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May 19th, 2008 at 12:03pm
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The biggest star of this latest Indy film: Steven Spielberg.
It’s the summer’s most anticipated film, the latest in a beloved series that’s earned $1.2 billion in worldwide ticket sales. Add in a premiere at the most prestigious of international film festivals, and the wonder of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” is that it avoids being an anticlimax and is entertaining in its own right.
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May 16th, 2008 at 04:02pm
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian succeeds not by duplicating The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but by building on it, taking what could have just been “Battle for the Planet of Narnia” and instilling it with spiritual lessons about faith, courage and service.
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May 16th, 2008 at 12:03pm
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Norwegian director Joachim Trier captures youth in all its idealistic glory.
For all their emphasis on the youth market, American movies have never done a good job of portraying actual youth. The idea that young equals dumb prevails — never mind that it’s about the only time in life when reading Foucault or sitting through a Tarkovsky double feature is a viable task. What Hollywood tends to ignore is perhaps the central project of late adolescence and early adulthood — the avid, voracious creation of identity through books, movies, music and cultural hero-worship.
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May 16th, 2008 at 12:03pm
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Chris Eigeman’s character study starring Famke Janssen and newcomer Jaymie Dornan is well acted but without purpose.
ACTOR-TURNED-DIRECtor Chris Eigeman is perhaps best known for his roles as the spiky preppy from Whit Stillman’s 1990s lockjaw trilogy (”Metropolitan,” “Barcelona” and “The Last Days of Disco”), a persona he has more or less reprised in turns on the “Gilmore Girls” and “The Treatment,” in which he costarred with Famke Janssen. So it comes as a surprise to discover that his first film as a director dwells in a different social stratum entirely.
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May 16th, 2008 at 12:03pm
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“Roman de Gare” — a witty yet ultimately poignant guessing game in which nobody is quite what he or she seems — is arguably Claude Lelouch’s best film. Its title translates as “airport novel,” and Lelouch pays homage to the lure of those high adventures by mining one of his typically extravagant plots for both humor and pathos, raising provocative questions of identity and of the confusion of truth and fiction.
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May 16th, 2008 at 12:03pm
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It’s a darker alternate world for the heroic Pevensie clan this time, but everything unfolds in an assured, kid-friendly manner.
“THINGS never happen the same way twice,” Aslan the all powerful says in “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,” :-prince-caspian and although the lion king is referring to the ways of the world, he might be talking about this film as well.
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May 16th, 2008 at 12:03pm
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Tim Robbins’s David is looking for a little peace and quiet.
“Noise” is a weird, crazy, grabby little movie that thinks big thoughts. A comedy of ideas written and directed by Henry Bean (”The Believer”), it stars a hilarious and hefty (in a good way, his self-assured charisma is infinitely expanding) Tim Robbins as a New York bourgeois who, radicalized by the suffering caused him by the ear-splitting din of the city, transforms himself into a self-styled noise-vigilante called “The Rectifier.”
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May 15th, 2008 at 12:01pm
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Iron Man has good graphics and dialogue but is hard to control. Speed Racer is dull racing on color overload.
Ah, May! The weather gets a little warmer, high school kids nervously attend their proms and the movie studios begin to release their would-be blockbusters, eager to start the summer box-office rush early.
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May 12th, 2008 at 12:05pm
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Immigration, as seen through the lens of one Indian family.
“I for India” is a surprisingly delicate, quietly emotional documentary look at the experiences of one Indian family that immigrated to England in the 1960s.
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May 10th, 2008 at 12:05am
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Iron Man is a film of both fun and substance, whose imperfect hero struggles to be on the right side in a violent and complex world.
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