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Review |
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Analysis |
This Week's Verdict |
Manohla Dargis,
The New York Times |
Redacted |
"And now what? What are we supposed to do? Support the troops? End the war? Push ahead to victory? Stand up for what we believe?" |
Good question. Stay tuned; hopefully the answer will appear in next week's crop of Iraq movies.
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J Hoberman,
The Village Voice |
Redacted |
"Acid flashback or déjà vu? Who, having lived through the late '60s, would have anticipated re-experiencing the spectacle of an arrogantly mendacious U.S. administration bogged down in an ill-conceived, undeclared, bungled, costly, and apparently endless counterinsurgency?" |
Whoda thunkit indeed? Now if we could only get those iPod-wearing young people to care about rioting on campuses again.
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Armond White,
New York Press |
Margot at the Wedding |
"Noah Bambauch makes it easy to dislike his films. Problem is, he also makes it easy for New York's media elite to praise them." |
Conversely, Noah Baumbach makes it easy for Armond White to be snippy.
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Carina Chocano,
L.A. Times |
Love in the Time of Cholera |
"That, after all these years of playing hard-to-get, the novel has made it to the screen in the form of a plodding, tone-deaf, overripe, overheated Oscar-baiting telenovela smacks of just the kind of deliciously ironic prank an eighty-year-old Colombian Nobel laureate could really get behind." |
Because let's face it, no matter how wrong this feels, a solemn costume drama would have been even more insufferable.
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Salon.com |
Margot at the Wedding |
"Even though Kidman claims, in the current issue of Marie Claire, that she is 'completely natural,' there's no way around the question: What has she done to her face? The question of actors (men and women) and plastic surgery is a delicate one, but at this point, it's disingenuous to pretend not to notice any change." |
Speculation regarding Nicole Kidman's blatantly obvious botox face is far more interesting than this movie will ever be.
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