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Movie Review: “Polisse” – a complexly layered and often emotionally devastating film

Thursday, May 17th, 2012
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4.5

As an unofficial policy, I try to avoid reading reviews of films that I intend on reviewing myself, so when I was told that the Jury prize at Cannes in 2011 was awarded to a French film about a group of police who deal with child abuse cases, I assumed it would be a gritty procedural, maybe a French Law & Order: SVU.  Of course, assumptions are often wrong, leaving me completely unprepared for director/co-writer/actress Maïwenn’s Polisse.  What she has [...]

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Movie Review: “Tormented” – AKA “Rabbit Horror 3D” – at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
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3.5

Initially armed with the tremendous title Rabbit Horror 3D (tell me you wouldn’t run out to see that immediately), this 3D Japanese horror was inexplicably renamed to the bland Tormented for Western audiences.  Directed by Takashi Shimizu (the twisted mind that brought us the terrifying Ju-on series — as well as its boring American remake The Grudge), this surreal, fantasy/horror blends elements from a number of children’s films such as Alice in Wonderland and The Little Mermaid, but it’s final [...]

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Movie Review: “Where Do We Go Now?” – a pleasant surprise.

Friday, May 11th, 2012
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4.5

It is not often that a film surprises me; it is certainly not often that a foreign, drama, comedy, musical, surprises me. However, director/writer/actress, Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now?  does just that;  it surprises its audience with its wit, beauty, humor, sorrow and cleverness. There are not many directors  that could pull off a film as complex. The best way to describe the film: part comedy, part drama, a little bit of good old fashioned romance film — think Casablanca, a bit Disney “happily [...]

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Movie Review: “Girl in Progress”

Friday, May 11th, 2012
Movie Review: “Girl in Progress”
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Coming of age stories are a dime-a-dozen. Sure, each story tries to come up with its own unique twist, but oftentimes this twist can feel a bit put on and detached from reality. However, every once in a while a unique story comes along and hits home. Either due its clever quirkiness — think Juno –, or the way in which it captures the grittiness of reality — think Thirteen. Patricia Riggen’s (Under the Same Moon) Girl in Progress tells a coming-of-age [...]

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Movie Review: Bobcat Goldthwait’s “God Bless America” – A perversely wicked, yet often insightful dark comedy

Thursday, May 10th, 2012
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So you’re looking for a parking space in a busy lot, and you see a douchebag who has just parked his sports car in the very center of two spots.  Do you A) roll down your window and politely ask him to move; B) roll down your window, flip him off and openly call him a douchebag; or C) leave your window up, flip him off where he can’t actually see your hand and curse just loud enough to get out [...]

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Movie Review: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “I Wish”

Thursday, May 10th, 2012
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When approached to make a film centered on a new high-speed train opening on the island of Kyushu, award-winning Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda (Nobody Knows; Still Walking) first thought of the image of boys walking on railroad tracks in the film Stand by Me.  It’s a classic image, and one that clearly had an influence on the appearance of the final product, as well as its premise of children on a journey of discovery, but to compare Kore-eda’s I Wish with Reiner’s Stand by Me beyond [...]

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