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Review - HBO's Grey Gardens by The Hot Blog

Grey Gardens , the feature film on HBO that premieres this weekend, is a mixed bag. Jessica Lange is perfection. Drew Barrymore does some of her best work ever in a dramatic role that hooks into her personal flamboyance and sadness. But the film, which...
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Review – 17 Again by The Hot Blog

Zac Efron is cute. Leslie Mann is cute. Thomas Lennon is Tony Randall. Can I stop there? Michelle Trachtenberg, at 23, is getting a little creepy playing 17-year-old goth virgins, though it certainly is not her fault that she has perfect skin and young...
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Review - State of Play by The Hot Blog

State of Play sets itself up to be a strong contender for a now all too rare genre of film… the complicated-story but genre-simplistic morality tale as a thriller. Lumet to Pakula to Pollack to Bourne. The problem with State of Play is that it fails in...
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Review - Observe & Report by The Hot Blog

How do I start this? Jody Hill… save your money. The clock is ticking on this spectacularly overrated writer/director. He just got a second season pick-up for the mediocre Eastbound & Down. Observe & Report is coming out with some love from the...
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Wiseman @AFI Dallas by The Hot Blog

One doesn't expect "Domestic Violence, Pt 1" to be so refreshing. But Frederick Wiseman's 2001 six and a half hour document of a shelter in Tampa, FL is so square that it's spectacularly hip in this era of the Look At Me doc. No...
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Another Watchmen Review by The Hot Blog

From the great Kyle C
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The Watchmen Review (98% spoiler-free) by The Hot Blog

The Watchmen pre-game checklist is, indeed, the buzz of many writers. But after seeing the film, not so much. Big blue ***? Not that big a deal, albeit utterly unnecessary. Ultraviolence? Not for kids, and interestingly one of the areas where Mr. Snyder...
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Return To The Dark Knight by The Hot Blog

One of the blog commenters can't seem to separate why Slumdog won from why The Dark Knight was not nominated. In response, I found myself explaining my TDK issues – which are not nearly as severe as he constantly claims – in yet another way… so I...
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Top Ten 2008 by The Hot Blog

I haven’t exactly rushed out my 2008 Top Ten list. Really, I just didn’t much feel like it. There are plenty of movies I truly admire, but somehow, my passion is just not inflamed as it should be at the end of the year. Here are 21 runners up: Battle...
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Seven Pounds by The Hot Blog

I really don’t feel like reviewing Seven Pounds today. I’m not sure that I will feel like reviewing it any day soon. Why? Because it is a “feel” movie, not an “intellectualize” movie. As a result, I have been explaining, in private conversations since...
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Review - Valkyrie by The Hot Blog

The problem with Valkyrie is really simple… it was a terrible idea when they started and nothing that a large group of very talented people did could overcome the core problem of this story. It’s a movie about a vain loser that doesn’t want to be about...
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A Ben Button Quickie by The Hot Blog

I want to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button again before really digging into it. (Idiots who think that "yay" or "nay" is the same as a review deserve the shallow level of thought they embody.) That said, what is intensely striking...
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Review - The Trouble With AUSTRALIA by The Hot Blog

I love Luhrmann. I do. I think he is one of those directors who has incredibly good taste, loves to walk on the tightrope without a net (his logo at the top of Australia includes the line – paraphrased – “A Life Live Without Risk Is A Life Only Half Lived...
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The Two Big Take Homes Of IDFA by The Hot Blog

The films here in Amsterdam have been quite good. I am sad to be headed home before seeing more of them… many, many intriguing titles will turn up in the second half. But the two clear home runs for me were nearly back to back. Both were, not shockingly...
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Review - Bland, James Bland by The Hot Blog

I don’t actually a lot to say about the new James Bond movie. It is, more than any other Bond (except Moonraker , I suppose) a sequel. The Bond catchphrases are gone. Sex is downplayed. Etc, etc, etc. But I really had just one major problem with the film...
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