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How I Ended This Summer (Alexei Popogrebsky)

review: Kak ya provyol etim letom, Saturday 13. March 2010, 20:43

Alexei Popogrebsky: How I Ended This Summer (2010)--New Directors/New Film series Trout fishing gone wrong 8/10 "How I Ended This Summer:" it's not a serious title but a mocking one, in bad Russian grammar, like something scrawled ...

El secreto de sus ojos, comment, Saturday 13. March 2010, 20:34

A very timely review: I am wondering also why this won over not only The Prophet but also The White ...

Blue-chip corn: Lasse Hallström's DEAR JOHN, comment, Monday 15. February 2010, 04:16

You're absolutely right. Hallstrom is not a great director, hence Tony Scott's phrase "blue-chip hack." Some of his movies are ...

Blue-chip corn: Lasse Hallström's DEAR JOHN

review: Dear John, Friday 12. February 2010, 00:54

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/2124/dearjohnmovieimagechann.jpg Nicolas Sparks is a perennially popular novelist who specializes in weepy tales of star-crossed lovers. He's written fifteen. The Notebook became a movie. So did A Walk to Remember. And Message in a Bottle. And Nights in Rodanthe. Now ...

michuk Monday 15. February 2010, 02:47

Even in case of his well-received films I found them ...

ChrisKnipp Monday 15. February 2010, 04:16

You're absolutely right. Hallstrom is not a great director, hence ...

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THE ROAD (John Hillcoat 2009), comment, Saturday 16. January 2010, 00:35

THE ROAD has not received rave reviews in the US. It's Metacrit score is 64, which means "generally favorable." However ...

THE ROAD (John Hillcoat 2009)

review: The Road, Tuesday 05. January 2010, 23:48

http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2008/08/07/road-mortensen.jpg Hollywood likes the world to end with a bang. In the Australian director John Hillcoat's The Road, adapted quite faithfully from Cormac McCarthy's 2006 novel, it's ending with a whimper. This is an authentically post-apocalyptic situation, an Endgame worthy ...

michuk Friday 15. January 2010, 20:23

Chris, we never really agreed on many movies but here ...

ChrisKnipp Saturday 16. January 2010, 00:35

THE ROAD has not received rave reviews in the US. ...

michuk Saturday 16. January 2010, 03:02

Chris, I was expecting more or less exactly what I ...

suaterdem Monday 18. January 2010, 19:25

great

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Shock and awe: separating the beauty from the hype in AVATAR, comment, Tuesday 05. January 2010, 23:37

I meant to rate it highly for technical innovation, use of image capture, CGI, 3D, etc. etc., but non-innovative in ...

Shock and awe: separating the beauty from the hype in AVATAR

review: Avatar, Saturday 19. December 2009, 14:42

'Avatar' is a fancy word -- an appropriate one, I guess, for a movie that is both awesome and silly. As the movie explains, it's a Hindu term for the incarnation of a god on earth. But actually, just as ...

forteller Thursday 24. December 2009, 11:27

Great review, even though I'd liked to see a bit ...

michuk Thursday 24. December 2009, 13:44

This is even more the case for films like <a ...

JeffreyVC Monday 28. December 2009, 17:02

Nice review. Your scores don't seem like they match your ...

michuk Monday 28. December 2009, 22:50

True, I was also a little bit surprised that after ...

ChrisKnipp Tuesday 05. January 2010, 23:37

I meant to rate it highly for technical innovation, use ...

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PRECIOUS is the best movie I've seen this year, comment, Saturday 19. December 2009, 14:30

PRECIOUS won the audience and grand jury prizes at Sundance but it was not a "huge winner at Cannes." It ...

Wajda's "Katyń": A Missed Chance, comment, Monday 28. September 2009, 20:46

Since you're incorporated our discussion into your review and give a link to my double review, I don't really have ...