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A disappointing and frankly implausible romance whose author doesn’t seem to have his heart in it
The latest in this year’s spate of Bush-bashing documentaries goes after Karl Rove
What? You don’t buy Angelina Jolie in the role of Sherlock Holmes, the FBI’s ace sleuth who falls for a serial killer? Too bad. Warner Brothers and D.J. Caruso think you’ll go see it anyway.
An unintentional experiment by the National Endowment for the Arts to show that any time you put war and “art” together you get anti-war propaganda
True, it’s not as bad as American Beauty, Sam Mendes’s earlier film, but it’s still quite bad enough.
SLC Punk is another teen movie, but one with a serious purpose that is not lost sight of in the first five minutes. Obviously based on the personal experience of the writer-director James Merendino, it presents us with the inherently comic picture of a post-high school punk rocker, called Stevo (Matthew Lillard), and the not…