||||
| Atlanta | |||||
| Los Angeles | |||||
| Michael Cera | |||||
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| x Review of Paper Heart at www.villagevoice.com | A documentary except when it's a mockumentary, this is all kinds of adorable and heartbreaking--the doc part, at least. | Paper Heart | Seth Rogen | ||
| Charlyne Yi | |||||
| Michael Cera | |||||
| Knocked Up | |||||
| Nicholas Jasenovec | |||||
| x Review of Paper Heart at www.theglobeandmail.com | This breach with the audience does matter, for it is one thing to seduce your viewers and quite another to trick them. Love is all about trust, after all. | Paper Heart | Seth Rogen | ||
| Charlyne Yi | |||||
| Michael Cera | |||||
| Juno | |||||
| Nicholas Jasenovec | |||||
