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Latest Film Reviews

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  Food, Inc. (2008)

  Review preview for Food, Inc.

  The subject is much too large and diverse to cram into 94 minutes, but Kenner spends his time wisely, ramming home bullet points with irrefutable evidence and impressive research.

  A documentary looking at the state of the US food industry.
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  Sunshine Cleaning (2008)

  Review preview for Sunshine Cleaning

  While Adams and Blunt scrabble for subtext and a depth that simply isn’t there, the movie congeals around them.

  Two sisters try to forge a career in crime scene clean-up.
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  Blood Simple (1984)

  Review preview for Blood Simple

  Brilliantly original.

  A rich man hires a private detective to kill his wife and her lover, but things don't go quite to plan.
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  JCVD (2008)

  Review preview for JCVD

  The best scenes in JCVD have a loose playfulness that redeems the angst.

  The Muscles from Brussels thrusts his personal life into the spotlight.
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  Let The Right One In (2008)

  Review preview for Let The Right One In

  Poignant, pensive and surprisingly poetic, Let the Right One In unspools with subtle psychological complexity.

  A touching story of first romance... with a side-serving of horror.
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  Synecdoche, New York (2008)

  Review preview for Synecdoche, New York

  Mainstream audiences may hate and critics may debate, but Synecdoche is a work of unmitigated, undisciplined genius.

  The story of a theatre director's drive to produce his masterwork.
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  American Teen (2008)

  Review preview for American Teen

  Like a succubus, Burstein simply attaches herself to the teens’ volatile emotions; it never seems to occur to her to pull back and examine a larger, more nuanced canvas.

  The kids are not all right.
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  Then She Found Me (2007)

  Review preview for Then She Found Me

  A fertility flick for women whose feet and minds seldom leave the stirrups.

  A childless teacher takes stock of her life after her husband leaves, her adoptive mum dies and her birth mother shows up.
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  Redbelt (2008)

  Review preview for Redbelt

  Both gripping morality tale and satisfying thriller.

  A martial arts instructor who has avoided prize-fighting to maintain his ethical code, finds debt may force him into the ring.
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  Starting Out In The Evening (2007)

  Review preview for Starting Out In The Evening

  In scenes filled with wit and intelligence, Langella and Ambrose perform an exquisite dance of power.

  A grad student convinces an ageing writer to let her write a thesis on him.

Features

• Life and Death in New Jersey: Todd Solondz on Palindromes

  22 May 2005

  Todd Solondz, chronicler of hell in all its forms, discusses choice, change, and the illusion of free will.

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