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  • Review:American, The (2010)

    Sunday - February 27, 2011
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    What Worked? Assassins are like the Grim Reaper personified; cold, merciless and persistent. In the American, we are invited into the wrenchingly...

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  • Review:Black Swan (2010)

    Sunday - February 27, 2011
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    Aronofsky displays a beautiful hell made of mirrors from the perspective of an overly-obsessive, dying soul with vicious tenacity, producing an...

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  • Review:Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

    Friday - February 25, 2011
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    What Worked? Welcome to the Forest Whitaker and Jim Jarmusch show. In Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Forest Whitaker plays the title character to...

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  • Review:Four Lions (2010)

    Wednesday - February 23, 2011
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    What Worked? No subject is safe from comedic scrutinization. Charlie Chaplin ridiculed Adolf Hitler and Nazism with the Great Dictator in 1940,...

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  • Review:Animal Factory (2000)

    Wednesday - February 23, 2011
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    What Worked? Mainstream prison flicks usually turn up the rebellious glamour of being locked up, but Steve Buscemi’s Animal Factory strips down...

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  • Review:Believer, The (2001)

    Tuesday - February 22, 2011
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    What Worked? Mesmerizing, powerful, and important; these are the words that are slapped onto film posters and inserted into trailers time and time...

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  • Review:Due Date (2010)

    Tuesday - February 22, 2011
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    What Worked? Obviously inspired by the John Hughes classic, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Due Date does not strike quite the same note.  The Todd...

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  • Review:Aliens (1986)

    Tuesday - February 22, 2011
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    What worked? G.I Joes with parental advisory patches are dropped into what was initially a horror film, taking on the big bad wolves,  and making an...

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