Nicky Falkof

Latest Film Reviews

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  Milwaukee, Minnesota (2003)

  Review preview for Milwaukee, Minnesota

  It fails as a portrait of small-town American life; it fails as a comedy; it fails as a drama.

  Mentally defective angling champ becomes the target for itinerant criminals.
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  Pretty Persuasion (2005)

  A clever girl in a Beverly Hills private school has no inhibitions about causing emotional havoc.
• Time Of Favor (2000)

  Review preview for Time Of Favor

  Rather than engage with the rightness or wrongness of the Israeli position... the film gives life, colour and moral variation to a people often portrayed as monolithic in their agreement.

  Love, loss and betrayal in a religious Jewish community.
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  Carmen (2003)

  Review preview for Carmen

  As sleek and accomplished as this film is, the characters are essentially archetypical cut-outs, a retread of things we've seen so many times before.

  Spanish retelling of the classic tale of passion and jealousy.
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  The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)

  Twisted tale of motherly love gone oh so very wrong.
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  Wild At Heart (1990)

  Review preview for Wild At Heart

  The meandering pace can get tedious at times, but cinematically it's a masterpiece.

  Sailor and Lula go on the run, after Lula's mum bids to kill her daughter's beau.
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  The Sound Of Music (1965)

  Review preview for The Sound Of Music

  Boy meets nun, boy loses nun, boy marries nun, boy and nun go on the run.

  Julie Andrews climbs every mountain in the record-breaking World War II-ish musical.