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Review: Gentlemen Broncos

31 Oct 2009 07:02:00 PDT

Written by Cinematical staff
Gentlemen Broncos could have been great. It's about a teenage boy (Michael Angarano) whose fantasy novel featuring an underdog hero on a nonsensical planet (Sam Rockwell) is stolen by not only his washed-up hero author (Jemaine Clement) at a crash-course writing camp, but two insuffer...

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Fantastic Fest Review: Gentlemen Broncos

25 Sep 2009 12:32:00 PDT

Written by Peter Hall
Quirkiness only carries so far. Napoleon Dynamite, the film that ushered in the career of Gentlemen Broncos director Jared Hess, is enjoyable because it cherishes the nervous-twitches of puberty, identity crisis, and the weird kind of people who worship at Walmart strip malls. The dire...

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Review: Post Grad

21 Aug 2009 07:03:00 PDT

Written by Jeffrey M. Anderson
In comedy, there is a function known as a "straight man." Bud Abbott of Abbott and Costello and Oliver Hardy of Laurel and Hardy are the best-known examples of this. Their job is basically to be the springboard for the goofier member of the team, as well as other, more commonplace duties like r...

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Review: Miss March

13 Mar 2009 12:02:00 PDT

Written by Jeffrey M. Anderson
How they're friends is one of the movie's greatest mysteries, aside from, you know, the one about how it ever got made. These two morons react to everything with bug eyes and jaws agape, sometimes comically screaming and sometimes not. Cregger is a self-righteous, hypocrite prig, and Moor...

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Opinion: Slumdog Millionaire HD

08 Feb 2009 06:38:13 PST

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Release Date: November 12, 2008 (limited; wide: Dec. 19) Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures Director: Danny Boyle Screenwriter: Simon Beaufoy Starring: Dev Patel, Madhur Mittal, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: R (for some violen...

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Sundance Review: 500 Days of Summer

17 Jan 2009 19:56:00 PST

Written by Erik Davis
The feel-good, Fox Searchlight-y film of the festival, 500 Days of Summer is like When Harry Met Sally ... if Sally turned around and repeatedly stabbed Harry in the heart with a toothpick. It's an anti-fairytale about a boy who falls head over dress shoes for the kind of girl who doesn't believ...

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Opinion: Rourke tears it up in `The Wrestler'

22 Dec 2008 01:18:32 PST

Christian Science Monitor NJ - Small, poignant and perfect, this is the year's best film. "The Wrestler," a Fox Searchlight Pictures release, is rated R for violence, sexuality/nudity, ... The Wrestler - Movie Review h all 12 news articles

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Review: The Wrestler

17 Dec 2008 18:15:00 PST

Written by Cinematical staff
Filed under: Drama, Sports, Awards, Casting, Theatrical Reviews, Festival Reports, Celebrities and Controversy, Fox Searchlight, Oscar Watch, Toronto International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival We're reposting our review of The Wrestler form the Toronto International F...

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Opinion: Kenny Turan pins 'The Wrestler'

17 Dec 2008 13:13:01 PST

Written by LAT Blogs
If you're running an Oscar campaign for a low-budget movie that needs all the help it can get from rave reviews, as Fox Searchlight is doing right now with "The Wrestler," the very last thing you want in life is... Photo of Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler" by Niko Tavernise / Fox Searchlight

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Movie Review: Million Dollar Baby

12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PST

In this image released by Fox Searchlight pictures, Dev Patel, left, and Anil Kapoor are shown in a scene from "Slumdog Millionaire." Given its recent history, Mumbai is a city in need of a valentine – even one as warts-and-all gritty as "Slumdog Millionaire."

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Opinion: Slumdog Millionaire

24 Nov 2008 10:09:47 PST

Written by Brian
Strangely, Slumdog Millionaire feels both like a step up in some respects while also more of the same in others. It’s a film about a young Indian man, Jamal, who grows up in desperate poverty to become a grand prize contestant on the TV game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” One question aw...

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Opinion: Grapple with This: the Trailer for 'The Wrestler'

20 Nov 2008 16:51:00 PST

Written by Eric D. Snider
It paid off, too -- the acclaim for the film was nearly universal. (Read Cinematical's James Rocchi's rave review here.) Now, in advance of the film's limited release on Dec. 31 (just in time to qualify for Rourke's inevitable Oscar nomination), Fox Searchlight has released the first trail...

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TIFF Review: The Wrestler

08 Sep 2008 19:02:00 PDT

Written by James Rocchi
But don't believe the hype -- or, more importantly, look past it; if a complicated, messy personal life were all it took to deliver a great performance, Paris Hilton and O.J. Simpson would have more Oscars than Katharine Hepburn. Rourke's work as Randy is physical, invested, powerful and sp...

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Opinion: WB and Fox Searchlight Team Up to Release Danny Boyle's Latest

29 Aug 2008 16:33:00 PDT

Written by Eric D. Snider
Slumdog Millionaire, about a Mumbai street kid who strikes it rich on an Indian game show before having his knowledge called into question, will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next week. And now it'll hit multiplexes, too, on Nov. 28, thanks to a deal hammered out this...

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Opinion: Indie Weekend Box Office: 'The Visitor' Beats Out 'Young At Heart'

14 Apr 2008 07:02:00 PDT

Written by Peter Martin
David Ayer's Street Kings (Fox Searchlight) should be included, I suppose, because it's distributed by an studio specialty division known for its indie releases, though not much about the police drama screams "indie." By the per-screen numbers, it finished third, earning an average o...

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NYFF Review: The Darjeeling Limited

27 Sep 2007 18:02:00 PDT

Written by Erik Davis
There are a couple different ways to approach reviewing The Darjeeling Limited. I can look at it from the mainstream audience's point of view, or I can look at it from the point of view of a long-time Wes Anderson fan -- which, coincidentally, I happen to be. The first thing my friend said to me a...

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Review: Joshua

07 Jul 2007 02:31:00 PDT

Written by Ryan Stewart
It's made clear early on that her character suffered some kind of off-the-charts post-partum depression after the birth of Joshua (Jacob Kogan), and as the film opens, she's just given birth to a second child, one that mom and dad silently hope will not grow to have the demeanor of an adole...

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